I live in sin, to kill myself I live; no longer my life my own, but sin's; my good is given to me by heaven, my evil by myself, by my free will, of which I am deprived.

I live in sin, to kill myself I live; no longer my life my own, but sin's; my good is given to me by heaven, my evil by myself, by my free will, of which I am deprived.

After four tortured years, more than 400 over life-sized figures, I felt as old and as weary as Jeremiah. I was only 37, yet friends did not recognize the old man I had become.

If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.

The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.

If there is sin against life, it consists… in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.