“Astonishingly, if you will have absolutely nothing to do with suffering, suffering will have nothing to do with you.”

“I do not want to suffer, I do not have a christian concept of suffering. They tell us that suffering elevates the spirit; no suffering is something that hurts and that's all, it elevates nothing. And therefore I fear suffering. Because with regards to death, I, who in everything believe to be moderate, am absolutely radical. If we have a right to life, we have also a right to death. It rests on us, and it must be regognized the right to choose the when and the how of our own death.”

“If you could stop the suffering and dying, and didn't stop it, then you are guilty. It is your fault.
We kill no one. We do not let them kill us. We have nothing to do with them.”

“We all suffer under a curse, the curse that we know more than we can endure, and there is nothing, absolutely nothing we can do about the force and the lure of this knowledge.”

“One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.”

“If you suffer and make your loved ones suffer, there is nothing that can justify your desire.”

“Everything is nothing, but afterwards. After having suffered everything.”

“When you have something to do, do it. When you have nothing to do, sleep.”

“The people do not complain because they have no voice; do not move because they are lethargic, and you say that they do not suffer because you have not seen their hearts bleed.”

“If you are joyful, whatever you do you will do it to the hilt because you have nothing to hold back, nothing to fear, isn't it?”