We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place, we stay there, even though we go away. And there are things in us that we can find agai…

- Pascal Mercier

[Vanity] is an unrecognised form of stupidity, you have to forget the cosmic meaninglessness of all our acts to be able to be vain and that's a glari…

- Pascal Mercier

Human beings can't bear silence.It would mean that they would bear themselves.

- Pascal Mercier

Then there was a silence he had never before experienced: in it, you could hear the years.

- Pascal Mercier

I am still there, at that distant place in time, I never left it, but live expanded in the past, or out of it.

- Pascal Mercier

To stand by yourself -- that was also part of dignity. That way, a person could get through a public flaying with dignity. Galileo. Luther. Even some…

- Pascal Mercier

I love tunnels. They 're the symbol of hope: sometime it will be bright again. If by chance it is not night.

- Pascal Mercier

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution is a duty!

- Pascal Mercier

To live for the moment: it sounds so right and so beautiful. But the more I want to, the less I understand what it means.

- Pascal Mercier