I live only because it is in my power to die when I choose to: without the idea of suicide, I'd have killed myself right away.

How good would it be if one could die by throwing oneself into an infinite void.

The capital phenomenon, the most catastrophic disaster, is uninterrupted sleeplessness, that nothingness without release.

Democracy: a festival of mediocrity.

Not to be born is undoubtedly the best plan of all. Unfortunately, it is within no one's reach.

I do nothing, granted. But I see the hours pass - which is better than trying to fill them.

After having struggled madly to solve all problems, after having suffered on the heights of despair, in the supreme hour of revelation, you will find that the only answer, the only reality, is silence.