Discretion is deadly to genius; ruinous to talent.

Death makes no sense except to people who have passionately loved life. How can one die without having something to part from? Detachment is a negation of both life and death. Whoever has overcome his fear of death has also triumphed over life. For life is nothing but another word for this fear.

Since all life is futility, then the decision to exist must be the most irrational of all.

Better to be an animal than a man, an insect than an animal, a plant than an insect, and so on. Salvation? Whatever diminishes the kingdom of consciousness and compromises its supremacy.

An existence transfigured by failure.

We have lost, being born, as much as we shall lose dying: Everything!

A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.