To hope is to contradict the future.

Intelligence flourishes only in the ages when belief withers.

When you have understood that nothing is, that things do not even deserve the status of appearances, you no longer need to be saved, you are saved, and miserable forever.

We are so lonely in life that we must ask ourselves if the loneliness of dying is not a symbol of our human existence.

Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil.

To accomplish nothing and die of the strain

If you're unlucky enough not to have alcoholic parents, it takes you a whole lifetime of intoxication to overcome the dead weight of their virtues.