Everywhere resoundeth the voices of those who preach death; and the earth is full of those to whom death hath to be preached.

To go on vegetating in cowardly dependence on physicians and machinations, after the meaning of life, the right to life, has been lost, that ought to prompt a profound contempt in society.

I have learned to walk: ever since, I let myself run. I have learned to fly: ever since, I do not want to be pushed before moving along.

The devotion of the greatest is to encounter risk and danger, and play dice for death.

An artist chooses his subjects: that is the way he praises.

Many people wait throughout their whole lives for the chance to be good in their own fashion.

One hears but one does not seek; one takes -- one does not ask who gives; a thought flashes up like lightning, it comes of necessity and unfalteringly formed.