Just as soon as we notice that someone has to force himself to pay attention when dealing and talking with us, we have a valid demonstration that he does not love us or that he does not love us anymore.

I love all who are like heavy drops falling one by one out of the dark cloud that lowereth over man: they herald the coming of the lightning, and succumb as heralds.

Be careful, lest in casting out your demon you exorcise the best thing in you.

Beyond Good and Evil, Aphorism 153

When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live.

Sins are indispensable to every society organized on an ecclesiastical basis; they are the only reliable weapons of power; the priest lives upon sins; it is necessary to him that there be sinning.

Narrow souls I cannot abide; There's almost no good or evil inside