Men after death ... are understood worse than men of the moment, but heard better.

Death. The certain prospect of death could sweeten every life with a precious and fragrant drop of levity- and now you strange apothecary souls have turned it into an ill-tasting drop of poison that makes the whole of life repulsive.

The higher man is distinguished from the lower by his fearlessness and his readiness to challenge misfortune.

The preponderance of pain over pleasure is the cause of our fictitious morality and religion.

The god on the cross is a curse on life, a signpost to seek redemption from life; Dionysus cut to pieces is a promise of life: it will be eternally reborn and return again from destruction

This mother needs happy, reputable children, and that one needs unhappy ones: otherwise she cannot show her kindness as a mother.

We should be a mirror of being: we are God in miniature.