The relatives of a suicide hold it against him that out of consideration for their reputation he did not remain alive.

God is a too palpably clumsy answer; an answer which shows a lack of delicacy towards us thinkers-fundamentally, even a crude prohibition to us: you shall not think!

Everyone wants to be foremost in this future-and yet death and the stillness of death are the only things certain and common to all in this future! How strange that this sole thing that is certain and common to all, exercises almost no influence on men, and that they are the furthest from regarding themselves as the brotherhood of death! It makes me happy to see that men do not want to think at all of the idea of death!

The Devil has the broadest perspectives for God; therefore, he keeps so far away from God -- the Devil being the most ancient friend of wisdom

Every philosophy is the philosophy of some stage of life.

One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.

What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.