Being in love doesn't mean loving.

I drink because I wish to multiply my sufferings.

Man is unhappy because he doesn't know he's happy. If anyone finds out he'll become happy at once.

I saw clear as daylight how strange it is that not a single person living in this mad world has had the daring to go straight for it all and send it flying to the devil! I...I wanted to have the daring...and I killed her.

But it's precisely in this cold, loathsome half-despair, half-belief, in this deliberate burying of yourself underground for forty years out of sheer pain, in this assiduously constructed, and yet somewhat dubious hopelessness, in all this poision of unfulfilled desires turned inward, this fever of vacillations, of resolutions adopted for eternity, and of repentances a moment later that you find the very essence of that strange, sharp pleasure.

Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.

There is nothing easier than lopping off heads and nothing harder than developing ideas.