I have pleasures, and passions, but the joy of life is gone. I am going under: the morgue yawns for me. I go and look at my zinc-bed there. After all, I had a wonderful life, which is, I fear, over.

I summed up all systems in a phrase, and all existence in an epigram.

Schopenhauer has analysed the pessimism that characterize modern thought, but Hamlet invented it

Reported as Oscar Wilde's last words on his death bed... This wallpaper is killing me. One of us has to go.

Life is too short to learn German

The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

Books are never finished, They are merely abandoned.