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

the costume of the nineteenth century is detestable. It is so sombre, so depressing. Sin is the only real colour-element left in modern life.

Selfishness is not living your life as you wish to live it. Selfishness is wanting others to live their lives as you wish them to.

The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.

I don't want to earn a living. I want to live.

To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.