The reign of the tyrant ends with his death, and the reign of the martyr starts with it.

I am convinced that God is love, this thought has for me a primitive lyrical validity. When it is present to me, I am unspeakably blissful, when it is absent, I long for it more vehemently than does the lover for his object.

Whoever has learned to be anxious in the right way has learned the ultimate.

A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.

Death cannot explain itself. The earnestness consists precisely in this, that the observer must explain it to himself.

I have, I believe, the courage to doubt everything; I have, I believe, the courage to fight against everything; but I do not have the courage to acknowledge anything, the courage to possess, to own anything.

The door to happiness opens outward.