I did not want to be anything, and naturally I did not want to turn myself into a mere profession: all I ever wanted was to be myself.

It would be wrong to refuse to face the fact that everything is fundamentally sick and sad.

Instead of committing suicide, people go to work.

Very often we write down a sentence too early, then another too late; what we have to do is write it down at the proper time, otherwise it's lost.

The art we need is the art of bearing the unbearable.

The only friends I have are the dead who have bequeathed their writings to me — I have no others.

People keep a dog and are ruled by this dog, and even Schopenhauer was ruled in the end not by his head, but by his dog. This fact is more depressing than any other.

All my life I have had the utmost admiration for suicides. I have always considered them superior to me in every way.

Arrogance is an utterly appropriate weapon to use against a hostile world, a world in which arrogance is feared and respected, even if, like mine, it's only feigned.

After all, there is nothing but failure.

We have to keep company with supposedly bad characters if we are to survive and not succumb to mental atrophy. People of good character, so called, are the ones who end up boring us to death.

Legalize the right to choose wrong.Legalize individual liberty.

Digital leadership must be extremely visionary, mindful, creative, empathetic, generous, conscious, passionate, and humble.

If you think a weakness can be turned into a strength, I hate to tell you this, but that's another weakness.

What good are words if no one believes them?

Our Imperfections Are What Make Us Perfect.

There is an instinctive withdrawal for the sake of preservation, a closure that assumes the order of completion. Winter is a season unto itself.

Kenji Mizoguchi is to the cinema what Bach is to music, Cervantes is to literature, Shakespeare is to theatre, Titian is to painting: the very greatest.

We have been given the privilege and responsibility of living on Earth to see it isn't ruined.

Be not content with the best book; seek sidelights from the others; have no favourites.

One cannot live with sighted eyes and feeling heart and not know and read of the miseries which affect the world.