everything is ridiculous if one thinks of death

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.

Faculty Meetings are held whenever the need to show off is combinedwith the imperative of accomplishing nothing.

Don't think about your past, enjoy your present. And do your best. Reduce immosion, otherwise it will give you painful moments.

The price for Greatness comes with Great loss.

Why climb Mount Everest? Because it's there.

I still have a hard time just calling myself a musician. If I'm talking to somebody and they ask me what I do, I say I play music.

The late William Jennings Bryan, L.L.D., always had one great advantage in controversy; he was never burdened with an understanding of his opponent's case.

Tomorrow is the mysterious, unknown guest.

I'm a method actress in my songs, which is why it's hard to sing them.

Writers are too self-centered to be lonely.

I feel it my duty to plod on while daylight last.