perfidious society masturbators

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.

Freedom is based on the anarch’s awareness that he can kill himself. He carries this awareness around

The generation that destroys the environment is not the generation that pays the price. That is the problem.

I mean, what's better than having the person you love love you? That's pretty exciting. It's pretty amazing, actually. It's like a miracle or something.

I am to a fault an introspective person. But I am not a reflective person - except for a big mistake, and then I really think about it.

Whether you boyle snow or pound it, you can have but water of it.

I'm a perfectionist and I can kill songs because I analyze them too much. For me it takes awhile because I like to do it and then step back and listen and observe.

The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime.

Integrity is your destiny-it is the light that guides your way.

You cannot acquire the gift of peace if by your anger you destroy the peace of the Lord.

I do have the power. I can decide for myself what I want, even if the thought stresses me out.