It would be wrong to refuse to face the fact that everything is fundamentally sick and sad.
The only friends I have are the dead who have bequeathed their writings to me–I have no others.
Almost everybody we get together with about a matter, even if it is of the highest importance, is incompetent.
Women were like rivers, their banks were unreachable, the night often rang with the cries of the drowned.
You’ve always lived a life of pretense, not a real life– a simulated existence, not a genuine existence. Everything about you, everything you are, has always been pretense, never genuine, never real.
To wake up one day and be Steinway and Glen in One… Glen Steinway, Steinway Glen, all for Bach.
When we imagine ourselves to be in a state of mind, no matter what, we are in that state of mind, and thus in that state of illness which we imagine ourselves to be in, in every state that we imagine ourselves in.
Parents have a child, and in doing so they bring into the world a monster that kills everything it comes in contact with.
The whole process of life is a process of deterioration in which everything—and this is the most cruel law—continually gets worse.
There is nothing more dreadful than having to go walking on one’s own on Monday.
When we do something, we may not think about why we are doing what we are doing, says Oehler, for then it would suddenly be totally impossible for us to do anything.
All my life I have had the utmost admiration for suicides. I have always considered them superior to me in every way.
We always look for everything in the immediate proximity, that is a mistake.
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.
He wanted to be an artist, an artist of life wasn’t enough for him, although precisely this concept provides everything we need to be happy if we think about it.
I don’t belong to the masses, I’ve been against the masses all my life, and I’m not in favour of dogs.
We only really face up to ourselves when we are afraid.
We only really face up to ourselves when we are afraid.
We only really face up to ourselves when we are afraid.
We only really face up to ourselves when we are afraid.
The anger and the brutality against everything can readily from one hour to the next be transformed into its opposite.