Ego

"One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star."

"Life is hell, and the sweet still night of absolute death is the annihilation of hell."

"Man is a self-conscious nothing."

"It may be looked upon as the best of all possible worlds, but... it is thoroughly wretched, and worse than none at all."

"The world is increasingly unthinkable — a world of planetary disasters, emerging pandemics... and the furtive, always-looming threat of extinction."

"So many things attract us in the future, but in vain do we want to possess them in the present."

"There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide."

"The self is a relation that relates itself to itself."

"After a tragedy, a farce. Philosophy enters into her power, and the earth returns under one's feet."

"Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death."

"I am interested only in 'nonsense'; only in that which makes no practical sense."

"Existence of any flavor is not only unjustified, it is useless, malignantly so, and has nothing to recommend it over nonexistence."

"Remember only that I was innocent and, just like you, mortal on that day, and, I, too, had a face marked by rage, by joy and pity, quite simply, a human face!"

"Where history showed us only ramparts and frontiers, poetry discovered a mysterious predestination that makes two adversaries... worthy of each other."

"Transcendence is the idea of a beyond by means of which knowledge has a direction, toward which it directs itself, from which it draws its nourishment."

"Writing is putting one's obsessions in order."