I can't help thinking that there are only one or two ways of being brought into this world, but there are so many fucked-up ways of leaving it.
Just as modern motorways have no room for ox-carts or wandering pedestrians, so modern society has little place for lives and ways that are too eccentric.
Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.
In the end, everything is a gag.
We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.
True spirituality has its basis in moral life, which in turn is based on contem-plation.
I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto 'to live well you must live unseen'
I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.
The natural world is the greatest source of excitement. The greatest source of visual beauty. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.
Your belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous, stupid and cruel life.
You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven.
Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
Never, ever underestimate the power of 'Id Like that.
Those who want to live, let them fight, and those who do not want to fight in this world of eternal struggle do not deserve to live.
A tragedy means always a man's struggle with that which is stronger than man.
Life is made up of marble and mud.
Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.
I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.
The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.
I restore myself when I'm alone.
Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.