Then this God does exist according to you?'He does not exist, but He is. In the stone there is no pain, but in the fear of the stone is the pain. God is the pain of the fear of death. He who will conquer pain and terror will become himself a god.

What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.

Right or wrong, it's very pleasant to break something from time to time.

Originality and a feeling of one's own dignity are achieved only through work and struggle.

Indeed, in that sense we’re all rather often almost like mad people, only with the slight difference that the ‘sick’ are somewhat madder than we are, so that it’s necessary to draw a line here.

Man is fond of reckoning up his troubles, but does not count his joys.