All my life I have had the utmost admiration for suicides. I have always considered them superior to me in every way.

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.

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.

You are never truly together with one you love until the person in question is dead and actually inside you.

People move on. Friendship end.

The beginning is easy what happens next is much harder.

I always think in life passion supersedes everything.

The Divine Thing that made itself the foundation of the Church does not seem, to judge by his comments on the religious leadership of his day, to have hoped much from officers of a church.

When we realize the degree of agency we actually do have, we no longer have to "hope" at all. We simply do the work.

There's a big song at the beginning [of Sausage Party], and that was really fun to do. It felt like we were living out a dream of being the South Park guys for a minute.

The personal was, compared with the tides of great nations, a bothersome detail.

When you stood between somebody you loved and death, it was hard to be awake and it was hard to sleep.

Retire to what? I already play golf and fish for a living.

It's a lot of crooked cops out there. They manipulate the system.