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.

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.

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

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.

There is always danger for those who are afraid.

Positive expectations create a positive life.

You can lie to yourself about all kinds of things. Until you can't, anymore. Until reality pounds a hole through your fantasy castle and the reality check must be cashed in.

Ideally, both members of a couple in love free each other to new and different worlds.

I never stay in one country more than three months. Why? Because I was interested in seeing, and if I stay longer I become blind.

My heart goes out to the people of the city of Boston. My thoughts and prayers are with the families who lost loved ones in such a senseless and heartless way.

You see, my mother was a district nurse until she died when I was 14, and we used to move from time to time because of her work.

A blog is a message in a bottle, both in purpose and likely readership.

My name is Ryan White. I am sixteen years old. I have hemophilia, and I have AIDS.

The greatest ownership of all is to glance around and understand.