Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.Mark Twain
Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.Friedrich Nietzsche
Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.Friedrich Nietzsche
In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.Friedrich Nietzsche
It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night.Friedrich Nietzsche