“Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.”

Without music, life would be a mistake.

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

There are no beautiful surfaces without a terrible depth.

Invisible threads are the strongest ties.

One must give value to their existence by behaving as if ones very existence were a work of art.

The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets through many a dark night.

Silence is worse; all truths that are kept silent become poisonous.

The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.

After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

Is man merely a mistake of God’s? Or God merely a mistake of man?

The voice of beauty speaks softly; it creeps only into the most fully awakened souls.

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.

Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.

Art is the proper task of life.

I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.

Worse than a true evil is it to bear the burden of faults that are not truly yours.

It’s good not to do evil. But it’s evil not to do good.

How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.

The greatest evils in the world will not be carried out by men with guns, but by men in suits sitting behind desks.

Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper’s bell of an approaching looter.

In the land of Gods and Monsters, I was an Angel living in the garden of Evil.

Love is evil, spell it backwards, I’ll show ya.

There is no possible source of evil except good.