“For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.”

“Is it possible to take river water back after it has mixed into the sea? The river and the sea are united and one now.”

“in truth man is polluted river. one must be a sea to receive a polluted river without becoming defiled.”

“In truth, man is a polluted river. One must be a sea to receive a polluted river without becoming defiled. I bring you the Superman! He is that sea; in him your great contempt can be submerged.”

“So to be sick unto death is not to be able to die -- yet not as though there were hope of life; no, the hopelessness in this case is that even the last hope, death, is not available. When death is the greatest danger, one hopes for life; but when one becomes acquainted with an even more dreadful danger, one hopes for death. So when the danger is so great that death has become one's hope, despair is the disconsolateness of not being able to die.”

“If a life goes down the toilet, it comes out in a river and meets the sea.”