“Many want to live long, and ignore pangs of eternity.”

“The truth is that solitude is the creative condition of genius, religious or secular, and the ultimate sterilising of it. No human soul can long ignore "the giant agony of the world" and live, except indeed the mollusc life, a barnacle upon eternity.”

“Woe entreats: Go! Away, woe! But all that suffers wants to live, that it may become ripe and joyous and longing- longing for what is farther, higher, brighter. "I want heirs"- thus speaks all that suffers; "I want children; I do not want myself". Joy, however, does not want heirs, or children- joy wants itself, wants eternity, wants recurrence, wants everything eternally the same.”

“Happy the man who lives long enough to acknowledge his ignorance”

“For a small reward, a man will hurry away on a long journey; while for eternal life, many will hardly take a single step.”

“And right this second I want to live in ignorant bliss.”