Compassion for the friend should conceal itself under a hard shell.
Whoever, at any time, has undertaken to build a new heaven has found the strength for it in his own hell...
Battle not with Hello Kitty lest ye become Hello Kitty; and if you gaze into the abyss the abyss gazes into you with huge eyes and a helpless disposition.
Your god is dead and only the ignorant weep. And if you claim there is a hell, then we shall meet there!
The world is poor for him who has never been sick enough for this 'voluptuousness of hell
The idealist is incorrigible: if he is thrown out of his heaven he makes an ideal of his hell.