To demand of strength that it should not express itself as strength, that it should not be a desire to overcome, a desire to throw down, a desire to become master, a thirst for enemies and resistances and triumphs, is just as absurd as to demand of weakness that it should express itself as strength. Genealogy of Morals

I had already experienced plenty of loneliness. Now I sensed that even deeper loneliness existed, and that it was inescapable. Demian

Fathers and teachers, I ponder, "What is hell?" I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love. The Karamazov Brothers

When a simple man who has no skill in dialectics believes an argument to be true which he afterwards imagines to be false, whether really false or not, and then another and another, he no longer has any faith left, and great disputers, as you know, come to think, at last that they have grown to be the wisest of mankind; for they alone perceive the utter unsoundness and instability of all arguments, or, indeed, of all things, which like the currents in the Euripus, are going up and down in never-ceasing ebb and flow. The Trials Of Socrates