In reality, hope is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs the torments of man. Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Each lost soul will be a hell unto itself, the boundless fire raging in its very vitals. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Be it well understood, I am free by compulsion, whether I wish to be or not. Freedom is not an activity pursued by an entity that, apart from and previous to such pursuit, is already possessed of a fixed being. To be free means to be lacking in constitutive identity, not to have subscribed to a determined being, to be able to be other than what one was, to be unable to install oneself once and for all in any given being. The only attribute of the fixed, stable being in the free being is this constitutive instability. History as a System

The greater part of the world's troubles are due to questions of grammar. Essays