Friedrich Nietzsche

This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.

Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.

To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.

Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.

Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.

Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.

Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.

There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life; their Christianity, for instance.

The lie is a condition of life.

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?

Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?