"Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil"

Psalm 23:4

"With all my soul I wished to be good, but I was young, passionate and alone, completely alone when I sought goodness. Every time I tried to express my most sincere desire, which was to be morally good, I met with contempt and ridicule, but as soon as I yielded to low passions I was praised and encouraged"

-- Leo Tolstoy

“...the universe is a flaw in the purity of non-being”

― Paul Valéry

"If it shines — it's not about you

If it rains — it's not about you

It just shines, rains or snows, it has nothing to do with you"

― Machiavelli from lovehate.io

“I would like to add two forgotten articles to the Declaration of Rights: I. Every man is the master of his own life and the judge of the moment when he chooses to end it.

II. Every man has the right to reject life, and no one has the right to condemn them for doing so, for life cannot be good in the eyes of everyone”

― Albert Caraco

"Blessed are the dead! And thrice cursed are those who, consumed by madness, bring forth new life! Blessed are the chaste! Blessed are the fruitless! Blessed are even those who prefer lust to fertility!"

― Albert Caraco

"Die Wahrheit ist, daß mir auf Erden nicht zu helfen war"

― Heinrich von Kleist

"Men ought either to be well treated or crushed, because they can avenge themselves of lighter injuries, of more serious ones they cannot; therefore the injury that is to be done to a man ought to be of such a kind that one does not stand in fear of revenge."

-- Niccolo Machiavelli

"That which serves the higher class of men for nourishment or refreshment, must be almost poison to an entirely different and lower order of human beings. The virtues of the common man would perhaps mean vice and weakness in a philosopher; it might be possible for a highly developed man, supposing him to degenerate and go to ruin, to acquire qualities thereby alone, for the sake of which he would have to be honoured as a saint in the lower world into which he had sunk. There are books which have an inverse value for the soul and the health according as the inferior soul and the lower vitality, or the higher and more powerful, make use of them. In the former case they are dangerous, disturbing, unsettling books, in the latter case they are herald-calls which summon the bravest to their bravery. Books for the general reader are always ill-smelling books, the odour of paltry people clings to them. Where the populace eat and drink, and even where they reverence, it is accustomed to stink. One should not go into churches if one wishes to breathe pure air"

-- Friedrich Nietzsche

"Christianity gave Eros poison to drink; he did not die of it, certainly, but degenerated to Vice"

-- Friedrich Nietzsche