"There did he sit shrivelled in his..." - Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

“There exists above the "productive" man a yet higher species.”

“Who has not for the sake of his reputation sacrificed himself?”

“If an architect wants to strengthen a decrepit arch, he increases the load laid upon it, for thereby the parts are joined more firmly together.”

“Compassionis not helplesspity, but anawareness anddeterminationthat demandsaction.”

“The hand that hath made you fair hath made you good.Pity is the virtue of the law, and none but tyrants use it cruelly.”

“To regard states of distress in general as an objection, as something which must be abolished is the greatest nonsense on earth; having the most disastrous consequences, fatally stupid- almost as stupid as a wish to abolish bad weather - out of pity for the poor.”

“He that is proud eats up himself: pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle.”

“If you become involved with me, you will be throwing yourself into the abyss.”

“A miserable, self-destructive, death rocker...better to burn out than to fade away.”