Ah, ye brethren, that God whom I created was human work and... - Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

"You tell me: 'Life is hard to bear.' But if it were otherwise why should you have your pride in the morning and your resignation in the evening?Life is hard to bear: but do not pretend to be so tender! We are all of us pretty fine asses and asseses of burden!"

"Weariness that wants to reach the ultimate with one leap, with one fatal leap, a poor ignorant weariness that does not want to want any more: this created all gods and afterworlds."

"You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted."

"I tell you: one must still have chaos in one, to give birth to a dancing star. I tell you: you have still chaos in you."

"All beings so far have created something beyond themselves; and do you want to be the ebb of this great flood and even go back to the beasts rather than overcome man? What is the ape to man? A laughingstock or a painful embarrassment. And man shall be just that for the overman: a laughingstock or a painful embarrassment…"