"Without music, life would be a mistake."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"That which does not kill us makes us stronger."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"In heaven, all the interesting people are missing."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"I would believe only in a God that knows how to dance."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"There are no facts, only interpretations."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"...and those seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who couldn't hear the music."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"Only sick music makes money today."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

""Without music, life would be a mistake."
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— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"How good music and bad reasons sound when one marches against an enemy."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"How good bad music and bad reasons sound when we march against an enemy!"
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"In music the passions enjoy themselves.

from, Beyond Good and Evil, 1886"
— Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm

"Poets and philosophers are the unacknowledged legislators of the world."
— Percy Bysshe Shelley

"Our sweetest songs are those of saddest thought."
— Percy Bysshe Shelley (The Complete Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley)

"A poet is a nightingale who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds."
— Percy Bysshe Shelley

"Music, when soft voices die, vibrates in the memory."
— Percy Bysshe Shelley

"I arise from dreams of thee
In the first sweet sleep of night,
When the winds are breathing low,
And the stars are shining bright."
— Percy Bysshe Shelley

"We learn from failure, not from success!"
— Bram Stoker (Dracula)

"Despair has its own calms"
— Bram Stoker (Dracula)

"Oh, the terrible struggle that I have had against sleep so often of late; the pain of the sleeplessness, or the pain of the fear of sleep, and with such unknown horror as it has for me! How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams."
— Bram Stoker (Dracula)

"Listen to them - children of the night. What music they make."
— Bram Stoker (Dracula)

"We loved with a love that was more than love."
— Edgar Allan Poe

"All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry."
— Edgar Allan Poe

"It was many and many a year ago,
In a kingdom by the sea,
That a maiden there lived whom you may know
By the name of ANNABEL LEE;
And this maiden she lived with no other thought
Than to love and be loved by me.

I was a child and she was a child,
In this kingdom by the sea;
But we loved with a love that was more than love-
I and my Annabel Lee;
With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven
Coveted her and me.

And this was the reason that, long ago,
In this kingdom by the sea,
A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling
My beautiful Annabel Lee;
So that her highborn kinsman came
And bore her away from me,
To shut her up in a sepulchre
In this kingdom by the sea.

The angels, not half so happy in heaven,
Went envying her and me-
Yes!- that was the reason (as all men know,
In this kingdom by the sea)
That the wind came out of the cloud by night,
Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee.

But our love it was stronger by far than the love
Of those who were older than we-
Of many far wiser than we-
And neither the angels in heaven above,
Nor the demons down under the sea,
Can ever dissever my soul from the soul
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee.

For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And the stars never rise but I feel the bright eyes
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side
Of my darling- my darling- my life and my bride,
In the sepulchre there by the sea,
In her tomb by the sounding sea. "
— Edgar Allan Poe