"The air was like a shriek."

"Life is a disease, and death is the only cure."

"The sea – it is as incomprehensible as existence – it is incomprehensible as death – as eternal as longing."

"My fear of life is necessary to me, as is my illness. They are indistinguishable from me, and their destruction would destroy my art."

"Man is a part of nature, and his feelings are part of nature."