"They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice; that only a madman could be guilty of it; and other ins…"

"That thousands had lived in happiness and joy would never do away with the anguish and death-agony of one individual;…"

"[T]he life of most insects is nothing but ceaseless labour to prepare food and an abode for the future brood which wi…"

"Nature itself contradicts itself directly, according as it speaks from the individual or the universal, from within o…"

"Take, for example, the mole, that unwearied worker. To dig with all its might with its enormous shovel claws is the o…"

"The pleasure in this world, it has been said, outweighs the pain; or, at any rate, there is an even balance between t…"

"[H]e saw in Java a plain far as the eye could reach entirely covered with skeletons, and took it for a battlefield; t…"

"[I]n the simple and easily surveyed life of the brutes the emptiness and vanity of the struggle of the whole phenomen…"

"Certainly we know no higher game of chance than that for death and life. Every decision about this we watch with the …"

"This world is the battle-ground of tormented and agonized beings who continue to exist only by each devouring the oth…"