What is next to ecstasy?
Pain.
What is next to pain?
Nothingness.
What is next to nothingness?
Hell.

Some are born virtuous, some become virtuous. To be good by nature is indeed fortunate but to become good is like walking on a double-edged sword; it takes a longer time and is more painful.

Sex means nothing--just the moment of ecstasy, that flares and dies in minutes.

His manual of heaven and hell lay open before me, and I could perceive my nothingness in this scheme.

I have need of angels. Enough hell has swallowed me for too many years. But finally understand this--I have burned up one hundred thousand human lives already, from the strength of my pain.

'Tis not where we lie, but whence we fell; The loss of heaven's the greatest pain in hell.