Joseph Gallo

“Conflicted creatures, that’s what we [parents] are — we give birth, without knowing to what; we educate, without knowing whom; we must answer for it, without knowing how; and we can give up neither our power nor our fear.”
― Lou Andreas-Salome, 'Anneliese's House'

“—there is a depth of happiness in which the painfullest and gloomiest do not operate as antitheses, but as conditioned, as demanded in the sense of necessary shades of colour in such an overflow of light.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra

“I fear you when you are near, I love you when you are far, your fleeing allures me, your seeking secures me, I suffer, but for you what would I not gladly endure”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra Vol 1 of 2

“The flesh surrenders itself. Eternity takes back its own. Our bodies stirred these waters briefly, danced with a certain intoxication before the love of life and self, dealt with a few strange ideas, then submitted to the instruments of Time.”
― Frank Herbert