βI wasnβt meant for reality, but life came and found me.β
- Fernando Pessoa.
- Fernando Pessoa.
Men are never convinced of your reasons, of your sincerity, of the seriousness of your sufferings, except by your death.
So long as you are alive, your case is doubtful; you have a right only to their skepticism."
- Albert Camus.
So long as you are alive, your case is doubtful; you have a right only to their skepticism."
- Albert Camus.
"We are not mad. We are human. We want to love, and someone must forgive us for the paths we take to love, for the paths are many and dark, and we are ardent and cruel in our journey."
- Leonard Cohen.
- Leonard Cohen.
"It is difficult to find happiness within oneself,
but it is impossible to find it anywhere else."
- Arthur Schopenhauer.
but it is impossible to find it anywhere else."
- Arthur Schopenhauer.
"A man can be himself only so long as he is alone;
and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free."
- Arthur Schopenhauer.
and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free."
- Arthur Schopenhauer.
"Peace is the only battle worth waging."
"I rebel; therefore I exist."
"Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable."
"The most important thing you do every day you live is deciding not to kill yourself."
"It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners."
"There are causes worth dying for, but none worth killing for."
"We only know of one duty, and that is to love."
"Live to the point of tears."
- Albert Camus.
"I rebel; therefore I exist."
"Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable."
"The most important thing you do every day you live is deciding not to kill yourself."
"It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners."
"There are causes worth dying for, but none worth killing for."
"We only know of one duty, and that is to love."
"Live to the point of tears."
- Albert Camus.
"You will never be able to
experience everything.
So, please, do poetical justice to your soul and simply experience yourself."
- Albert Camus.
experience everything.
So, please, do poetical justice to your soul and simply experience yourself."
- Albert Camus.
No wonder we cannot appreciate the really central Kafka joke: that the horrific struggle to establish a human self results in a self whose humanity is inseparable from the horrific struggle. That our endless and impossible journey toward home is in fact our home.
- David Foster Wallace.
- David Foster Wallace.
I was once foolish enough to believe knowledge would clarify, but some things are so gauzed behind layers of syntax and semantics, behind days and hours, names forgotten, salvaged and shed,
that simply knowing the wound exists does nothing to reveal it.
Ocean Vuong.
that simply knowing the wound exists does nothing to reveal it.
Ocean Vuong.
"Nostalgia is proof that you are living a life worth living.
It is a privilege to yearn for your own memories".
It is a privilege to yearn for your own memories".
I would like to be remembered as a man who had a wonderful time living life, a man who had good friends and, a fine family and I don't think I could ask for anything more than that, actually.
- Frank Sinatra.
- Frank Sinatra.
The same feeling of not belonging, of futility, wherever I go: I pretend interest in what matters nothing to me, I bestir myself mechanically or out of charity, without ever being caught up, without ever being somewhere.
What attracts me is elsewhere, and I don't know where that elsewhere is.
- Emil Cioran.
What attracts me is elsewhere, and I don't know where that elsewhere is.
- Emil Cioran.
"He didn't belong anywhere and he never really belonged to anyone.
And everyone else belonged somewhere and to someone."
And everyone else belonged somewhere and to someone."
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This story is old, I know
But it goes on.
The Smiths.
But it goes on.
The Smiths.
No animal ever torments another for the mere purpose of tormenting, but man does it, and it is this that constitutes the diabolical feature in his character which is so much worse than the merely animal.
- Arthur Schopenhauer.
- Arthur Schopenhauer.
I am gonna show you when it's dark,
But has no fear.
But has no fear.
I am gonna tell you some things here
don't wanna hear.
don't wanna hear.
it is much safer to be feared than loved because ...love is preserved by the link of obligation which, owing to the baseness of men, is broken at every opportunity for their advantage; but fear preserves you by a dread of punishment which never fails.
- Niccolo Machiavelli.
- Niccolo Machiavelli.