Existential Dread


No Longer Human
The Stranger
Notes from Underground
The Metamorphosis
A Short Stay in Hell
The Bell Jar
I Who Have Never Known Men
Nausea
The Myth of Sisyphus, and Other Essays
The Myth of Sisyphus
Norwegian Wood
Girl, Interrupted
Severance
The Secret History
The Trial
James      Hunter
Treacle looked interested. "I used to think like that too--get caught up in the endless cycle of crushing despair and existential dread. Now I'm starting to see it a little like this jawbreaker. Terrible on the outside. But if you get a little deeper? Still terrible. But below that? Terrible. But eventually you get to a point where it isn't terrible. At least I think so. I haven't made it that far yet. Point is, it can't be all bad. Probably. Unless it is. Oh no...I'm starting to feel the existe ...more
James Hunter, Shadowcroft Academy for Dungeons

Lokesh Tuli
Your death ain't gonna be some grand, dramatic exit. It will come on an ordinary, aggressively mundane day, right in the dead middle of your meticulously unfinished plans. You’re gonna drop dead on a random, unremarkable Tuesday afternoon. You’ll be in the middle of complaining about the traffic, or worrying about your 401k, or drafting an email to someone you don't even like. You're gonna leave behind a half-finished to-do list pinned to the fridge with a cheap magnet. There will be wet laundry ...more
Lokesh Tuli, Notes From Exile: The "Manual for the Broken”

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