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#1

“Money does not buy you happiness, but lack of money certainly buys you misery.”
― Daniel Kahneman, Well-Being: Foundations of Hedonic Psychology

tags: happiness, misery, money

188 likes

#2

“I am the most miserable person who ever lived," he said... "You are young, and in love," said Primus. "Every young man in your position is the most miserable young man who ever lived.”
― Neil Gaiman, Stardust

tags: love, misery

673 likes

#3

“There is no greater sorrow than to recall in misery the time when we were happy.”
― Dante Alighieri

tags: memories, misery, sadness, sorrow

300 likes

#4

“People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as 'nauseatingly miserable beyond repair'.”
― Franz Kafka, Diaries, 1910-1923

tags: misery

519 likes

#5

“Life is not an easy matter…. You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.”
― Leon Trotsky, Diary in Exile, 1935

tags: cynicism, life, misery, weakness

190 likes

#6

“What I sometimes mistake for ecstasy is simply the absence of grief.”
― Sarah Kane, Crave

tags: crave

256 likes

#7

“There's not a drug on earth can make life meaningful”
― Sarah Kane, 4.48 Psychosis

tags: asylum, death, drugs, life, meaning, nihilism, psychology, therapy

157 likes

#8

“I dreamt I went to the doctor's and she gave me eight minutes to live-I'd been sitting in the fucking waiting room half an hour.”
― Sarah Kane

tags: 4-48-psychosis

24 likes

#9

“I never knew it was possible to be so miserable in so many ways.”
― Amie Kaufman, These Broken Stars

tags: depression, miserable, misery

15 likes

#10

“I can't go on, I'll go on.”
― Samuel Beckett, I Can't Go On, I'll Go On: A Samuel Beckett Reader

tags: absurdity, drama, existentialism, fiction, humor, nihilism, tragedy, tragic-comedy

721 likes

#11

“Nothing. Nothing makes me happy. I like nothing," I tell her.”
― Bret Easton Ellis, Less Than Zero

tags: nihilism

36 likes

#12

“I don't want to care. If I care about things, it'll just be worse, it'll just be another thing to worry about. It's less painful if I don't care.”
― Bret Easton Ellis, Less Than Zero

95 likes

#13

“There must be no final truths; only burning questions.”
― John Marmysz, The Nihilist: A Philosophical Novel

tags: nihilism, philosophy-of-life, truth

6 likes

#14

“You have to take an interest in something in life, I told myself. I wondered what could interest me, after I was finished with love. I could take a course in wine tasting, maybe, or start collecting model aeroplanes.”
― Michel Houllebecq

tags: humour, nihilism

6 likes

#15

“I suppose that without a God, NASA is my anti-nihilism.”
― Marina Keegan

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#16

“بجدية كافحت لأكون جاداً أكثر ، أن أعيش وأبدع . ولكن عند كل محاوله جديدة أفقد عقلي ، أهرب إلى ظلالي كما يهرب الفرد إلى المعبد .”
― Samuel Beckett, Malone Dies

tags: صامويل-بيكيت

40 likes

#17

“لا يزال الليل ليلاً أكثر من اللازم”
― فرانز كافكا

333 likes

#18

“أنا قذر يا ميلينا، قذر بلا حدود، لذلك أصرخ كثيراً بشأن الطهارة”
― فرانز كافكا, Letters to Milena

150 likes

#19

“لا وجود إلا لعلامة واحدة تشهد على أننا فهمنا كل شيء : أن نبكي بلا سبب !”
― إميل سيوران

tags: لو-كان-آدم-سعيد-ا

531 likes

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