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  • #1
    Daniel Kahneman
    “Money does not buy you happiness, but lack of money certainly buys you misery.”
    Daniel Kahneman, Well-Being: Foundations of Hedonic Psychology

  • #2
    Neil Gaiman
    “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

  • #3
    Dante Alighieri
    “There is no greater sorrow than to recall in misery the time when we were happy.”
    Dante Alighieri

  • #4
    Franz Kafka
    “People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as 'nauseatingly miserable beyond repair'.”
    Franz Kafka, Diaries, 1910-1923

  • #5
    Leon Trotsky
    “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

  • #6
    Sarah Kane
    “What I sometimes mistake for ecstasy is simply the absence of grief.”
    Sarah Kane, Crave

  • #7
    Sarah Kane
    “There's not a drug on earth can make life meaningful”
    Sarah Kane, 4.48 Psychosis

  • #8
    Sarah Kane
    “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

  • #9
    Amie Kaufman
    “I never knew it was possible to be so miserable in so many ways.”
    Amie Kaufman, These Broken Stars

  • #10
    Samuel Beckett
    “I can't go on, I'll go on.”
    Samuel Beckett, I Can't Go On, I'll Go On: A Samuel Beckett Reader

  • #11
    “Nothing. Nothing makes me happy. I like nothing," I tell her.”
    Bret Easton Ellis, Less Than Zero

  • #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

  • #13
    John Marmysz
    “There must be no final truths; only burning questions.”
    John Marmysz, The Nihilist: A Philosophical Novel

  • #14
    Michel Houellebecq
    “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

  • #15
    Marina Keegan
    “I suppose that without a God, NASA is my anti-nihilism.”
    Marina Keegan

  • #16
    Samuel Beckett
    “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

  • #17
    فرانز كافكا
    “لا يزال الليل ليلاً أكثر من اللازم”
    فرانز كافكا

  • #18
    فرانز كافكا
    “أنا قذر يا ميلينا، قذر بلا حدود، لذلك أصرخ كثيراً بشأن الطهارة”
    فرانز كافكا, Letters to Milena

  • #19
    إميل سيوران
    “لا وجود إلا لعلامة واحدة تشهد على أننا فهمنا كل شيء : أن نبكي بلا سبب !”
    إميل سيوران



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