Jonas

“Certainly it seems more and more clear that what we call "normal" in psychology is really a psychopathology of the average, so undramatic and so widely spread that we don't even notice it ordinarily. The existentialist's study of the authentic person and of authentic living helps to throw this general phoniness, this living by illusions and by fear into a harsh, clear light which reveals it clearly as sickness, even though widely shared.”
― Abraham H. Maslow, Toward a Psychology of Being

“aber da die Weltordnung durch den Tod bestimmt wird, ist es für Gott vielleicht besser, dass man nicht an ihn glaubt und mit aller Kraft gegen den Tod ankämpft, ohne die Augen zu diesem Himmel zu erheben, in dem er schweigt.”
― Albert Camus

“Übrig bleibt ein Schicksal, bei dem nur das Ende unausweichlich ist. Abgesehen von diesem einzigen Verhängnis des Todes stellt alles andere, Freude oder Glück, Freiheit dar. Es bleibt eine Welt, deren einziger Herr der Mensch ist. Was ihn bannte, war die Illusion einer anderen Welt.”
― Albert Camus, Der Mythos des Sisyphos

“On this height I often stand, my Bellarmin! But a moment of reflection casts me down. I begin to think, and find myself as I was before, alone, with all the pains of mortality, and my heart’s sanctuary, the world's eternal oneness, is no more; nature’s arms are closed, and I stand before her like a stranger and cannot comprehend her.
Oh! had I never gone into your schools. It’s learning that lured me down into the pit, in my youthful folly I thought to find in it the proof of my pure joy, and it has ruined everything for me.
Amongst you I became so very rational, learnt to distinguish myself perfectly from what is around me, and now I’m set apart in the beautiful world, expelled from the garden of nature in which I grew and bloomed, and shrivel under the noonday sun.”
― Friedrich Hölderlin, Hyperion 1