Constantine

“Hence, in all countries the chief occupation of society is card-playing, and it is the gauge of its value, and an outward sign that it is bankrupt in thought. Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another’s money. Idiots!”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, The Wisdom of Life and Other Essays: The Works of Arthur Schopenhauer

“I don't want any funny business, and above all I don't want to be dragged into other people's funny business. If it's to be my head on the block, I want to know that it's doing there, and not that it's some stupid things that other people have done.”
― Hans Fallada, Every Man Dies Alone

“If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

“The world is not to be put in order. The world is order. It is for us to put ourselves in unison with this order.”
― Henry Miller