Amir Youssef

“just as the world of before had presidents who came and went. Meanwhile, it was the men in the shadows who wielded the true power, those whose terms had no limits. That this silo operated by the same deceit should not be surprising; it was the only way such men knew how to run anything.”
― Hugh Howey, The Silo Saga Omnibus

“I am myself indifferent honest ; but yet I could accuse me of such things that it were better my mother had not borne me : I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious, with more offences at my beck than I have thoughts to put them in, imagination to give them shape, or time to act them in. What should such fellows as I do crawling between earth and heaven? We are arrant knaves, all ; believe none of us.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“The universe is the rotting corpse of a God who killed himself.”
― Philipp Mainländer, Die Philosophie der Erlösung: Erster Band

“In my experience, any thinking is liable to go off the rails. You should just go to sleep.”
― Liu Cixin, The Three-Body Problem Trilogy: Remembrance of Earth's Past