Jack

“Pleasure is never as pleasant as we expected it to be and pain is always more painful. The pain in the world always outweighs the pleasure. If you don't believe it, compare the respective feelings of two animals, one of which is eating the other.”
― Schopenhauer

“A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung out into the cosmic brutality without hesitation.”
― Peter Wessel Zapffe, Essays og Epistler

“I am going to hold a pistol to the head of the Modern Man. But I shall not use it to kill him–only to bring him to life.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Manalive

“Know yourselves- be infertile and let the earth be silent after ye.”
― Peter Wessel Zapffe, Essays