James

“I'm simply an accident. Why take it all so seriously?”
― Emil Cioran

“Life has no intrinsic worth, but is kept in motion merely by desire and illusion.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

“We should not be surprised by marriages between people who would never have been friends: Love…casts itself on people who, apart from sex, would be hateful, contemptible, and even abhorrent to us. But the will of the species is so much more powerful than that of individuals, that lovers overlook everything, misjudge everything, and bind themselves forever to an object of misery.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

“It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer