Kenzo

“He feels within him his longing for happiness and for reason. The absurd is born of this confrontation between the human need and the unreasonable silence of the world.”
― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

“Misfortune has a way of choosing some unprecedented means or other of impressing its power on those who might be said to have forgotten it.”
― Seneca, Letters from a Stoic

“These 'orgies of pride' kept growing in Nietzsche, especially from The Joyful Wisdom onwards, and made him regard all craving for pleasure or happiness as a high road towards weakness or even spiritual slavery. His ideal became the true warrior: free, virile, and full of contempt for easy comfort. The measure of freedom itself became, in his opinion, above all the resistance which had to be overcome in order to 'remain uppermost'.”
― Janko Larvin