Pantelis

“I do not myself think there is any superior rationality in being unhappy. The wise man will be as happy as circumstances permit, and if he finds contemplation of the universe painful beyond a point, he will contemplate something else instead.”
― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

“Is it in these bottomless nights that you sleep in exile?”
― Arthur Rimbaud, A Season in Hell and The Drunken Boat

“Έρχεται κάποια στιγμή, όπου η μεγαλειότητά μας, ο εαυτός μας, είναι ανάγκη να περάσει στην αίθουσα του θρόνου με τους αυλικούς του, το νου και την καρδιά, για ν' αποφασίσει επάνω στον καταστατικό χάρτη της ζωής του.”
― Τάσος Αθανασιάδης, Η αίθουσα του θρόνου

“To all the talented young men who wander about feeling that there is nothing in the world for them to do, I should say: 'Give up trying to write, and, instead, try not to write. Go out into the world; become a pirate, a king in Borneo, a labourer in Soviet Russia; give yourself an existence in which the satisfaction of elementary physical needs will occupy almost all your energies.' I do not recommend this course of action to everyone, but only to those who suffer from the disease which Mr Krutch diagnoses. I believe that, after some years of such an existence, the ex-intellectual will fin that in spite of is efforts he can no longer refrain from writing, and when this time comes his writing will not seem to him futile.”
― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness