Mærin Skyhead

“But chastity means passion, chastity means neurasthenia. And passion and neurasthenia mean instability. And instability means the end of civilization. You can’t have a lasting civilization without plenty of pleasant vices.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“Only great pain, the long, slow pain that takes its time... compels us to descend to our ultimate depths... I doubt that such pain makes us "better"; but I know it makes us more profound... In the end, lest what is most important remain unsaid: from such abysses, from such severe sickness, one returns newborn, having shed one's skin... with merrier senses, with a second dangerous innocence in joy, more childlike and yet a hundred times subtler than one has ever been before.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs

“Eternity! O, dread and dire word. Eternity! What mind of man can understand it?”
― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

“I do not think I’m easy to define. I have a wandering mind. And I’m not anything that you think I am.”
― Syd Barrett