Dorian

“Pleasure, scarcely in one instance, is ever able to reach ecstasy and rapture; and in no one instance can it continue for any time at its highest pitch and altitude. The spirits evaporate, the nerves relax, the fabric is disordered, and the enjoyment quickly degenerates into fatigue and uneasiness. But pain often, good God, how often! rises to torture and agony; and the longer it continues, it becomes still more genuine agony and torture. Patience is exhausted, courage languishes, melancholy seizes us, and nothing terminates our misery but the removal of its cause, or another event, which is the sole cure of all evil, but which, from our natural folly, we regard with still greater horror and consternation.”
― David Hume, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion

“Any day stands
equal to the rest.”
― Heraclitus

“Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

“Everyone is the other and no one is himself.”
― Martin Heidegger, Being and Time