Taha Taan

“We laugh at a man who, stepping out of his room at the very minute when the sun is rising, says, “It is my will that the sun shall rise”; or at him who, unable to stop a wheel, says, “I wish it to roll”; or, again, at him who, thrown in a wrestling match, says, “Here I lie, but here I wish to lie.” But, joking apart, do we not act like one of these three persons whenever we use the expression “I wish”?”
― Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality

“I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.”
― Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis

“The absurd enlightens me on this point: there is no future.
Henceforth this is the reason for my inner freedom.”
― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays