Eric Adolf

“I often think men have no understanding of what’s not honorable though they’re always talking of it”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“If the immediate and direct purpose of our life is not suffering then our existence is the most ill-adapted to its purpose in the world.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, On the Suffering of the World

“delicate Adonis is dying
Kythereia
what should we do?
strike yourselves
maidens
and tear your garments”
― Sappho, If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho

“In early youth, as we contemplate our coming life, we are like children in a theatre before the curtain is raised, sitting there in high spirits and eagerly waiting for the play to begin. It is a blessing that we do not know what is really going to happen. Could we foresee it, there are times when children might seem like innocent prisoners, condemned, not to death, but to life, and as yet all unconscious of what their sentence means.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Studies in Pessimism: The Essays