Eric Adolf

“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

“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

“How much water are you going to use, idiot? Who on earth washes like that?'
'I’ll never get it clean otherwise, citizen chief. It’s thick with mud.'
'Didn’t you ever watch your wife scrub the floor, pig?'
Shukhov drew himself up, the dripping rag in his hand, He smiled ingenuously, revealing the gaps in his teeth, the result of a touch of scurvy at Ust-Izhma in 1943. And what a touch it was - his exhausted stomach wouldn't hold any kind of food, and his bowels could move nothing but a bloody fluid. But now only a lisp remained from that old trouble.
'I was taken away from my wife in forty-one, citizen chief. I’ve forgotten what she was like.”
― Alexander Solzhenitsyn, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

“I want you to know, because I fell in love with you the moment I saw you on the bus. I could think of no way to become acquainted with you except by acting rashly -- foolishly, to be accurate. But then, one is a fool when one is in love.

I loved the way your lips were so slightly parted. You represented the answer to everything to me”
― J. D. Salinger, The Complete Uncollected Short Stories of J. D. Salinger