Alexander

“Today you may write a chapter on the advantages of travelling & tomorrow you may write another chapter on the advantages of not travelling.”
― Henry David Thoreau, The Journal, 1837-1861

“I one evening overtook one of my townsmen, who has accumulated what is called 'a handsome property'..on the Walden road, driving a pair of cattle to market, who inquired of me how I could bring my mind to give up so many of the comforts of life. I answered that I was very sure I liked it passably well; I was not joking. And so I went home to my bed, and left him to pick his way through the darkness and the mud to Brighton, which place he would reach some time in the morning.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

“Like when someone, who has eaten and drunk far too much, vomits it back up again with agonising pain and is nevertheless glad about the relief, thus this sleepless man wished to free himself of these pleasures, these habits and all of this pointless life and himself, in an immense burst of disgust.”
― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

“(...) we should strive to grow consciousness
itself — to generate bigger, brighter lights in an otherwise dark universe.”
― Giulio Tononi, Phi: A Voyage from the Brain to the Soul