Willem H

“It is on a day like this one, a little later, a little earlier, that you discover, without surprise, that something is wrong, that, without mincing words, you don't know how to live, that you will never know."

-from "A Man Asleep”
― Georges Perec, Things: A Story of the Sixties / A Man Asleep

“He was safe here; this was the place he loved - sanctuary, the paradise of his despair.”
― Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano

“Where the real world changes into simple images, the simple images become real beings and effective motivations of hypnotic behavior.”
― Guy Debord, Society Of The Spectacle

“Depression is melancholy minus its charms.”
― Susan Sontag, Illness as Metaphor