“Sunday neurosis, that kind of depression which afflicts people who become aware of the lack of content in their lives when the rush of the busy week is over and the void within themselves becomes manifest.”
― Man's Search for Meaning
― Man's Search for Meaning
“I feel very strongly about putting questions; it partakes too much of the style of the day of judgement. You start a question, and it's like starting a stone. You sit quietly on the top of a hill; and away the stone goes, starting others; and presently some bland old bird (the last you would have thought of) is knocked on the head in his own back garden, and the family have to change their name. No, sir, I make it a rule of mine: the more it looks like Queer Street, the less I ask.”
― Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
― Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
“From his youth on , he had been accustomed to people's passing him and taking no notice of him whatever , not out contempt -as hehad once believed - But because they were quite unaware of his existence. There was no space surrounding him, no waves broke from him into the atmosphere, as with other people; he had no shadow, so to speak, to cast across another's face. Only if he ran right into someone in a crowd or in a street-corner collision would there be a brief moment of discernment; and th person en countered would bounce off and stare at him for a few seconds as if gazing at a creature that ought not even exist, a creature that, although undeniably there, in some way or other was not present- and would take to his heels and have forgotten him, Grenouille, a moment later .......”
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“For a crippled man like me, personal happiness was possible only in dreams.”
― The Complete Short Novels
― The Complete Short Novels
“if, before every action, we were to begin by weighing up the
consequences, thinking about them in earnest, first the immediate
consequences, then the probable, then the possible, then the
imaginable ones, we should never move beyond the point where
our first thought brought us to a halt. The good and the evil resulting
from our words and deeds go on apportioning themselves,
one assumes in a reasonably uniform and balanced way,
throughout all the days to follow, including those endless days,
when we shall not be here to find out, to congratulate ourselves
or ask for pardon, indeed there are those who claim that this is
the much-talked-of immortality, Possibly,”
― Blindness
consequences, thinking about them in earnest, first the immediate
consequences, then the probable, then the possible, then the
imaginable ones, we should never move beyond the point where
our first thought brought us to a halt. The good and the evil resulting
from our words and deeds go on apportioning themselves,
one assumes in a reasonably uniform and balanced way,
throughout all the days to follow, including those endless days,
when we shall not be here to find out, to congratulate ourselves
or ask for pardon, indeed there are those who claim that this is
the much-talked-of immortality, Possibly,”
― Blindness
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