Ben Gulapa

“What could I say? Maybe this: the man hunched over his motorcycle can focus only on the present instant of his flight; he is caught in a fragment of time cut off from both the past and the future; he is wrenched from the continuity of time; he is outside time; in other words, he is in a state of ecstasy; in that state he is unaware of his age, his wife, his children, his worries, and so he has no fear, because the source of fear is in the future, and a person freed of the future has nothing to fear.”
― Milan Kundera, Slowness

“Compared to the you in my heart, the I in you is insignificant.”
― Kōbō Abe, The Box Man

“Not all pain is significant. (on Dave Terry)”
― Scott Jurek, Eat & Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness

“Every moment of life wants to tell us something, but we do not want to hear what it has to say: when we are alone and quiet we are afraid that something will be whispered into our ear and hence we despise quiet and drug ourselves with sociability.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Unpublished Writings from the Period of Unfashionable Observations