Tony Dib

“I sat pondering the idea of the absence of meaning. Was our life nothing more than a sequence of anonymous screams in a desert of indifferent stars?”
― Ernesto Sábato, El túnel

“Of how many a man may it not be said that hope made a fool of him until he danced into the arms of death!”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Studies in Pessimism: The Essays

“The best consolation in misfortune or affliction of any kind will be the thought of other people who are in a still worse plight than yourself; and this is a form of consolation open to every one. But what an awful fate this means for mankind as a whole!”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Studies in Pessimism

“If we turn from contemplating the world as a whole, and, in particular, the generations of men as they live their little hour of mock-existence and then are swept away in rapid succession; if we turn from this, and look at life in its small details, as presented, say, in a comedy, how ridiculous it all seems!”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Studies in Pessimism