Magdalen

“What do I have in common with Jews? I hardly have anything in common with myself, and really ought to go stand myself perfectly still in a corner, grateful to be able to breathe.”
― Franz Kafka, Konundrum: Selected Prose of Franz Kafka

“People think that those who commit suicide are against life—they are not. They are too lusty for life, they have great lust for life; and because life is not fulfilling their lust, in anger, in despair, they destroy themselves.”
― Osho

“Where is it written that lives should have a meaning?”
― Elena Ferrante, The Story of the Lost Child

“This is the way the world ends.
This is the way the world ends.
This is the way the world ends.
Not with a bang but a whimper.”
― T.S. Eliot, The Hollow Men