Brecht Casper

“We rip out so much of ourselves to be cured of things faster than we should that we go bankrupt by the age of thirty and have less to offer each time we start with someone new. But to feel nothing so as not to feel anything - what a waste!”
― Andre Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

“You can withdraw from the sufferings of the world — that possibility is open to you and accords with your nature — but perhaps that withdrawal is the only suffering you might be able to avoid.”
― Franz Kafka, The Zürau Aphorisms

“I was very fond of you, but now I’m so, so tired. I’m not happy to go, but one needn't be happy to make another start.”
― Albert Camus, The Plague

“To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche