“The world is drowning in weirdness and lies......and here we are, so used to it that we're actually bored!”
― Solanin
― Solanin
“No one comes back from the dead, no one has entered the world without crying; no one is asked when he wishes to enter life, nor when he wishes to leave.”
― Either/Or: A Fragment of Life
― Either/Or: A Fragment of Life
“In early youth, as we contemplate our coming life, we are like children in a theatre before the curtain is raised, sitting there in high spirits and eagerly waiting for the play to begin. It is a blessing that we do not know what is really going to happen. Could we foresee it, there are times when children might seem like innocent prisoners, condemned, not to death, but to life, and as yet all unconscious of what their sentence means.”
― Studies in Pessimism: The Essays
― Studies in Pessimism: The Essays
“Do you think that I count the days? There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.”
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“happiness and satisfaction always imply some desire fulfilled, some state of pain brought to an end.”
― Studies in Pessimism
― Studies in Pessimism
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