Marko

“Being asked for what purpose he thought men were bom, he laughingly replied: " To realise how much better it were not to be born.”
― Giacomo Leopardi, Operette morali

“Despite his new eyes, man was still rooted in matter, his soul spun into it and subordinated to its blind laws. And yet he could see matter as a stranger, compare himself to all phenomena, see through and locate his vital processes. He comes to nature as an unbidden guest, in vain extending his arms to beg conciliation with his maker: Nature answers no more, it preformed a miracle with man, but later did not know him”
― Peter Wessel Zapffe, The Last Messiah

“Man is a self-conscious nothing.”
― Julius Bahnsen

“To that creature, being born, Its birthday is a day to mourn”
― Giacomo Leopardi