Reham

“Which executioner is the more humane, he who kills you in a few minutes or he who drags the life out of you in the course of many years”
― Anton Chekhov, The Bet and Other Stories

“For the direct, lawful, immediate fruit of consciousness is inertia – that is, a conscious sitting with folded arms. I’ve already mentioned this above. I repeat, I emphatically repeat: ingenuous people and active figures are all active simply because they are dull and narrow minded. How to explain it? Here’s how: as a consequence of their narrow-mindedness, they take the most immediate and secondary causes for the primary ones, and thus become convinced more quickly and easily than others that they have found an indisputable basis for their doings, and so they feel at ease; and that, after all, is the main thing. For in order to begin to act, one must first be completely at ease, so that no more doubts remain. Well, and how am I, for example, to set myself at ease? Where are the primary causes on which I can rest, where are my bases? Where am I going to get them? I exercise thinking, and, consequently, for me every primary cause immediately drags with it yet another, still more primary one, and so on ad infinitum. Such is precisely the essence of all consciousness and thought. So,”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground

“كل شيء يختصر إجمالا في الرغبة أو في عدم الرغبة. ما تبقى مجرد ظلال”
― Emil Cioran, لو كان آدم سعيدًا

“من السهل أن يكون المرءُ عميقًا، يكفي أن يستسلم لفيض ثغراته الخاصة.”
― اميل سيوران