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“Throughout the nineteenth century, disease metaphors became more virulent, preposterous, demagogic. And there is an increasing tendency to call any situation one disapproves of a disease. Disease, which could be considered as much a part of nature as health became the synonym for what is unnatural.”
― Susan Sontag

“When someone sleeps they become a child again, perhaps because in sleep one can do no evil and one is unaware even of ones own existence. By some natural magic, the worst criminal, the most inveterate egotist, is made sacred by sleep. I can see no perceptible difference between killing a child and killing someone while they sleep.”
― Fernando Pessoa

“Without a profound complicity with natural forces such as violent death,
gushing blood, sudden catastrophes and the horrible cries of pain that
accompany them, terrifying ruptures of what had seemed to be immutable,
the fall into stinking flth of what had been elevated–without a sadistic
understanding of an incontestably thundering and torrential nature, there
could be no revolutionaries, there could only be a revolting utopian
sentimentality”
― Bataille (Georges).

“So when we are unhappy we feel the unhappiness of others more; feeling is not destroyed but concentrated.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky