Ṛta

“Algunos seres viven hasta los setenta o incluso los ochenta años pensando que siempre hay algo nuevo, que la aventura está, como suele decirse, a la vuelta de la esquina; prácticamente hay que matarlos o por lo menos reducirlos a un estado de invalidez muy avanzado para que entren en razón. No era el caso de Michel Djerzinski. Había vivido su vida humana solo, en un vacío sideral. Había contribuido al progreso del conocimiento; era su vocación, era la manera que había encontrado para expresar sus dones naturales; pero no había conocido el amor”
― Michel Houellebecq, The Elementary Particles

“Achilles glared at him and answered, "Fool, prate not to me about covenants. There can be no covenants between men and lions, wolves and lambs can never be of one mind, but hate each other out and out an through. Therefore there can be no understanding between you and me, nor may there be any covenants between us, till one or other shall fall”
― Homer, The Iliad

“For the rest of the earth’s organisms, existence is relatively uncomplicated. Their lives are about three things: survival, reproduction, death—and nothing else. But we know too much to content ourselves with surviving, reproducing, dying—and nothing else. We know we are alive and know we will die. We also know we will suffer during our lives before suffering—slowly or quickly—as we draw near to death. This is the knowledge we “enjoy” as the most intelligent organisms to gush from the womb of nature. And being so, we feel shortchanged if there is nothing else for us than to survive, reproduce, and die. We want there to be more to it than that, or to think there is. This is the tragedy: Consciousness has forced us into the paradoxical position of striving to be unself-conscious of what we are—hunks of spoiling flesh on disintegrating bones.”
― Thomas Ligotti, The Conspiracy Against the Human Race

“Le seul moyen d'affronter un monde sans liberté est de devenir si absolument libre qu'on fasse de sa propre existence un acte de révolte. ”
― Albert Camus, The Rebel