Alan

“What do I have in common with Jews? I hardly have anything in common with myself, and really ought to go stand myself perfectly still in a corner, grateful to be able to breathe.”
― Franz Kafka, Konundrum: Selected Prose of Franz Kafka

“The literal meaning of life is whatever you're doing that prevents you from killing yourself.”
― Albert Camus

“But I tried, though,” he says. “Goddammit, I sure as hell did that much, now, didn’t I?”
― Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

“The truth was that life is meaningless. I had as it were lived, lived, and walked, walked, till I had come to a precipice and saw clearly that there was nothing ahead of me but destruction. It was impossible to stop, impossible to go back, and impossible to close my eyes or avoid seeing that there was nothing ahead but suffering and real death -- complete annihilation.”
― Leo Tolstoy, A Confession