Chafarín

“La vida es esto: crueldad, ingratitud, inconsciencia,
desdén de la fuerza por la debilidad,
y así son los hombres y las mujeres,
y así somos todos.
Si; todo es violencia,
todo es crueldad en la vida, y ¿qué hacer?
No se puede abstenerse de vivir, no se
puede parar, hay que seguir marchando
hasta el final.”
― Pío Baroja, El mundo es ansí

“Marry, and you will regret it; don’t marry, you will also regret it; marry or don’t marry, you will regret it either way. Laugh at the world’s foolishness, you will regret it; weep over it, you will regret that too; laugh at the world’s foolishness or weep over it, you will regret both. Believe a woman, you will regret it; believe her not, you will also regret it… Hang yourself, you will regret it; do not hang yourself, and you will regret that too; hang yourself or don’t hang yourself, you’ll regret it either way; whether you hang yourself or do not hang yourself, you will regret both. This, gentlemen, is the essence of all philosophy.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

“The wretch, concentred all in self,
Living, shall forfeit fair renown,
And, doubly dying, shall go down
To the vile dust, from whence he sprung,
Unwept, unhonored, and unsung.”
― Walter Scott, The Lay of the Last Minstrel

“And what in earlier years would have brought animation to my face, arousing laughter and incessant chatter, now slips past me and my immobile lips preserve an impassive silence. Oh my youth! Oh my freshness!”
― Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls