Ashraqat Dawood

“A civilization begins to decline the moment Life becomes its sole obsession.”
― Emil Cioran

“Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering...”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

“When shall I at last retire into solitude alone, without companions, without joy and without sorrow, with only the sacred certainty that all is a dream? When, in my rags—without desires—shall I retire contented into the mountains? When, seeing that my body is merely sickness and crime, age and death, shall I—free, fearless, and blissful—retire to the forest? When? When, oh when?”
― Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek

“the deepest subjective experiences are also the most universal, because through them one reaches the universal source of life.”
― Émile Michel Cioran, On the Heights of Despair