Kittah Gerhardt

“What we call chaos is just patterns we haven’t recognized. What we call random is just patterns we can't decipher.”
― Chuck Palahniuk

“Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers. The question of what to do with the feelings that have been aroused, the knowledge that has been communicated. If one feels that there is nothing 'we' can do -- but who is that 'we'? -- and nothing 'they' can do either -- and who are 'they' -- then one starts to get bored, cynical, apathetic.”
― Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others

“I have been much too calm these past three years. I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

“Finally, she mused that human existence is as brief as the life of autumn grass, so what was there to fear from taking chances with your life?”
― Mo Yan, Red Sorghum