
Can it really be that for us existence means exile, and nothingness, home?
Emil Cioran
2023

Can it really be that for us existence means exile, and nothingness, home?
Emil Cioran
2023

Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.
Arthur Schopenhauer
2015

True love is like the appearance of ghosts: everyone talks about it but few have seen it.
François de La Rochefoucauld
2015

Out of love, God becomes man. He says: “See, here is what it is to be a human being.”
Søren Kierkegaard
2023

We promise according to our hopes; we fulfil according to our fears.
François de La Rochefoucauld
2023

The only value of this world lay in its power – at certain times – to suggest another world.
Thomas Ligotti
2023

To be alive is to inhabit a nightmare without hope of awakening to a natural world, to have our bodies embedded neck-deep in a quagmire of dread, to live as shut-ins in a house of horrors from which nobody gets out alive.
Thomas Ligotti
2015

Poetry is the vision in a man’s soul which he translates as best he can with all the means at his disposal.
Paul Fort
2023

The phenomenon is not detached from the observer, but intertwined and involved with him.
JohannWolfgang von Goethe
2025

Where concern is lost, memory fares likewise.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
2025