Can it really be that for us existence means exile, and nothingness, home?
Emil Cioran
2023
Category: Cemeteries
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
Death makes no sense except to people who have passionately loved life. How can one die without having something to part from? Detachment is a negation of both life and death. Whoever has overcome his fear of death has also triumphed over life. For life is nothing but another word for this fear.
Emil Cioran
2018
Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
Arthur Schopenhauer
2025
Parallel Aesthetics 