Brave, unconcerned, mocking, violent—thus wisdom wants us: she is a woman, and loves only a warrior.
Friedrich Nietzsche
2026
Category: Statues
Benevolence is more a vice of pride than a true virtue of the soul.
Marquis de Sade
2026
We are each either among the demoralised showing the way to a future of eternal nightmare, or we are losers celebrating our moment in hell.
Thomas Ligotti
2026
We all have strength enough to endure the troubles of others.
François de La Rochefoucauld
2026
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
