Benevolence is more a vice of pride than a true virtue of the soul.
Marquis de Sade
2026
Tag: Devore
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
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
We promise according to our hopes; we fulfil according to our fears.
François de La Rochefoucauld
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
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
