Stress, loneliness, depression, boredom—the madness of everyday life. Ever-greater levels of sadness, implying a recognition, on the visceral level at least, that things could be different. How much joy is there left in the technological society, this field of alienation and anxiety.
John Zerzan
2023
Freedom stretches only as far as the limits of our consciousness.
Carl Jung
2023
Call for the grandest of all earthly spectacles, what is that? It is the sun going to his rest. Call for the grandest of all human sentiments, what is that? It is that man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.
Thomas De Quincey
2023
He who sees the present has seen all things, both all that has come to pass from everlasting and all that will be for eternity: all things are related and the same.
Marcus Aurelius
2022
It is the heritage of anguished centuries, and it distinguishes us from all other people – us, the youngest and last people of our culture.
Oswald Spengler
2022
Time is heavy sometimes; imagine how heavy eternity must be.
Emil Cioran
2022
The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?
Edgar Allan Poe
2022
There are black zones of shadow close to our daily paths, and now and then some evil soul breaks a passage through.
H.P. Lovecraft
2022
Unpleasant, even dangerous, qualities can be found in every nation and every individual.
Friedrich Nietzsche
2022
Announced by all the trumpets of the sky,
Arrives the snow, and, driving o’er the fields,
Seems nowhere to alight: the whited air
Hides hills and woods, the river, and the heaven,
And veils the farmhouse at the garden’s end.
The sled and traveller stopped, the courier’s feet
Delayed, all friends shut out, the housemates sit
Around the radiant fireplace, enclosed
In a tumultuous privacy of storm.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
2022
Parallel Aesthetics 