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
Tag: Pessimism
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
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
No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone.
Friedrich Nietzsche
2023
Mysticism is the heart’s scholastic learning, the dialectic of feeling.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
2025
One would have to be as unenlightened as an angel or an idiot to imagine that the human escapade could turn out well.
Emil Cioran
2025
Science is organised knowledge. Wisdom is organised life.
Immanuel Kant
2025
If we judge love by the majority of its results, it resembles hatred more than friendship.
François de La Rochefoucauld
2025
Parallel Aesthetics 