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“Depression is melancholy minus its charms.”
― Susan Sontag, Illness as Metaphor

“I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

“The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation. During the minute that it takes me to compose this sentence, thousands of animals are being eaten alive, many others are running for their lives, whimpering with fear, others are slowly being devoured from within by rasping parasites, thousands of all kinds are dying of starvation, thirst, and disease. It must be so. If there ever is a time of plenty, this very fact will automatically lead to an increase in the population until the natural state of starvation and misery is restored. In a universe of electrons and selfish genes, blind physical forces and genetic replication, some people are going to get hurt, other people are going to get lucky, and you won't find any rhyme or reason in it, nor any justice. The universe that we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but pitiless indifference.”
― Richard Dawkins, River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life

“Since we're all going to die, it's obvious that when and how don't matter.”
― Albert Camus, The Stranger

“Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?”
― Abraham Lincoln

“He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,
And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere. ”
― Ali Bin Abi Thalib

“Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.”
― Arthur C. Clarke

“The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.”
― Susan Sontag, On Photography

“The tragedy is not that we are alone, but that we cannot be. At times I would give anything in the world to no longer be connected by anything to this universe of men.”
― Albert Camus

“I have all the defects of other people and yet everything they do seems to me inconceivable.”
― Emil Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born

“I have never taken myself for a being. A non-citizen, a marginal type, a nothing who exists only by the excess, by the superabundance of his nothingness.”
― Emil Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born

“It is because we are all imposters that we endure each other.”
― Emil Cioran

“Nothing more to pursue, except the pursuit of nothing.”
― Emil Cioran, The Temptation to Exist

“If we could see ourselves as others see us, we would vanish on the spot.”
― E.M. Cioran

“Impossible to spend sleepless nights and accomplish anything: if, in my youth, my parents had not financed my insomnias, I should surely have killed myself.”
― Emil Cioran

“It has always seemed to me that my existence consisted purely and exclusively of nothing but the most outrageous nonsense.”
― Thomas Ligotti, Teatro Grottesco

“There is a whole range of melancholy: it begins with a smile and a landscape and ends with the clang of a broken bell in the soul”
― Emil Cioran, Tears and Saints

“Bach’s music is the only argument proving the creation of the Universe cannot be regarded a complete failure.”
― Emil Cioran

“God does not read.”
― Emil Cioran

“In a world without melancholy, nightingales would start burping”
― E. M. Cioran

“Why don't I kill myself? If I knew exactly what keeps me from doing so, I should have no more questions to ask myself since I should have answered them all.”
― Emil Cioran

“What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us theirs?”
― Emile Cioran

“The initial revelation of any monastery: everything is nothing. Thus begin all mysticisms. It is less than one step from nothing to God, for God is the positive expression of nothingness.”
― Emil Cioran, Tears and Saints

“The more we frequent men, the blacker our thoughts; and when, to clarify them, we return to our solitude, we find there the shadow they have cast.”
― Emil M. Cioran

“In the days when I set off on month-long bicycle trips across France, my greatest pleasure was to stop in country cemeteries, to stretch out between two graves, and to smoke for hours on end. I think of those days as the most active period of my life.”
― Emil Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born

“I'm simply an accident. Why take it all so seriously?”
― Emil Cioran

“By all evidence we are in the world to do nothing.”
― Emil Cioran

“The deepest and most organic death is death in solitude, when even light becomes a principle of death. In such moments you will be severed from life, from love, smiles, friends and even from death. And you will ask yourself if there is anything besides the nothingness of the world and your own nothingness.”
― Emil Cioran, On the Heights of Despair

“We dread the future only when we are not sure we can kill ourselves when we want to.”
― E.M. Cioran

“Bach's music is the only argument proving the creation of the Universe cannot be regarded as a complete failure. Without Bach, God would be a complete second-rate figure.”
― Emil Cioran