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#1

“So this is hell. I'd never have believed it. You remember all we were told about the torture-chambers, the fire and brimstone, the "burning marl." Old wives' tales! There's no need for red-hot pokers. Hell is—other people!”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit

tags: hell, people

416 likes

#2

“I never could bear the idea of anyone's expecting something from me. It
always made me want to do just the opposite.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit

tags: behavior, life, personal, personality

237 likes

#3

“As for me, I am mean: that means that I need the suffering of others to exist. A flame. A flame in their hearts. When I am all alone, I am extinguished.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit

142 likes

#4

“Happiness consists in frequent repetition of pleasure”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

tags: happiness, philosophy

941 likes

#5

“They tell us that Suicide is the greatest piece of Cowardice... That Suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in this world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

tags: arthur-schopenhauer, death, right, schopenhauer, suicide, title

904 likes

#6

“Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts as a last resource pride in the nation to which he belongs; he is ready and happy to defend all its faults and follies tooth and nail, thus reimbursing himself for his own inferiority.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Essays and Aphorisms

tags: patriotism

894 likes

#7

“Der Mensch kann tun was er will; er kann aber nicht wollen was er will.

Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Essays and Aphorisms

tags: determinism, free-will, idealism, pessimism

802 likes

#8

“Life is a constant process of dying.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

tags: philosophy-of-life

636 likes

#9

“A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, The Wisdom of Life and Counsels and Maxims

550 likes

#10

“What labels me, negates me.”
― Soren Kierkegaard

1249 likes

#11

“In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant… My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known — no wonder, then, that I return the love.”
― Soren Kierkegaard, Either/Or: A Fragment of Life

tags: depression

1003 likes

#12

“If you have reasons to love someone, you don’t love them.”
― Slavoj Žižek

tags: love, philosophy

467 likes

#13

“A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.”
― Franz Kafka

tags: absurd

2025 likes

#14

“I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.”
― Franz Kafka

1409 likes

#15

“I can love only what I can place so high above me that I cannot reach it.”
― Franz Kafka

232 likes

#16

“You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.”
― Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

tags: kafka, letters, love

1367 likes

#17

“What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense.”
― Franz Kafka

199 likes

#18

“Wendy? Darling? Light, of my life. I'm not gonna hurt ya. I'm just going to bash your brains in.”
― Stephen King, The Shining

430 likes

#19

“As a species we're fundamentally insane. Put more than two of us in a room, we pick sides and start dreaming up reasons to kill one another. Why do you think we invented politics and religion?”
― Stephen King

tags: stephen-king, the-mist

244 likes

#20

“I'm going to smile, and my smile will sink down into your pupils, and heaven knows what it will become.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit

2291 likes

#21

“Cinema is the ultimate pervert art. It doesn't give you what you desire - it tells you how to desire.”
― Slavoj Žižek

922 likes

#22

“You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: sin

10851 likes

#23

“Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: experience-mistakes-wisdom

8672 likes

#24

“I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: emotions, mercy

5071 likes

#25

“You must have a cigarette. A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: cigarette

1085 likes

#26

“A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: love, man, woman

865 likes

#27

“They get up early, because they have so much to do, and go to bed early, because they have so little to think about. ”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: lifestyle

537 likes

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