But he took his belief that life wasn’t worth living and turned it on its head, asking what would make life worthwhile after all—what a single human could do to benefit humanity.
Bittersweet Susan Cain
We should strive “to participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world.”
Bittersweet Susan Cain
He was self-indulgent, a failure. He had not abandoned failure; it was his address, his street, his one comfort.
Light Years James Salter
I have always lived with the awareness of the impossibility of living. And what has made existence endurable to me is my curiosity as to how I would get from one minute, one day, one year to the next.
—Emil Cioran, The Trouble with Being Born
“What do you do from morning to night?”
“I endure myself.”
The Trouble with Being Born Emil Cioran
More than once, I have managed to leave my room, for if I had stayed there I could not be sure of being able to resist some sudden resolution. The street is more reassuring, you think less about yourself there.
—Emil Cioran, The Trouble with Being Born
To get up in the morning, wash and then wait for some unforeseen variety of dread or depression.
—Emil Cioran, The Trouble with Being Born
“Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.”
Nausea Jean-Paul Sartre
Better to go back to the studio in Via Margutta, where despair expressed itself, at least, in the empty canvas upon which I would never paint.
Boredom Alberto Moravia
It was true that nothing had changed, but I was again going to find myself face to face with despair, with the same despair, also unchanged, that had formerly made me run away.
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