“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
― Albert Camus
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“Live to the point of tears.”
― Albert Camus
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“But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.”
― Albert Camus
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“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”
― Albert Camus
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“Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.”
― Albert Camus
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“I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world.”
― Albert Camus, L'Étranger
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“Always go too far, because that's where you'll find the truth”
― Albert Camus
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“Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.”
― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
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“People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.”
― Søren Kierkegaard, The Journals of Kierkegaard

“There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.”
― Soren Kierkegaard

“The greatest hazard of all, losing one’s self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all. No other loss can occur so quietly; any other loss - an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife, etc. - is sure to be noticed.”
― Søren Kierkegaard, The Sickness Unto Death: A Christian Psychological Exposition for Upbuilding and Awakening

“The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you'll never have.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

“To stand up straight with your shoulders back is to accept the terrible responsibility of life, with eyes wide open. It means deciding to voluntarily transform the chaos of potential into the realities of habitable order. It means adopting the burden of self-conscious vulnerability, and accepting the end of the unconscious paradise of childhood, where finitude and mortality are only dimly comprehended. It means willingly undertaking the sacrifices necessary to generate a productive and meaningful reality (it means acting to please God, in the ancient language).”
― Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

It has always seemed to me that my existence consisted purely and exclusively of nothing but the most outrageous nonsense.

Thomas Ligotti, Teatro Grottesco

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

Oscar Wilde

We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses.

Alphonse Karr

I wish to weep
but sorrow is
stupid.
I wish to believe
but belief is a
graveyard.

Charles Bukowski

People really do like seeing their best friends humiliated; a large part of the friendship is based on humiliation; and that is an old truth,well known to all intelligent people.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

- Jim Carrey