There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe ... but not for us.

- Franz Kafka

Haunting oil paintings by Karl Wennergren

Henri Regnault - Execution

The Dying Saint Sebastian (Detail), 1789. by François-Xavier Fabre (1766-1837)

Lola Gil

Bahía Blanca (Jesús Franco, 1984)

When I look at my life and its secret colours, I feel like bursting into tears.

- Albert Camus, A Happy Death

Ecce Homo, 1925, Lovis Corinth

I used to advertise my loyalty and I don't believe there is a single person I loved that I didn't eventually betray.

- Albert Camus, The Fall

Walter Bonatti ascending a face on Mont Blanc

When the soul suffers too much, it develops a taste for misfortune.

- Albert Camus, The First Man

Riding with Death, Jean-Michel Basquiat, 1988

The love boat has crashed against the everyday
You and I, we are quits
And there is no use listing mutual hurts, sorrows, and pains.

- Vladimir Mayakovsky, Selected Poems

Even the voice of conscience undergoes mutation.

- Stanisław Jerzy Lec, More Unkempt Thoughts

Richard Teschner