Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of to-day; or the agonies which are have their origins in ecstasies which might have been.

David Bowie, 1973, East Berlin

Your first thought upon awakening be: ‘Atom’. For you should not begin your day with the illusion that what surrounds you is a stable world. Already to-morrow it can be ‘something that only has been’: for we, you, and I and our fellow men are ‘more mortal’ and 'more temporal’ than all who, until yesterday, had been considered mortal.

— Günther Anders, from “Commandments in the Atomic Age"

“Terrible experiences pose the riddle whether the person who has them is not terrible.”

—F. Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, §89.

China. Guangxi province. 1980.

The corrupted heart. Chalk lessons. 1896

Serial killer Chikatilo is awoken to be excorted to his execution. 1994

Rainy Night Walk, Slaithwaite, West Yorkshire, England, 1984

Indifferent, 1900 by Paul-Albert Besnard

“Who has not, for the sake of his good reputation, sacrificed himself once?”

—F. Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, §92.

Nastya Poleva, singer, musician 1980s

“Affability contains no hatred of men, but for that very reason too much contempt for men.”

—F. Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, §93.