David B.

The task of painting the picture of life, often as it has been attempted by poets and philosophers, is nevertheless irrational. Even in the hands of the greatest artist-thinkers, pictures and miniatures of one life only – their own – have come into being, and indeed no other result is possible.

— Friedrich Nietzsche in Human, All Too Human, Part Two, Miscellaneous Maxims and Opinions

He who has never envied the vegetable has missed the human drama.

- Emil Cioran.

The brighter the lightning, the quicker it disappears

Merchant and Death

If there is one thing that nobody ever tells you about young love, it’s that your days are numbered from the start.

The aspiration to ‘save’ the world is the morbid phenomenon of a people’s youth…The more we are dispossessed, the more intense our appetites and our illusions become.

- Emil Cioran

Alaska 1964

If sleep represents the high point of bodily relaxation, deep boredom is the peak of mental relaxation. A purely hectic rush produces nothing new. It reproduces and accelerates what is already available.

— Byung-Chul Han, The Burnout Society

Edvard Munch, Toward the Forest, 1897c-1913,