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,

A British Blue kitten trying to join his sister in an already full goldfish bowl, 1957

“Where pity is preached today, psychologists should keep their ears open, for they will hear a hoarse, groaning, genuine sound of self-contempt.”

—F. Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, §222 (edited excerpt).