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).

The barns, 1926 - by Ture Sellman

Beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror, which we still are just able to endure, and we are so awed because it serenely disdains to annihilate us. Every angel is terrifying.

- Rainer Maria Rilke.

If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.