32 quotes found
“Mother used to say that however miserable one is, theres always something to be thankful for. And each morning, when the sky brightened and light began to flood my cell, I agreed with her.”
“We refuse to despair of mankind. Without having the unreasonable ambition to save men, we still want to serve them.”
“I am unable to believe in a God susceptible to prayer. I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits, and then suddenly stops in ...”
“If I convince myself that this life has no other aspect than that of the absurd, if I feel that its whole equilibrium depends on that perpetual opposition between my conscious revolt and the darkne...”
“Of whom and of what can I say: "I know that"! This heart within me I can feel, and I judge that it exists. This world I can touch, and I likewise judge that it exists. There ends all my knowledge, ...”
“This book first arose out of a passage in Borges, out of the laughter that shattered, as I read the passage, all the familiar landmarks of my thoughtour thought that bears the stamp of our age and ...”
“Don't you think our society is designed to kill in that way? Of course, you've surely heard about those tiny fish in the rivers of Brazil which attack the swimmer by the thousands, eat him up in a ...”
“. . . Absurdism was really just realism seen from close to the bottom.”
“One can show one's contempt for the cruelty and stupidity of the world by making of one's life a poem of incoherence and absurdity.”
“The arrow of time obscures memory of both past and future circumstance with innumerable fallacies, the least trivial of which is perception.”
“Here in Alpha City, we have a common saying: What we call sky is merely a figment of our narrative. The most dreamy-eyed among us seem to adorn themselves and their aspirations in that proverb and ...”
“Whereas modern cynicism brought despair about the ability of the human species to realize laudable ideals, postmodern cynicism doesn't not because it's optimistic, but because it can't take ideals...”
“It is a matter of living in that state of the absurd I know on what it is founded, this mind and this world straining against each other without being able to embrace each other. I ask for the rule...”
“Therefore, in my incontrovertible capacity as plaintiff and defendant judge and accused, I condemn this nature, which has so brazenly and unceremoniously inflicted this suffering since I am unable ...”
“Back in our apartment, lights out, The Professor emerged from beneath the bed." - from "The Professor Spends the Night," in issue 4 of Literary Orphans”
“Existence is illusory and it is eternal.”
“But if one doesn't really exist, one wonders why..." she hesitated."Why one makes such a fuss about things," Anthony suggested. "All that howling and hurrahing and gnashing of teeth. About the adve...”
“Fighting for freedom is a myth. Theres only freedom in uniting. Youre not really free with an, Us vs Them mentality; because you are constantly defending yourself. And in fighting, theres no time f...”
“Youre better looking than me. Youre more intelligent than me. Your personality is more likable than mine. You make more money than me. Your family is nicer than mine. Your religion is better than m...”
“...just because someone is a loner, it doesn't mean theyre alone. And just because someone is alone, it doesn't mean theyre lonely.”
