39 quotes found
“Each person must implement their preferred problem solving method to address existential questions pertaining to life and death, living and loving, working and playing, resting and restructuring.”
“We are all insects. Groping towards something terrible or divine.”
“Acts of violence-- Whether on a large or a small scale, the bitter paradox: the meaningfulness of death--and the meaninglessness of killing.”
“It occurred to him that his scarcely perceptible attempts to struggle against what was considered good by the most highly placed people, those scarcely noticeable impulses which he had immediately ...”
“We lose everything because everything remains except us. And therefore any form of posterity may be an affront, and perhaps any memory, as well.”
“We've been dead for thousands and thousands of years. Dead or sleeping, depends on how you feel about it at any given moment. But that's okay. The trouble starts when you are born, then everything ...”
“You think its a game?Unintelligible? Ha!Envision no spoons.This is serious.It is a matter of joyversus emptiness.”
“We co-existed in peaceful detachment”
“I skipped the thirty-one years between 1938 and 1965 and jumped to the section entitled Junitaki Today. Of course, the books today being 1970, it was hardly todays today. Still, writing the history...”
“So, here we are, all of us poor bewildered darlings, wandering adrift in a universe too big and too complex for us, clasping and ricochetting off other people too different and too perplexing for u...”
“Theres no way to really preserve a person when theyve gone and thats because whatever you write down its not the truth, its just a story. Stories are all were ever left with in our head or on paper...”
“I'd come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language.”
“I believe that individuals nowadays are probably more aware of their inner loneliness than has ever been true before in history.”
“These solitary ones who are free in spirit know thatin one thing or another they must constantly put on an appearance that is different from the way they think; although they want nothing but truth...”
“Not every conflict is necessarily neurotic; some amount of conflict is normal and healthy. In a similar sense suffering is not always a pathological phenomenon; rather than being a symptom of neuro...”
“Just then his state of being was so curious that he was compelled , himself, to see it -- eager, grieving, fantastic, dangerous, crazed and, to the point of death, "comical." It was enough to make ...”
“Healthy introspection, without undermining oneself; it is a rare gift to venture into the unexplored depths of the self, without delusions or fictions, but with an uncorrupted gaze.”
“I wondered, as I wondered so often when I was that age, who /I/ was, and what exactly was looking at the face in the mirror. If the face I was looking at wasn't me, and I knew it wasn't, because I ...”
“Yes! Very funny this terrible thing is. A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea. If he tries to climb out into the air as inexperienced people endeavour to do, he dr...”
“I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself.”
