top of page
.png){kind=small}
"We define only out of despair, we must have a formula... to give a facade tot he void."
Standard
Customized
More
"After some time he felt for his pipe. It was not broken, and that was something. Then he felt for his pouch, and there was some tobacco in it, and that was something more. Then he felt for matches and he could not find any at all, and that shattered his hopes completely."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Then suddenly you're left all alonewith your body that can't love youand your will that can't save you."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Despair is a form of certainty, certainty that the future will be a lot like the present or will decline from it."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Please give me a single reason why I shouldn't hurl myself beneath the wheels of that bus."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I felt so weak and unhappy that I buried my face in the ground: I could not bear the strain of seeing around me the things of the earth. I felt convinced that every movement and every thought was forced, and that one had to be on one's guard against them."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Waste brings woe, and sorrow hates despair."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Despair is a wholly selfish response to fortune's slings and arrows."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Despair has its own calms."
Author Name
Personal Development
"For all to be accomplished, for me to feel less lonely, all that remained to hope was that on the day of my execution there should be a huge crowd of spectators and that they should greet me with howls of execration."
Author Name
Personal Development
"...to return to their 'native soil,' as they say, to the bosom, so to speak, of their mother earth, like frightened children, yearning to fall asleep on the withered bosom of their decrepit mother, and to sleep there for ever, only to escape the horrors that terrify them."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"You are done for - a living dead man - not when you stop loving but stop hating. Hatred preserves: in it, in its chemistry, resides the mystery of life."
Life
"To venture upon an undertaking of any kind, even the most insignificant, is to sacrifice to envy."
Sacrifice
"Woes and wonders of Power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea."
Power
"Philosophy: Impersonal anxiety; refuge among anemic ideas."
Creativity
"The task of the solitary man is to be even more solitary."
Man
"Our works, whatever they may be, derive from our incapacity to kill or to kill ourselves."
Work
"We would not be interested in human beings if we did not have the hope of someday meeting someone worse off than ourselves."
Hope
"Philosophers write for professors; thinkers for writers."
Creativity
"The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility."
Attention
"Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors."
Progress
bottom of page