June 2013
“Some people say that time cures all wounds, but I think that time is the wound.”
—Mick Mars (via queenofthecarnival)
“Neka se sam Bog pomoli za onoga u kom nema više šta da umre…”
—Emil Cioran, Suze i sveci
“How does one convince a depressed person that “everything is all right” when her life really does suck?”
—Christopher S. Putnam (via blackestdespondency)
“Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (via mycolorbook)
“Fuck my face
Fuck my name
They are brief and false advertisements
For a soul I don’t have” —Conor Oberst from False Advertising (via unplesant)
Fuck my name
They are brief and false advertisements
For a soul I don’t have” —Conor Oberst from False Advertising (via unplesant)
According to Forbes, the least valuable college majors include English, history, anthropology, humanities, philosophy, art, and music. It should be questioned whether a society that so undervalues these fields deserves to continue.
“Nevažno je koji način razaranja izabereš. Neko sebe sahranjuje u biblioteci, neko u kafani. Rezultat je isti. Način samorazaranja potrđuje nešto samo o načinu tog čovjeka. Kaži mi kako se uništavaš, reći ću ti ko si. Zapravo, kaži mi čime ispunjavaš samoću; knjigama, ženama, ambicijama. Svuda je polazna točka dosada, a cilj uništenje.”
—Emil Cioran, Suze i sveci
“So many memories and so little worth remembering, and in front of me — a long, long road without a goal…”
—Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons (via carcissus)
“Conversations bore me, to visit people bores me, the sorrows and joys of my relatives bore me to my soul.”
—Franz Kafka, from Diaries (via violentwavesofemotion)
“Let us for a moment imagine that the act of procreation were not a necessity or accompanied by intense pleasure, but a matter of pure rational deliberation; could then the human race really continue to exist? Would not everyone rather feel so much sympathy for the coming generation that he would prefer to spare it the burden of existence, or at any rate would not like to assume in cold blood the responsibility of imposing on it such a burden? The world is just a hell and in it human beings are the tortured souls on the one hand, and the devils on the other. I suppose I shall have to be told again that my philosophy is cheerless and comfortless simply because I tell the truth, whereas people want to hear that the Lord has made all things very well. Go to your churches and leave us philosophers in peace!”
—Arthur Schopenhauer, Additional Remarks on the Doctrine of the Suffering of the World (via hyperboreanvoyager)
“Don’t distinguish what he feels with the word existential. It has nothing to do with philosophy. He believes he’s nothing, and it appears he’s correct. This is called depression, but it may simply be a realistic view of the situation.”
—Roger Ebert, Somewhere (Review)
The Cold Part
Modest Mouse
So long to this cold, cold part of the world
So long to this bone-bleached part of the world
So long to this salt-soaked part of the world
I stepped down as president of Antarctica
Can’t blame me
Don’t blame me
So long to this sad, sad part of the world
So long
“Do I look like someone who has something to do here on earth?’ —That’s what I’d like to answer the busybodies who inquire into my activities.”
—Emil Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born (via heaveninourarms)
“If anyone would like to hit me, they are perfectly welcome. I must warn you, though, that I might enjoy it. So maybe it’s not the right kind of punishment.”
—Lars von Trier (via aportainferi)
