"How does one convince a depressed person that “everything is all right” when her life really does suck?"Christopher S. Putnam (via blackestdespondency)20
"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)334
"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)
"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)30
"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)32
"The melancholic Justine isn’t just longing. She is longing for pathos and drama. She is longing for something of true value. And true value entails suffering. That’s the way we think. All in all, we tend to view melancholia as more true. We prefer music and art to contain a touch of melancholia. So melancholia itself is a value […] Longing is true. It may be that there’s no truth at all to long for, but the longing itself is true. Just like pain is true. We feel it inside. It’s part of reality"Lars von Trier on Melancholia (via you-dont-know-where-ive-been)