“And here are trees and I know their gnarled surface, water and I feel its taste. These scents of grass and stars at night, certain evenings when the heart relaxes – how shall I negate this world whose power and strength I feel? Yet all the knowledge on earth will give me nothing to assure me that this world is mine.”
Albert Camus: The Myth of Sisyphus
“When the music’s over
Turn out the lights. (…)
Cancel my subscription to the resurrectionSend my credentials to the house of detentionI got some friends insideThe face in the mirror won’t stopThe girl in the window won’t dropA feast of friends, alive she criedWaitin’ for meOutside
“Hell is a feeling, a feeling that you will never be able to escape from; a cold and lonely place for those that found no joy in life, trapped in the shadows of life.”
G. L. Davies, “Haunted: Horror of Haverfordwest”)
“One thing I know,” you said, “is that the longer you spend in darkness, the easier it is for that darkness to become reality. It takes form, it gains life. I’ve spent a lot of time in darkness, Aaron, so much so that I’ve churned it up and stirred it to the surface and made it this real, tangible thing. It lives alongside me.”
– ‘Come with Me’ / Ronald Malfi
“For the sadness generated by the Dream was almost more than he could bear, a deep despair that negated everything good that had happened in his life, that wiped out the joy of his wife and his children and brought him back emotionally to that dark, dark day.
The fear was bad, but it was far preferable.
He experienced that fear now, an emotional vestige of the Dream even more lasting than the nightmare images that remained in his head. It was terror and panic and impotence and frustration, all knotted together in a single overwhelming feeling that would not got away.”
[Bentley Little, The Haunted]
“Er ist ein unwiderstehlicher Misanthrop, all das, was ich mir in jungen Jahren von einem Ehemann erträumt hätte.”
I. Reid, I’m Thinking about Ending Things
“And though my mind is cut by battles
fought so long ago
I return victorious
I am coming home
And if the paths that I have followed
have tread against the flow
there is no need for sorrow
I am coming home”
[The Crüxshadows, ‘Return’]
“Words can be like X‑rays, if you use them properly – they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.”
[A. Huxley, Brave New World]
“Beware
The Average Man
The Average Woman
BEWARE Their Love
Their Love Is Average, Seeks
Average
But There Is Genius In Their Hatred
There Is Enough Genius In Their
Hatred To Kill You, To Kill
Anybody.”
[Excerpt: the genius of the crowd; Ch. Bukowski, Essential Bukowski]
“One could argue that all that really matters is that we learn to deal with where we are at any given moment, not where we were.”