Look at your body— A painted puppet, a poor toy Of jointed parts ready to collapse, A diseased and suffering thing With a head full of false imaginin….

It has always seemed to me that my existence consisted purely and exclusively of nothing but the most outrageous nonsense..

A: There is no grand scheme of things. B: If there were a grand scheme of things, the fact – the fact – that we are not equipped to perceive it, eith….

The human phenomenon is but the sum Of densely coiled layers of illusion Each of which winds itself on the supreme insanity That there are persons of….

To my mind, a well-developed sense of humor is the surest indication of a person's humanity, no matter how black and bitter that humor may be..

Most people learn to save themselves by artificially limiting the content of consciousness..

Madness, mayhem, erotic vandalism, devastation of innumerable souls - while we scream and perish, History licks a finger and turns the page..

What makes a nightmare nightmarish is the sense that something is happening that should not be. While nightmares are the most convenient reference po….

As a survival-happy species, our successes are calculated in the number of years we have extended our lives, with the reduction of suffering being on….

For optimists, human life never needs justification, no matter how much hurt piles up, because they can always tell themselves that things will get b….

The sinister, the terrible never deceive: the state in which they leave us is always one of enlightenment. And only this condition of vicious insight….

Nonexistence never hurt anyone. Existence hurts everyone..

Everything is ultimately peculiar and ultimately ridiculous..

To be sane, he held, was either to be sedated by melancholy or activated by hysteria, two responses which were 'always and equally warranted for thos….

We live in a permanent state of bad faith, a mutual representation of ourselves to one another for the sake of remaining sane and following our biolo….

No one gives up on something until it turns on them, whether or not that thing is real or unreal..

This, then, is the ultimate, that is only, consolation: simply that someone shares some of your own feelings and has made of these a work of art whic….

As history confirms, people will change their minds about almost anything, from which god they worship to how they style their hair. But when it come….

The only value of this world lay in its power - at certain times - to suggest another world..

And the worst possible thing we could know — worse than knowing of our descent from a mass of microorganisms — is that we are nobodies not somebodies….

While a modicum of consciousness may have had survivalist properties during an immemorial chapter of our evolution – so one theory goes – this facult….