Blog — Quotes

He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.

For in much wisdom is much grief,
And he who increases knowledge increases sorrow.

The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.

They say nothing lasts forever but they’re just scared it will last longer than they can love it.

Because freedom, I am told, is nothing but the distance between the hunter and its prey.

I was once foolish enough to believe knowledge would clarify, but some things are so gauzed behind layers of syntax and semantics, behind days and hours, names forgotten, salvaged and shed, that simply knowing the wound exists does nothing to reveal it.

The first step: Don't be anxious. Nature controls it all. And before long you'll be no one, nowhere—like Hadrian, like Augustus.
The second step: Concentrate on what you have to do. Fix your eyes on it. Remind yourself that your task is to be a good human being; remind yourself what nature demands of people. Then do it, without hesitation, and speak the truth as you see it. But with kindness. With humility. Without hypocrisy.

Today I escaped from anxiety. Or no, I discarded it, because it was within me, in my own perceptions—not outside.