Looked like fun to share, so:
“The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.”
― Baruch Spinoza
Notes from Underground is probably my favorite work by Dostoyevsky:
“Talking nonsense is the sole privilege mankind possesses over the other organisms. It's by talking nonsense that one gets to the truth! I talk nonsense, therefore I'm human”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Melodramatic, but Bukowski made that sort of cut work [some strong language below]:
“There's nothing to mourn about death any more than there is to mourn about the growing of a flower. What is terrible is not death but the lives people live or don't live up until their death. They don't honor their own lives, they piss on their lives. They shit them away. Dumb fuckers. They concentrate too much on fucking, movies, money, family, fucking. Their minds are full of cotton. They swallow God without thinking, they swallow country without thinking. Soon they forget how to think, they let others think for them. Their brains are stuffed with cotton. They look ugly, they talk ugly, they walk ugly. Play them the great music of the centuries and they can't hear it. Most people's deaths are a sham. There's nothing left to die.”
― Charles Bukowski
And some Catch-22 to end on:
“He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.”
“Be glad you're even alive.'
Be furious you're going to die.”
― Joseph Heller