![]() – Woody Allen, from Der Spiegel (June 20th, 2005). History is the same thing over and over again.” And now, some Jewish people and some Palestinians are killing each other. Political questions, if you go back thousands of years, are ephemeral, not important. And in my childhood, some Nazis killed Jews. So in 2001, some fanatics killed some Americans, and now some Americans are killing some Iraqis. The history of the world is like: He kills me, I kill him, only with different cosmetics and different castings. “As a filmmaker, I’m not interested in 9/11 it’s too small, history overwhelms it. – Woody Allen, from The New York Times (December 1st, 1975). “There have been times when I’ve thought of suicide but with my luck it’d probably be a temporary solution.” – Emil Cioran, from The Trouble With Being Born (1973). Suicide is a positive act.” And they do calm down.” “When people come to me saying they want to kill themselves, I tell them, “What’s your rush? You can kill yourself any time you like. – Emil Cioran, from A Short History Of Decay (1949). “Nothing proves that we are more than nothing.” – Emil Cioran, from On The Heights Of Despair (1934). ![]() To think all the time, to raise questions, to doubt your own destiny, to feel the weariness of living, to be worn out to the point of exhaustion by thoughts and life, to leave behind you, as symbols of your life’s drama, a trail of smoke and blood – all this means you are so unhappy that reflection and thinking appear as a curse causing a violent revulsion in you.” True thinking resembles a demon who muddies the spring of life or a sickness which corrupts its roots. “Only those are happy who never think or, rather, who only think about life’s bare necessities, and to think about such things means not to think at all. – Arthur Schopenhauer, from his “On The Suffering Of The World”, (1850) “There are two things which make it impossible to believe that this world is the successful work of an all-wise, all-good, and, at the same time, all-powerful being firstly, the misery which abounds in it everywhere and secondly, the obvious imperfection of its highest product, man, who is a burlesque of what he should be.” – Arthur Schopenhauer in a letter addressed to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1819 But most of us carry with us the Jocasta in our hearts, who begs Oedipus, for god’s sake, not to inquire further.” “It is the courage to make a clean breast of it in the face of every question that makes the philosopher. He must be like Sophocles’ Oedipus, who, seeking enlightenment concerning his terrible fate, pursues his indefatigable inquiry even though he divines that appalling horror awaits him in the answer. – William Shakespeare, from “The Tragedy Of Macbeth” (circa 1599-1606) Act V Scene V It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.” “Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more. – Stanley Kubrick, interview for Playboy magazine (September 1968) … The world’s religions, for all their parochialism, did supply a kind of consolation for this great ache … This shattering recognition of our mortality is at the root of far more mental illness than I suspect even psychiatrists are aware.” ![]() Why, he might ask himself, should he bother to write a great symphony, or strive to make a living, or even to love another, when he is no more than a momentary microbe on a dust mote whirling through the unimaginable immensity of space? … Those of us who are forced by their own sensibilities to view their lives in this perspective - who recognize that there is no purpose they can comprehend and that amidst a countless myriad of stars their existence goes unknown and unchronicled - can fall prey all too easily to the ultimate anomie. “If man merely sat back and thought about his impending termination, and his terrifying insignificance and aloneness in the cosmos, he would surely go mad, or succumb to a numbing sense of futility. 1.the tendency to see only what is disadvantageous or gloomy or to anticipate the worst outcome.Ģ.the doctrine that the existing world is the worst of all possible worlds or that all things naturally tend toward evil.ģ.the belief that the evil and pain in the worldoutweigh any goodness or happiness.
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