💬 Quotes

"Mother died today, or maybe yesterday; the timing is irrelevant to the grief that never arrives."

"The universe is fundamentally mute, and our desperate attempts to impose narrative upon it are merely screams into a vast, indifferent silence."

"Facing the guillotine, Meursault finally accepts the world’s benign indifference, finding at last a kinship with the stars."

"We often mistake love for intensity, for drama, for pain—but love is quiet. Love is security."

"I think most of us are essentially alone. We live and we die as individuals, and we are fundamentally incapable of truly understanding or being understood by anyone else."

"It takes a certain amount of courage to face your own darkness, and most people are too scared to do it."

"I’ve learned that people are like the moon; they have a dark side that they never show to anybody."

"Choosing to remain silent is a statement in itself. It is a powerful, impenetrable wall."

"We are all damaged, in one way or another. We are all broken. But we can learn to live with our broken pieces."

"Wer ein Warum zum Leben hat, erträgt fast jedes Wie."

"Die letzte der menschlichen Freiheiten besteht in der Wahl der Einstellung zu den Dingen in einer gegebenen Lebenslage."

"Es kommt nicht darauf an, was wir vom Leben zu erwarten haben, sondern vielmehr darauf, was das Leben von uns erwartet."

"Was den Menschen ausmacht, ist nicht das, was er ist, sondern das, was er in seiner Freiheit aus sich macht."

"Der Mensch ist zu einer solchen Tat fähig, wie er auch zu einer solchen Tat fähig ist; er kann zum Schwein werden, er kann aber auch zum Heiligen werden."

"Call me Ishmael."

"Man kann dem Menschen alles nehmen, außer einem: die letzte der menschlichen Freiheiten – die Einstellung unter beliebigen Umständen wählen zu können, den eigenen Weg zu wählen."

"This above all: to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man."

"To be, or not to be, that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them."

"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy."

"Madness in great ones must not unwatch'd go."