Suicide Unduly Ennobled
There are a lot of things I wish I would have done, instead of just sitting around and complaining about having a boring life.
~Kurt Cobain
God Gifted
What I really need is to get clear about what I must do, not what I must know, except insofar as knowledge must precede every act. What matters is to find a purpose, to see what it really is that God wills that I shall do; the crucial thing is to find a truth which is truth for me, to find the idea for which I am willing to live and die.
~Sören Kierkegaard, Journal entry,1 August 1835
Don’t Believe Everything You Think
I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
~William Faulkner, from The Sound and The Fury