Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
"...the world was not created for Mankind, and for at least half of the year it shows us how very hostile it is to us."
"It is in the feet that all knowledge of Mankind lies hidden; the body sends them a weighty sense of who we really are and how we relate to the earth."
"Anger makes the mind clear and incisive, able to see more. It sweeps up the other emotions and takes control of the body. Without a doubt Anger is the source of all wisdom, for Anger has the power to exceed any limits."
"Sometimes I feel as if we're living inside a tomb, a large, spacious one for lots of people. I looked at the world wreathed in gray Murk, cold and nasty. The prison is not outside, but inside each of us. Perhaps we simply don't know how to live without it."
"It is at Dusk that the most interesting things occur, for that is when simple differences fade away. I could live in everlasting Dusk."
"I realize that sorrow is an important word for defining the world. It lies at the foundations of everything, it is the fifth element, the quintessence."
"In a way, people like her, those who wield a pen, can be dangerous. At once a suspicion of fakery springs to mind -- that such a Person is not him- or herself, but an eye that's constantly watching, and whatever it sees it changes into sentences; in the process it strips reality of its most essential quality -- its inexpressibility."
"I interpret everything as abnormal, terrible and threatening."
"I realized that I had unintentionally brought her (*the ghost of her mother) here from somewhere else -- it was my fault she was here."
"One period of grief is followed by another, so I am in constant mourning. This is my natural state."
"They fear pathos more than hell."
"...he who suffers sees the back of God...Maybe it means that he who suffers has special access to God, by a side door, he is blessed, he embraces some sort of truth which without suffering would be hard to comprehend. So in a way, the only person who's healthy is one who suffers..."
"We trustingly went to and fro beneath the sky, which had nothing good in store for us."
"There are places we don't choose to visit, and yet something draws us to them. Possibly that something is Dread."
"Here my tears could flow, bathing my eyes and improving my sight. Maybe that's why I could see more than people with dry eyes."
"It's strange how the Night erases all colors, as if it didn't give a damn about such worldly extravagance."
"After the rain, when the Sun breaks through the clouds for a while, everything takes on such depth that one's eyes are filled with tears."
"...in spite of our fragility and ignorance, we have an incredible advantage over the stars -- it is for us that time works, giving us a major opportunity to transform the suffering, aching world into a happy and peaceful one."
"'...sometimes it seems to me we're living in a world that we fabricate for ourselves. We decide what's good and what isn't, we draw maps of meanings for ourselves... And then we spend our whole lives struggling with what we have invented for ourselves. The problem is that each of us has our own version of it, so people find it hard to understand each other."
"...the human psyche evolved in order to defend us against seeing the truth... makes sure we'll never understand what's going on around us... For it would be impossible to carry the weight of this knowledge. Because every tiny particle of the world is made of suffering."
"But why should we have to be useful and for what reason? Who divided the world into useless and useful, and by what right?... Everyone knows the profit to be reaped from the useful, but nobody knows the benefit to be gained from the useless."
"For if evil created the world, then good must destroy it."