I know that these mental disturbances of mine are not…

“In any war, an apt metaphor is that sometimes hands are forced to be played before all the cards have been dealt.”

— Matthew Rozell

On the 17th of May, the Delos put out to sea. I was immediately affected with sea-sickness, which, however, lasted but a short time.…

— John James Audubon

“the elements of a modern creation myth are all around us. It is harmful because it contributes to the subtle but pervasive quality of…

— David Christian

The majority of American writers today have chosen passive non-resistance to things as they are, producing sloughs of poetry about their personal angst and…

— Edward Abbey

“I look and I look... I must have come to the wrong planet. It's so strange here.”

— Sigbjørn Obstfelder

“A self-destructive man feels completely alienated, utterly alone. He's an outsider to the human community. He thinks to himself, "I must be insane." What…

— Richard Linklater

If man merely sat back and thought about his impending termination, and his terrifying insignificance and aloneness in the cosmos, he would surely go…

— Stanley Kubrick

Perfection. Excellence. What a passionate lover. But once having tasted the lips of excellence, once having given oneself to its perfection, how dreary and…

— Harlan Ellison

“Every human being needs a set of norms and rules, traditions and customs, transmitted from the older to the younger; without those norms, the…

— Tzvetan Todorov

Unrestrained automobility, hedonism, individualism, and conspicuous consumption cannot be sustained because they take more than they give back. A spiritually impoverished world cannot be…

— David W. Orr

one sank into the ancient sin of anomie when challenges failed.

— Carolyn Heilbrun

“How then does light return to the world after the eclipse of the sun? Miraculously. Frailly. In thin stripes. It hangs like a glass…

— Virginia Woolf

The era of the political was one of anomie: crisis, violence, madness and revolution. The era of the trans-political is that of anomaly: an…

— Jean Baudrillard

“If you look at the world, you’ll be distressed. If you look within, you’ll be depressed. But if you look at Christ, you’ll be…

— Rick Warren

The superior man is distressed by his want (lack) of ability

— Confucius