“One night in long bygone times, man awoke and saw himself. He saw that he was naked under cosmos, homeless in his own body. All things dissolved before his testing thought, wonder above wonder, horror above horror unfolded in his… — Peter Wessel Zapffe Copy Share Image
“Og er ikke klippen sin tilbedelse værd? Prøver den ikke hjerte og nyrer før den gir plas for de utvalgte?” — Peter Wessel Zapffe Copy Share Image
Each new generation asks – What is the meaning of life? A more fertile way of putting the question would be – Why does… — Peter Wessel Zapffe Copy Share Image
“A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung out into the cosmic brutality without… — Peter Wessel Zapffe Copy Share Image
“The dread of being stares us in the eye, and in a deadly gush we perceive how the minds are dangling in threads of… — Peter Wessel Zapffe Copy Share Image
“But as he stands before imminent death, he grasps its nature also, and the cosmic import of the step to come. His creative imagination… — Peter Wessel Zapffe Copy Share Image
“Her er rummelig og bredt, her slår vi oss ned i en grushaug og spiser mat og drikker saft og ligger på ryggen med… — Peter Wessel Zapffe Copy Share Image
When a human being takes his life in depression, this is a natural death of spiritual causes. The modern barbarity of 'saving' the suicidal… — Peter Wessel Zapffe Copy Share Image
We come from an inconceivable nothingness. We stay a while in something which seems equally inconceivable, only to vanish again into the inconceivable nothingness. — Peter Wessel Zapffe Copy Share Image
“Life had overshot its target, blowing itself apart. A species had been armed too heavily – by spirit made almighty without, but equally a… — Peter Wessel Zapffe Copy Share Image
“Jeg ligger og kjender at jeg hader dette forbandede fjeld, fordi det har makt over mitt sind. Hvad vil du mig - at jeg… — Peter Wessel Zapffe Copy Share Image
To bear children into this world is like carrying wood to a burning house. — Peter Wessel Zapffe Copy Share Image
