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Peter Wessel Zapffe has 16 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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In accordance with my conception of life, I have chosen not to bring children into the world. A coin is examined, and…
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Man is a tragic animal. Not because of his smallness, but because he is too well endowed. Man has longings and spiritual…
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We come from an inconceivable nothingness. We stay a while in something which seems equally inconceivable, only to vanish again into the…
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The seed of a metaphysical or religious defeat is in us all. For the honest questioner, however, who doesn't seek refuge in…
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The tragedy of a species becoming unfit for life by over-evolving one ability is not confined to humankind. Thus it is thought,…
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Each new generation asks – What is the meaning of life? A more fertile way of putting the question would be –…
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Know yourselves- be infertile and let the earth be silent after ye.
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A coin is turned around before it is handed to the beggar, yet a child is unflinchingly tossed into cosmic bruteness.
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When a human being takes his life in depression, this is a natural death of spiritual causes. The modern barbarity of 'saving'…
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The immediate facts are what we must relate to. Darkness and light, beginning and end.
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Mankind ought to end its existence of its own will.
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If one regards life and death as natural processes, the metaphysical dread vanishes, and one obtains peace of mind.
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Man would not be man if his dreams did not exceed his grasp... If I remember the sunflower forest it is because…
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The seed of a metaphysical or religious defeat is in us all. For the honest questioner, however, who doesn't seek refuge in…
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I seek refuge in Thee from every hope which would distract me.
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Hipsters seek refuge in church, Our Lady of Perpetual Subculture. There is some discussion as to whether or not they are still…
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When something is bothering me, I seek refuge. No need to travel far; a trip to the realm of literary memory will…
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Already, he was dreaming of a refined solitude, a comfortable desert, a motionless ark in which to seek refuge from the unending…
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In the name of God, the merciful, and the compassionate! Say: I seek refuge with the Lord and Cherisher of Mankind,The King…
— Quran
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