Quote by Michel Leiris

“Pleasure, scarcely in one instance, is ever able to reach ecstasy and rapture; and in no one instance can it continue for any time…

— David Hume

“...until the fear of catastrophe amends, or catastrophe itself destroys...”

— Reinhold Niebuhr

“The calamities we experience here are only temporary phenomena. Each disaster reminds us that a disaster-free eternity”

— David Jeremiah

“Realizations of Revelations What worldly thing did not eventually become a source of suffering? The end of the world. It just gets harder. And…

— Joe Churchwell

“It's all impermanent, and in perfect rapture”

— Brian E. Miller

“One catastrophe at a time...”

— Birgit Von Schondorf

“I was encouraged to ask in all seriousness what this life is for, what matters most for myself and others, what non-negotiable values I…

— Stephen Batchelor

“I confess that I consider life to be a thing of the most untouchable deliciousness, and that even the confluence of so many disasters…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“Never so sure our rapture to create As when it touch'd the brink of all we hate.”

— William Hazlitt

“the suffering experienced here on earth is but for a moment, and it pales in comparison to the glory which will be revealed.”

— Cassandra Baker-Durham

“It was a sudden revelation, a tinge like a blush which one tried to check and then, as it spread, one yielded to its…

— Virginia Woolf

“It was a great fucking time, the short era of disaster euphoria, for nothing enhances pleasures and blocks guilt like a looming cataclysm.”

— Aleksandar Hemon