"For me, a desert island is no tragedy,……" — Peter Wessel Zapffe
"For me, a desert island is no tragedy, neither is a deserted planet."
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16 Quotes by Peter Wessel Zapffe
Peter Wessel Zapffe has 16 quotes on this site.
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In accordance with my conception of life, I have chosen not to bring children into the world. A coin is…
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Man is a tragic animal. Not because of his smallness, but because he is too well endowed. Man has longings…
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We come from an inconceivable nothingness. We stay a while in something which seems equally inconceivable, only to vanish again…
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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…
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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…
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Each new generation asks – What is the meaning of life? A more fertile way of putting the question would…
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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…
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When a human being takes his life in depression, this is a natural death of spiritual causes. The modern barbarity…
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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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