Cioran Quote by Tomislav Sunic

“... to his efforts to perpetuate man: but he has preserved nothing but sensations; and, although his invention was incomplete, he at least foreshadowed…

— Adolfo Bioy Casares

“However, in ordinary life, one cannot live by such principles. Imagine the time it would take if every aspect of experience had to be…

— Diane Setterfield

“Everybody knows deep down that life is as much about the things that do not happen as the things that do and that’s not…

— Claire-Louise Bennett

“We need to be virtually bludgeoned into detachment from our daily lives, our habits and mental laziness, which conceal from us the strangeness of…

— Eugène Ionesco

“But at night we began dreaming of Man's perfect world without humanity (57)”

— Walter Mosley

“Living REALITY:LOOK FOWARD TO SOMETHING EVERY DAY”

— Audrey M. VIrges

“How do you smuggle daydreams into reality?”

— David Mitchell

“In conjunction with the freedom to daydream under the influence of dope and movies and the radio, it will help to reconcile his subjects…

— Aldous Huxley

“Here, in the vast expanse of nothingness, one confronts the depths of their own existence, unburdened by the trappings of modern life.”

— Ryan Gelpke

“At the bottom of the modern man there is always a great thirst for self-forgetfulness, self-distraction; he has a secret horror of all which…

— Henri-Frédéric Amiel

“No man lives, can live, without having some object in view, and making efforts to attain that object.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“There seemed to be no end to the imaginative damage people could do to each other when the influences of societal pressures were removed.…

— Steve R. Yeager