Life Quote by Will Durant

Were we to undertake an exhaustive self-scrutiny, disgust would paralyze us, we would be doomed to a thankless existence.

— Emile M. Cioran

“[F]or several thousand years we have been obsessed with a false humility—on the one hand, putting ourselves down as mere creatures" who came into…

— Alan W. Watts

“Life is a hideous thing, and from the background behind what we know of it peer daemoniacal hints of truth which make it sometimes…

— H.P. Lovecraft

This is the simple discovery which we must confront. We were given a place in the creation, with a beauty beyond telling, and we…

— Robert Jensen

“And to this world, to this scene of tormented and agonised beings, who only continue to exist by devouring each other, in which, therefore,…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“If disgust for the world conferred sanctity of itself, I fail to see how I could avoid canonization.”

— Emil M. Cioran

“So long as our untried senses and our naïve heart recognize themselves and delight in the universe of qualifications, they flourish with the aid…

— Emil Cioran

“I thought of my friends of the outer world, and of how they all would go on living their lives in total ignorance of…

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

“the pollution of American space...brutalizes the senses, making gray neurotics of most of us, and perverse spiritual athletes and strident self-transcenders of the best…

— Susan Sontag

“If you can manage to see yourself from the outside and accept yourself as a vulnerable organism within the biosphere, rather than focusing on…

— Andreas Weber

Nevertheless so profound is our ignorance, and so high our presumption, that we marvel when we hear of the extinction of an organic being;…

— Charles Darwin

“As the natural coherence of the world vanishes, there's a guilt that grows great and angry in the basement of our beings.”

— Laurens van der Post