“Death anxiety is the mother of all religions, which, in one way or another, attempt to temper the anguish of our finitude.”
“...the more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety. The more you fail to experience your life fully, the more you will fear death.”
“A curious thought experiment. . . Nietzsche's message to us was to live life in such a way that we would be willing to repeat the same life eternally”
“îi urasc pe ceilalti, care ma jefuiesc de solitudinea mea fara sa-mi ofere însa cu adevarat companie. — Ce vrei sa spui, Friedrich? Cum adica nu-ti ofera companie? — Nepretuind lucrurile pe care eu le pretuiesc!”
“Life is a spark between two identical voids, the darkness before birth and the one after death.”
“If we look at life in its small details, how ridiculous it all seems. It is like a drop of water seen through a microscope, a single drop teeming with protozoa. How we laugh as they bustle about so eagerly and struggle with one another. Whether here, or in the little span of human life, this terrible activity produces a comic effect”
“It is wrong to bear children out of need, wrong to use a child to alleviate loneliness, wrong to provide purpose in life by reproducing another copy of oneself. It is wrong also to seek immortality by spewing one's germ into the future as though sperm contains your consciousness!”