"On the Heights of Despair" Quotes
Exploring the depths of existential despair, this book presents a haunting and introspective account of human suffering.
philosophy | 154 pages | Published in 1996
Quotes
Every sigh is a scream suppressed.
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
No one possesses the truth; reality is not something you possess, it is something you penetrate.
In time, we are all losers - even the winners are losers.
I write only for myself, for my own pleasure. And I want to have the courage and the audacity to write whatever I want.
We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
Loneliness is the remedy for the chaotic confusion of the world.
To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.
Nobody is interested in what you are feeling - only in what you can make people believe you are feeling.
What really frightens and dismays us is not external events themselves, but the way in which we think about them. It is not things that disturb us, but our interpretation of their significance.
