"The vanity of existence is revealed in the whole form existence assumes: in the infiniteness of time and space contrasted with the finiteness of the individual in both; in the fleeting present as the sole form in which actuality exists; in the contingency and relativity of all things; in continual becoming without being; in continual desire without satisfaction; in the continual frustration of striving of which life consists."
Arthur Schopenhauer, On the Vanity of Existence
#Schopenhauer
#pessimism
#life
#philosophy
#currently reading
It’s been a long cold winter…
"I know.
I know and you know, we knew,
we did not know, we
were there, after all, and not there
and at times when
only the void stood between us we got
all the way to each other."
I know and you know, we knew,
we did not know, we
were there, after all, and not there
and at times when
only the void stood between us we got
all the way to each other."
Paul Celan, So Many Constellations
#poem
#currently reading
"I dream of lost
vocabularies that might express some of what
we no longer can."
vocabularies that might express some of what
we no longer can."
Jack Gilbert, from “The Forgotten Dialect of the Heart” (via proustitute)
