"Hell is other people"
-Jean Paul Sartre, in No Exit, a 1994 existentialist French play
These almost never look like the post edits. This is all a sham.
Canon m50, f5.6 15-45mm
-Essays and Aphorisms, Arthur Schopenhauer
1987
Anyone who fights with monsters should take care that he does not in the process become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes back into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Cold to the bone
“The universe may forget us, but our light will brighten the darkness for eons after we’ve departed this world. The universe may forget us, but it can’t forget us until we’re gone, and we’re still here, our futures still unwritten. We can choose to sit on our asses and wait for the end, or we can live right now. We can march to the edge of the void and scream in defiance. Yell out for all to hear that we do matter. That we are still here, living our absurd bullshit lives, and nothing can take that away from us. Not rogue comets, not black holes, not the heat death of the universe. We may not get to choose how we die, but we can choose how we live. The universe may forget us, but it doesn’t matter. Because we are the ants, and we’ll keep marching on.”
— Shaun David Hutchinson, We Are the Ants
“Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth, more than ruin, more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.”
— Bertrand Russell (via knittingandphilosophy)
Decasia : The State of Decay - Bill Morrison - 2002 (67min)