Oh words, what crimes are committed in your name? ~Jack or The Submission

Everything that has been will be, everything that will be is, everything that will be has been.

Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.

Why was I born, if it wasn't forever?

No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.

Language should almost break up or explode in its fruitless effort to contain so many meanings.

Only the ephemeral is of lasting value.