I don't find life unbearably grave. I find it almost intolerably frivolous.
It's only after the change is fully formed that you can see what's happened.
The thing about opium is that it makes pain or difficulty unimaginable.
The thunder of false modesty was deafening.
I don't like being rumbled, I like to be invisible.
Knowing one was comprised of recycled matter only and that selfhood was a delusion did not take away the aching of the heart.