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“Biz çocukken böyle büyüdük işte: annelerimizin bir tasarımı olarak. Elbette delirmemek için sürekli onlardan kaçmak zorundaydık.”
― Margit Schreiner, Sevmek Dedikleri

“...Sonsuza dek yaşayacak gibi yaşıyorsunuz, zayıflığınız aklınıza hiç gelmiyor, şimdiden ne çok zamanın geçip gittiğini göz önünde bulundurmuyorsunuz; bir şeye veya birine adadığınız bir gün son gününüz olabilecekken yaşamınızı, tükenmez , dolu bir kaynaktan geliyormuş gibi harcıyorsunuz. Ölümlü olan her şeyden korkuyor, ölümsüz olan her şeyi arzuluyorsunuz.”
― Seneca, Mutlu Yaşam Üzerine ve Yaşamın Kısalığı Üzerine

“After us they'll fly in hot air balloons, coat styles will change, perhaps they'll discover a sixth sense and cultivate it, but life will remain the same, a hard life full of secrets, but happy. And a thousand years from now man will still be sighing, "Oh! Life is so hard!" and will still, like now, be afraid of death and not want to die.”
― Anton Chekhov, Three Sisters: A Translation of the Play

“In Moscow you can sit in an enormous restaurant where you don’t know anybody and where nobody knows you, and you don’t feel all the same that you’re a stranger. And here you know everybody and everybody knows you, and you’re a stranger... and a lonely stranger.”
― Anton Chekhov, The Three Sisters

“I often think, what if one were to begin life over again, knowing what one is about! If one life, which has been already lived, were only a rough sketch so to speak, and the second were the fair copy! Then, I fancy, every one of us would feel compelled not to repeat himself, at the very least to rearrange his manner of life.”
― Anton Chekhov, The Three Sisters

“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour, and that one, is what we are doing. A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time. A schedule is a mock-up of reason and order—willed, faked, and so brought into being; it is a peace and a haven set into the wreck of time; it is a lifeboat on which you find yourself, decades later, still living.”
― Annie Dillard, The Writing Life

“And what has Nature done for you?

Scipio - It consoles me for not being. Ceasar.

Caligula - Really? And do you think Nature could console me for being Ceasar?

Scipio - Why not? Nature has healed worse wounds than that.”
― Albert Camus, Caligula

“There is not much to be got anywhere in the world. It is filled with misery and pain; if a man escapes these, boredeom lies in wait for him at every corner. Nay more; it is evil which generally has the upper hand, and folly that makes the most noise. Fate is cruel and mankind pitiable.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, The Wisdom of Life

“Since everything which exists or happens for a man exists only in his consciousness and happens for it alone, the most essential thing for a man is the constitution of this consciousness, which is in most cases far more important than the circumstances which go to form its contents.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, The Wisdom of Life

“The acceleration of contemporary life also plays a role in this lack of being. The society of laboring and achievement is not a free society. It generates new constraints. Ultimately, the dialectic of master and slave does not yield a society where everyone is free and capable of leisure, too. Rather, it leads to a society of work in which the master himself has become a laboring slave. In this society of compulsion, everyone carries a work camp inside. This labor camp is defined by the fact that one is simultaneously prisoner and guard, victim and perpetrator. One exploits oneself. It means that exploitation is possible even without domination.”
― Byung-Chul Han, The Burnout Society

“In social networks, the function of "friends" is primarily to heighten narcissism by granting attention, as consumers, to the ego exhibited as a commodity.”
― Byung-Chul Han, Müdigkeitsgesellschaft

“Depression—which often culminates in burnout—follows from overexcited, overdriven, excessive self-reference that has assumed destructive traits. The exhausted, depressive achievement-subject grinds itself down, so to speak. It is tired, exhausted by itself, and at war with itself. Entirely incapable of stepping outward, of standing outside itself, of relying on the Other, on the world, it locks its jaws on itself; paradoxically, this leads the self to hollow and empty out. It wears itself out in a rat race it runs against itself.”
― Byung-Chul Han, Müdigkeitsgesellschaft

“Gerçek manasıyla insan olmak için kaç kez gelmemiz gerekiyor bu dünyaya?”
― Susanna Tamaro, Il vento soffia dove vuole

“İlk dakikadan hastalanıyorlar anlıyor musun? Doğuyorsun ve şimdiden tedavi edilecek bir patolojin var diyorlar ama gerçek patolojik bozukluk hayatın bir 'omologasyon/onay' yürüyüşü olduğunu savunmaktır. Ya uyum sağlıyorsun ya hastasın. Ve uyum sağlamak tek bir anlama geliyor: Rekabet ve ölçü denen silahlarla insandan geriye kalan her şeyi yok eden bir sisteme boyun eğmek. Artık hayatın kendisi hastalık olarak kabul ediliyor.”
― Susanna Tamaro, Il vento soffia dove vuole

“Niçin bu kadar bağlıyım geçmiş zamana? De ki: Hayatının boşluğa savrulan yüzünden öyle çok nefret ediyorsun ki, seni mutsuz eden bu yüze yıllarca bakmak, ellerinle kavramak ve anlamak istiyorsun.”
― Latife Tekin, Gece Dersleri

“Kırılmaz ve paslanmaz bir zamana sahip olmak için çok mu öfke gerekli bana.”
― Latife Tekin, Gece Dersleri

“His kind of man needed to lift up his eyes and look as far as possible beyond his own small, limited patch of ground.”
― Robert Seethaler, A Whole Life

“Ölmek rezil bir iş," dedi. "Zamanla azalıyorsun. Birinde çabuk oluyor, bir başkasında iş uzayabiliyor. Doğumdan itibaren art arda kaybediyorsun: Önce ayak parmağını, sonra kolunu, önce bir dişini, sonra bütün dişlerini, önce bir hatıranı, sonra bütün hafızanı, böyle böyle, hiçbir şey kalmayıncaya kadar. Sonra senden kalan son artığı bir çukura atıyorlar, kürekle kapatıyorlar ve bitiyor.”
― Robert Seethaler, Ein ganzes Leben

“I need to make money. I need to write today. I need to clean the bathroom. I need to eat something. I need to quit sugar. I need to cut my hair. I need to call Verizon. I need to savor the moment. I need to find the library card. I need to learn to meditate. I need to try harder. I need to get that stain out. I need to find better health insurance. I need to discover my signature scent. I need to strengthen and tone. I need to be present in the moment. I need to learn French. I need to be easier on myself. I need to buy organizational storage units. I need to call back. I need to develop a relationship with a God of my understanding.”
― Coco Mellors, Cleopatra and Frankenstein

“The earth is alive. I am alive. I wait to feel whatever I’m meant to feel, but nothing comes.”
― Coco Mellors, Cleopatra and Frankenstein

“We will never be loved as much as we were when we were children. This is why childhood is such a cruel time. Its cruelty is in what will come later. Where does this love go after that? Why do we spend the rest of our lives wanting to be loved as we once were? for no other reason than that we exist?”
― Georgi Gospodinov, Natural Novel

“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“Let's face it: I'm scared, scared and frozen. First, I guess I'm afraid for myself... the old primitive urge for survival. It's getting so I live every moment with terrible intensity. It all flowed over me with a screaming ache of pain... remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to become acutely aware of all I've taken for granted. When you feel that this may be good-bye, the last time, it hits you harder.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“These same men who are always in power realize the advantage of vice and unscrupulousness and wish everybody else to be virtuous so that they alone might have the greater benefit of this advantage, and get the upper hand.”
― Marquis de Sade, Justine, Or, The Misfortunes of Virtue

“How I love to hear the rich and titled, the magistrates and the priests, how I love to watch them preach virtue to us! It is very hard to keep oneself from stealing when one has three times more than one to live! A great strain to never think of murder when one is surrounded by sycophants and slaves for whom your will is law! Truly difficult to be temperate and sober when one is at all times surrounded by the most succulent dishes! So difficult for them to be sincere when they have no reason to lie!”
― Marquis de Sade, Justine, or The Misfortunes of Virtue

“Boş inançlara hiç bel bağlamazken, beklenmedik bütün aksilikleri, kötü rastlantıları, karşılaştığın engelleri hep kendi hatalarına yorarken, bir şeyin birden bire yolunda gitmesi -ufacık bir şey de olsa- uğurlu bir belirtge demekti gözünde. Özellikle böyle telaşlı anlarında. O zaman çoktandır yitirdiğin bir şeye kavuşmuşçasına ya da hiç hak etmediğin bir armağan almışçasına yanakların gururla kızarırdı.”
― Tomris Uyar, Otuzların Kadını

“Yolcu, bir gün yolunu yitirirsen, artık eski yolunu bulmaya çalışma, yeni bir yol ara kendine.”
― Ferit Edgü, Hakkâri'de Bir Mevsim

“..Burada hayat bu, dedi, dedi.
Burda hayat bu.
Çaresiz.

...Burda bir başka hayat da olmalı.
Onu arayalım.
Hadi kalk.
Onu bulalım.”
― Ferit Edgü, Hakkâri'de Bir Mevsim

“Sevilmemeyi rahatça kaldırabiliyorsun da sevilmek zor geliyor sana, sen de bunu anlamıyorsun.”
― Tomris Uyar, Aramızdaki Şey