Kunal

“Here we are and there we go:---but where?”
― Lord Byron, Lord Byron Selected Poems - Folio Society Edition

“It bothered me that whatever was waiting wasn't waiting for me”
― Jean Anouilh, Antigone

“Most of our tensions and frustrations stem from compulsive needs to act the role of someone we are not. —János (Hans) Selye, M.D., The Stress of Life”
― Gabor Maté, The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture

“How easy it is to recommend joy to those who cannot be joyful! How can one haunted by madness be joyful? Do all those who are so eager to promote joy realize what it means to feel and fear madness closing in, to live all your life with the tormenting presentiment of madness, to which is added the even more persistent and certain consciousness of death? Joy may very well be a state of bliss, but it can only be reached naturally. […] Since we cannot be joyful, there only remains the road of agony, of mad exaltation. Let us live the agony fully; let us live our inner tragedy absolutely and frenetically to the very end! All we have left is paroxysm, and when it subsides, there will be just one wisp of smoke…our inner fire will ravish all.”
― Emil Cioran, On the Heights of Despair