Mark

“[Depression is] like combating the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse with a handful of popcorn. But that handful of popcorn keeps you going. There is no sense in going on, there is no sense in any of those things, but thank God one does not live by reason alone.”
― James Tiptree Jr.

“The world is a strange place, thought Haupt, alone in the dark, almost unbearably so. And yet, it is the only place I have. And I'm not even entirely sure I have it. ”
― Brian Evenson, Song for the Unraveling of the World: Stories

“It is not things that trouble us,” as Epictetus said, “but our judgment about things,”
― Pierre Hadot, The Inner Citadel: The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius

“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.”
― Ernest Hemingway