Thahiya’s Reviews > The Book of Disquiet > Status Update

- “I love all this, perhaps because I have nothing else to love, and perhaps also because nothing is worth a human soul’s love, and so it’s all the same – should we feel the urge to give it – whether the recipient be the diminutive form of my inkstand or the vast indifference of the stars.”

:’)

- “Sadly I write in my quiet room, alone as I have always been, alone as I will always be.”

- “Today, in one of the pointless and worthless daydreams that constitute a large part of my inner life, I imagined being forever free”

- “All of this passes, and none of it means anything to me. It’s all foreign to my fate, and even to fate as a whole. It’s just unconsciousness, curses of protest when chance hurls stones, echoes of unknown voices – a collective mishmash of life.”

- “I asked for very little from life, and even this little was denied me.”

quotes i like so far:

- “I was born in a time when the majority of young people had lost faith in God, for the same reason their elders had had it — without knowing why.”

- “Ah, how often my own dreams have raised up before me as things, not to replace reality but to declare themselves its equals,”