... what man really fears is not so much extinction, but extinction with insignificance. - Becker

Existence, for all organismic life, is a constant struggle to feed-a struggle to incorporate whatever other organisms they can fit into their mouths and press down their gullets without choking. - Ernest Becker

If you know that everything you do will be a disappointment you will never be disappointed again.

Life is not a theme park, it is a gladiatorial arena.

Give life a specific goal and it immediately loses its attraction. - Cioran

We continually promote the interests of our egos at the ‘expense of others’; life always lives at the expense of others. He who has not grasped this fact has not yet made the first step towards being honest with himself. - Nietzsche

Survival requires that we deceive ourselves. Otherwise, we would not continue with life.

What perishes has never existed.

Beyond all this, the wish to be alone:
However the sky grows dark with invitation-cards - Larkin

At the center of you is void. You are just pretending to live.

What to do? Where to go? Do nothing and go nowhere, easy enough. - Cioran

We are in an era where the masses will sacrifice freedom for security; the illusionary security of the political strongman.

The things you treasure the most are the things that will cause you pain.

Compassion is a waste of feeling, a parasite which is destructive to moral health; ‘there cannot possibly be a duty to increase the ills in the world’. If you do good merely out of compassion, you do good for yourself and not your neighbor. - Nietzsche