لم يمنحوا أنفسهم وقتا و لا جهدا ليقووا أنفسهم أمام الخوف و ليقهروا في أنفسهم الخوف من الموت, بل ساروا بحياتهم مرتعدين لا يؤمنون بغد - Hermann Hesse

In my brain were stored a thousand pictures.

To such men the desperate and horrible thought has come that perhaps the whole of human life is but a bad joke, a violent and ill-fated abortion of the primal mother, a savage and dismal catastophe of nature.

He saw mankind going through life in a childlike manner... which he loved but also despised.... He saw them toiling, saw them suffering, and becoming gray for the sake of things which seemed to him to be entirely unworthy of this price, for money, for little pleasures, for being slightly honoured....