Of all calumnies the worst is the one which attacks our indolence, which contests its authenticity. - Emil Cioran

"I ask myself; Why is it that only some people suffer? Why are only some selected from the ranks of normal people and put on the torture rack? Some religions maintain that God is trying us through suffering, or that we expiate evil and unbelief through it. If such an explanation can satisfy the religious man, it is not sufficient for anyone who notices that suffering is arbitrary and unjust, because the innocent often suffer most. There is no valid justification for suffering. Suffering has no hierarchy of values.", in essay: the monopoly of suffering

If someone incessantly drops the word "life," you know he's a sick man.

Mind, even more deadly to empires than to individuals, erodes them, compromises their solidity.