Life is always frightful. We cannot help it and we are responsible all the same. One's born and at once one is guilty. You must have had a remarkable… - Hermann Hesse

Life is always frightful. We cannot help it and we are responsible all the same. One's born and at once one is guilty.

Life is always frightful. We cannot help it and we are responsible all the same. One's born at once one is guilty.

It isn't down in any map; true places never are.

He had too much to think about. In the course of his long, useless marches he had sunk deeper and deeper into the tangle of his botched life as into a clump of brambles, and still he had found no meaning or consolation.

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.