Awaken in the silent night

"We are all islands shouting lies across the seas of misunderstanding"

“The Greek word for "return" is nostos. Algos means "suffering." So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.”

San Jose, Costa Rica - 2025

“Life is a movement, a constant movement in relationship; and thought, trying to capture that movement in terms of the past, as memory, is afraid of life”

“No matter where you are, you’re always a bit on your own, always an outsider.”

“I am nothing. I'll never be anything. I couldn't want to be something. Apart from that, I have in me all the dreams in the world.”

“I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses”

“Humans, not places, make memories”

“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.”

“One of the saddest things in life, is the things one remembers”

“Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting”

“From an evolutionary point of view, most emotions - fear, desire, anger - serve some practical purpose, but nostalgia is a useless, futile thing because it is a longing for something that is permanently lost . . . .”

“The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.”

“Humans make art to remember and be remembered,” said Caius. “Art is their weapon against forgetting”

“The Greek word for "return" is nostos. Algos means "suffering." So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.”

“We must understand that sadness is an ocean, and sometimes we drown, while other days we are forced to swim”

“Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.”