The Shadow, The Darkness

"Now, when the moon is full and threatening, we have dreams of the futures we will never see."

At some point I became terrified by the prospect of happiness.

"Forces so much more powerful and complex than us and our species will right the ship, so to speak, and we will be the collateral damage. That's just the way it's going to be. Nobody heeded anybody's warnings, and we're a foolish species. It's over. So all you can do, really, is try to contribute to the horror as little as possible while forming circles of community and friendship with like-minded people that have more of a "do no harm" thought they try to follow. As far as a call to arms or action..." "We're too late?" "Yeah."

In general, I am tired of the saccharine pleasantness of human existence.

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you will ever have.

Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.

What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: "This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more" … Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus? Or have you once experienced a tremendous moment when you would have answered him: "You are a god and never have I heard anything more divine."