Not evil... passionate !

“You can discard most of the junk that clutters your mind — things that exist only there — and clear out space for yourself: by comprehending the scale of the world; by contemplating infinite time; by thinking of the speed with which things change… the narrow space between our birth and death, the infinite time before, the equally unbounded time that follows.”

There is a type of person for whom life is a more insurmountable problem than for others, for whom the burden of anxiety and fear is almost as constant in his daily breath. Rank used the term "neurotic" for one type of person who was without illusion, who saw things as they were, who was overwhelmed by the fragility of the human enterprise . . .. [The neurotic] is the "realist" that William James talked about when he said that the right reaction to the horrors of organismic life on this planet is the psychotic one. But this kind of "realism," as Rank said, is the most self-defeating of all.

‘Tis the season so I’ll reblog my absolute favorite Terry Pratchett quote ever

“My solitude doesn’t depend on the presence or absence of people; on the contrary, I hate who steals my solitude without, in exchange, offering me true company.”