#tent

Aujourd'hui, maman est morte. Ou peut-être hier, je ne sais pas. J'ai reçu un télégramme de l'asile : « Mère décédée. Enterrement demain. Sentiments distingués. » Cela ne veut rien dire. C'était peut-être hier. ↗

— Albert Camus

#existentialism #nihilism #existentialism

The day had been spent in the expectation of these hours, and now they were crumbling away, becoming, in their turn, another period of expectancy...It was a journey without end, leading to an indefinite future, eternally shifting just as she was reaching the present. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#existentialism

It is suicide to be abroad. But what it is to be at home, ... what it is to be at home? A lingering dissolution. ↗

— Samuel Beckett

#existentialism #philosophy #existentialism

Intermittently she caught the gist of his sentences and supplied the rest from her subconscious, as one picks up the striking of a clock in the middle with only the rhythm of the first uncounted strokes lingering in the mind. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#hearing #inattention #listening #senses #first-sentence

I am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he to whom that is given need ask no more. ↗

— Henry Fielding

#inner-peace #inner-peace

The joke of our time is the suicide of intention. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#joke #our #our time #suicide #time

If it had been our intention to take Iraq, if it had been our intention to destroy the country, if it had been our intention to overrun the country, we could have done it unopposed. ↗

— Norman Schwarzkopf

#could #country #destroy #done #had

There was never sufficient evidence presented at my trial to support a finding of intent to kill. ↗

— Jack Henry Abbott

#finding #intent #kill #never #presented

It is more difficult to keep the attention of hearers than of readers. ↗

— Lascelles Abercrombie

#difficult #hearers #keep #more #readers

I think a lot of times we don't pay enough attention to people with a positive attitude because we assume they are naive or stupid or unschooled. ↗

— Amy Adams

#assume #attention #attitude #because #enough