Words. They hold tremendous power. Some inspire, uplift, and comfort. Others discourage, upset, and crush. And sometimes, they have a mixture of gallows humor sprinkled in. So here are some quotes for you to digest. I hope they provide some food for your soul.
"If we vanished tomorrow, no organism on this planet would miss us. Nothing in nature needs us." — Thomas Ligotti
"All sin is a kind of lying." — St. Augustine
"Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable." — Ambrose Bierce
"A premature death does not only rob one of the countless instances where one would have experienced pleasure. It also saves one from the innumerable instances where one would have experienced pain." — Mokokoma Mokhonoana
"Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is." — Albert Camus

"I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active—not more happy—nor more wise, than he was 6,000 years ago." — Edgar Allan Poe
"I delight in what I fear." — Shirley Jackson
"No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true." — Nathaniel Hawthorne
"Everything in the world displeases me: but, above all, my displeasure in everything displeases me." — Friedrich Nietzsche
"People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as 'nauseatingly miserable beyond repair.'" — Franz Kafka
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