existential – Page 5 – Love the Dust

Slow wilting is what it is called

So many flowers, stepped upon and decayed before I had a chance to see themMore

Only a catastrophe can save us. –Zizek, paraphrasing Heidegger, who said in his Der Spiegel inteview, “only a god can save us.”More

This world . . . ever was, and is, and shall be, ever-living Fire, in measures being kindled and in measure going out. –HeraclitusMore

The best turned weary of their works. –Thus Spoke ZarathustraMore

Boredom rests upon the nothingness that winds its way through existence… –KierkegaardMore

There was another, even more unexpected guest behind him when I opened the doorMore

There will be no ‘other world’More

It will not be televised, it will not be seenMore

O ME, man of slack faith so long! / Standing aloof—denying portions so long…. –WhitmanMore

Awakening is a bound…a bound out of the drunkenness of remorse and resentment. –Alphonso LingisMore

The ‘Kingdom of Heaven’ is a condition of the heart — not something that comes ‘upon the earth’ or ‘after death’. –NietzscheMore

Then they set out along the blacktop in the gunmetal light, shuffling through the ash, each the other’s world entire. –Cormac McCarthyMore

Oh, Echo! Where are you? Where are you? Where are you…?More

Our ancestors had faces, surely. But their ancestors?More

Poverty is joy joy joy, the joy of seeing and feeling life unclothedMore