14 Quotes by Gabe Habash

A library of mostly unread books is far more inspiring than a library of books already read. There’s nothing more exciting than finishing a book, and walking over to your shelves to figure out what you’re going to read next."[The Wonderful and Terrible Habit of Buying Too Many Books, PWxyz (news blog of Publishers Weekly), February 16th, 2012]

Różnica między dorosłymi a dziećmi polega na tym, że dorośli mają mnóstwo problemów, a dzieci tylko jeden, największy

More and more things keep happening to me. Insignificant things and significant things and boring things and sacred things and terrible things and nice things and strange things. They disguise themselves as new events but really I know what they are, they’re ancient events that have happened before and they’ve just run to the back of the line to wait their turn again.

Eventually I realized, while watching the cat turn its ears and listen and watch out the window and clean itself five times a day, that attention was its own kind of existence.

Life and the human condition are the exact same thing and it makes no difference, the design is sadness, gravitational and old, except the few times it hiccups and it’s not.

Melancholy is a term I learned about in my reading and I’ve discovered it can be wildly addictive to nurse one’s own melancholy, needless to say.

The end is the point of wanting something in the first place, isn’t it?

When you try to talk to God you don’t get him, instead you just get a sniveling little assistant who says he’ll relay your question and who goes around the corner for thirty seconds and reports back what he says God whispered in his ear, but you know that’s not what he’s done, there’s no one around the corner, he just stood there and counted off a reasonable time. As you know, that’s what religion is.

I have good news and bad news! The bad news is that the abyss and the void are all the same thing and it is monumental and everywhere. The good news is you can lie still in your bed while the cursed and the unskinned walk around in it and not feel a thing.