25 Quotes by Simon Brass

I guess that some of us who have no why to live can still bear almost any how.

Today, I am going to kill myself. Or maybe tomorrow, I don’t know

That which does not kill me only makes me disappointed.

Don’t you have goals or dreams?”“I can’t think of a dream worth believing in or a goal worth aspiring to. How about making it through today… is that a dream or a goal?

Whither is intelligence? I will tell you. We have killed it – you and I.

Here the professor fell silent and looked again at the camera crew. They, too, were silent and stared at him in astonishment. In anguish, the professor threw his tiki torch to the ground, where it broke into several pieces and went out. “I have come too early, my time is not yet. They have not realized that intelligence is dead, and yet they have done it themselves.

Hemingway said that happiness in intelligent people was rare but shit even contentment amongst the mediocre is hard to fathom.

There is an emptiness in life that cannot be described, about which one cannot speak. We must pass over it in silence

On Sundays when I need something to lift my spirits, I do one of two things: I patrol the neighborhood scouring the items on display at garage sales, or I go to a box store. I crave the fleeting bliss of object accumulation. It’s an escape from reality, but I don’t feel any shame. At the end of the day that’s what we’re all in the market for.