Perhaps the reality is in the suffering. But it can't be. Love promises happiness. Art promises happiness. Yet it isn't exactly a promise . . .

Is it true that the first time of falling in love is the worst?""No.

On this planet . . . many things are 'the rule' which are thoroughly evil and pernicious.

There's only one thing the matter and that's everything.

The world is perhaps ultimately to be defined as a place of suffering. Man is a suffering animal, subject to ceaseless anxiety and pain and fear.

Life is horrible, horrible, horrible, said the philosopher.