Book detail: The Trouble with Being Born is presented as a focused source page for quotations connected with this book, collection, transcript, or source record.
This book delves into the complexities of human existence, examining the challenges and paradoxes of being born into the world.
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“The need for novelty is the characteristic of an alienated gorilla.”
“No position is so false as having understood and still remaining alive.”
“Not to be born is undoubtedly the best plan of all. Unfortunately, it is within no one's reach.”
“We must suffer to the end, to the moment when we stop believing in suffering.”
“Ideas come as you walk, Nietzsche said. Walking dissipates thoughts, Shankara taught.”
“Not one moment when I have not been conscious of being outside Paradise.”
“To defy heredity is to defy billions of years, to defy the first cell”
“Once we begin to want, we fall under the jurisdiction of the Devil.”
“We should have been excused from lugging a body: the burden of the self is enough.”
“There is no false sensation.”
“No longer wanting to be a man..., dreaming of another form of failure.”
“An existence constantly transfigured by failure.”
“In Europe, happiness stops at Vienna. Beyond, misery upon misery, since the beginning.”
“Un livre est un suicide différé.”