Jacob H. Kyle Books & Quotes

“Life belies its candour in loss. The squalor of existence is a curse, a vulgar oath not to be rescinded. Life at its best is life at its worst. Every blissful moment is contrasted by whimpering rape and shared worst days. Silence implicates life’s precedent. Flagellated chaos. Endless torture. Elsewhere. Everywhere.”

Life Loss Existence Silence Chaos Curse Torture Pessimism

Book:The Tedium Lies

Source: The Tedium Lies

“Silence is the pesticide of language. Let the soil of your mind decompose. Enough flowers.”

Language Silence Zen Taoism Pessimism Nihilism

Book:The Tedium Lies

Source: The Tedium Lies

“Art always dies before society does as history shows and to our era at humanity’s end the world was glad to be rid of what it never had to understand”

Art Poetry Humanity History Society

Book:The Tedium Lies

Source: The Tedium Lies

“The great artist represents in all but funds—that is, by his own word—the confessional aristocracy of an erudite if autodidactic intelligence, one that is forever imparted from the vantage of an outsider.”

Art Intelligence Outsider Erudition Autodidacticism

Book:The Tedium Lies

Source: The Tedium Lies

“If I am seen to be strong it is because I shall be the first to fall. What courage you sample in my visage is only determinable in defiance for which my ambitions differ entirely. What right have I to speak for those whose suffering exceeds my past, whose fates were obliterated and will ape no more? Shall I expect to inherit this latent expansion for the sort we safely cannot conceive who do not yet suffer emptily? Late morning in a general practice waiting room, do they sleep only of exhaustion?”

Suffering Fate Solitude Existentialism Pessimism

Book:The Tedium Lies

Source: The Tedium Lies

“When I wake to consider the vaporous aether of our universe, everything feels as though contained within an impenetrably dark infinitely expanding bubble through which the empty space overtaken is sacrificially loaned unto a mockery of its antithesis, across waning dales where the dead retire, to be reclaimed by this cosmic tide, recycled, reincarnated into further being, a self-renewing system of cacophonous consignment inuring one maniacal God His baseless funereal watch, an elementary decree whose advantage succeeds into everlasting fire.”

God Suffering Universe Pessimism Nihilism Misotheism

Book:The Tedium Lies

Source: The Tedium Lies

“Only the inconvenience of being ushers suggestion without a solution, the binding of man’s effigy in letting pained blood, teasing angst at the burden of long exile between death.”

Death Suffering Blood Being Exile

Book:Tome of Ruin

Source: Tome of Ruin

“Much of the world’s scripture denigrates what would ultimately steer an honest life, one that sanctifies gnomic courage without sacrifice to the will of He who watches from afar like a colosseum of resentment, like a festering cradle, entertaining incredible patience for the whole charade, the agonising anthill, the starving labyrinth, the enclosure of His vain architectural prominence erected in order for more abject varieties of vying death, blind and maimed, to appease prolonged viewing till the whole extinction of man.”

God Religion Suffering Atheism Mankind Scripture Extinction Misotheism

Book:The Tedium Lies

Source: The Tedium Lies

“The products and processes of nature which functionally disseminate life are each founded by a pledge of pain to be endured. Every good, every sigh is a distraction allaying weakness and death. Nature is a malformed vermin, a parasite burrowing audaciously the aches of a comatose universe.”

Death Suffering Nature Existentialism Pessimism Nihilism

Book:The Tedium Lies

Source: The Tedium Lies

“The insatiable ambiguity of sentimental resonance with which we interpret music purely on the basis of emotions is evident through the impotency speech possesses in defining them.”

Language Music Speech Emotions Linguistics

Book:The Tedium Lies

Source: The Tedium Lies

“There is no superstition beheld anywhere in the universe’s haphazard amalgam, no doctrine or spiritual purpose to climb or better inquire, no valid reason unearthed that existence ought to precede Nothingness.”

Religion Universe Existence Atheism Existentialism Pessimism Nothingness Nothing Nihilism Superstition

Book:The Tedium Lies

Source: The Tedium Lies

“Mankind is a troupe in the fallibility of evolution and everything at his feet a prop, a false world made real enough to function without attainment or compensation of the genuine.”

Mankind Evolution Existentialism Pessimism Nihilism

Book:The Tedium Lies

Source: The Tedium Lies

“No veils, no aliases. No duty, no blame. These green woods are without thought, nameless are its denizens. They lead into a waking dream. A dream with nothing to dream. Nothing to conjure nor relate. No effort to pursue nor resist. To sleep among root and rock… Why harbour identity where there is none? What good governs here where you are nothing? Your recitals without audience, your words without paper. The clanless hermit conceives of his own visage twisted in the shady stream. He carves not hideous figures and faces from the kindling but burns it. He dances not with a head of sprig to impress the elves. A sage must emulate nature from which morality is neutered. Ethics are chaste fodder for undying pyres. That ongoing tumult beyond the forest’s edge shall be yours to lick up and knock over again and again if you so choose… Mankind invents and implies. The crowd accepts or denies. People are always begging pity or scorn from your kind.”

Dreams Mankind Morality Ethics Forest Crowd Elves

Book:The Tedium Lies

Source: The Tedium Lies

Jacob H. Kyle Books

The Tedium Lies

Tome of Ruin

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