“I sometimes think the entire human species is just a fucked-up tapestry woven out of little particles of prolonged sadness, living next to one another in sustained dissonance, reacting to each other and to the bitter truths of the Universe, replicating themselves and their sorrow on and on and on, with no end in sight save for the virus that finally wipes us and our grotesque dysfunction from the surface of the planet once and for all.” HumanityUniverseSadnessVirusTapestryDissonance Book:Elsewhere and Otherwise: Essays Source: Elsewhere and Otherwise: Essays
“Depression is what naturally occurs when the conditions of reality do not match our misguided expectations, when the fruition of what we think ought to characterize existence fails to manifest. It’s the ensuing dissonance we feel when what we believe should be falls short of what is.” LifeRealityExistenceDepressionExpectationsDissonance Book:Elsewhere and Otherwise: Essays Source: Elsewhere and Otherwise: Essays