“Maybe it's ALWAYS the end of the world. Maybe you're alive for a while, and then you realize you're going to die, and that's such an insane thing to comprehend, you look around for answers and the only answer is that the world must die with you.” WorldLooksEndsDiesRealizingAnswersAliveInsaneApocalypseEnd Of The World Author:Jess Walter
“certain very old people reach an age where every funeral becomes some sort of insane confirmation of strength, rather than of vulnerability, as it is when we are in our thirties or forties and our friends die.” PeopleAgeCertainDiesOld AgeInsaneVulnerabilityFortyFuneralOld PeopleConfirmation Book:Shylock's Daughter: A Novel of Love in Venice Source: Shylock's Daughter: A Novel of Love in Venice
“Why is it that nobody cries out, nobody spits in their faces, nobody jumps at their throats? We doff our caps to the S.S. men returning from the little wood; if our name is called out we obediently go with them to die, and we do nothing. We starve, we are drenched by rain, we are torn from our families. What is this mystery? This strange power of one man over another? This insane passivity that cannot be overcome? Our only strength is our great number; the gas chambers cannot accommodate all of us.” IfsMenLittlesFacesDiesNamesNumbersMysteryCryStrangeRainOvercomingWoodsInsaneOur FamilyGasOne ManThroatTornChamberCapsSpitAccommodatePassivityPower Of OneGas Chambers Author:Tadeusz Borowski
“When one of us dies of cancer, loses her mind, or commits suicide, we must not blame her for her inability to survive an ongoing political mechanism bent on the destruction of that human being. Sanity remains defined simply by the ability to cope with insane conditions.” MindHumansPoliticalDiesLosesHuman BeingsAbilityConditionsDestructionBlameRemainsSuicideCancerIllnessCommitMental IllnessInsaneOppressionDefinedSanityMechanismBentInabilityOngoing Book:Massacre of the Dreamers: Essays on Xicanisma Source: Massacre of the Dreamers: Essays on Xicanisma