" Thou shalt not be afraid of the terror by night, Nor of the arrow that flieth by day; "
"Of the pestilence that walketh in darkness, Nor of the destruction that wasteth at noonday"
"A thousand may fall at Thy side, And ten thousand at Thy right hand; It shall not come nigh thee."
"Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold, And see the recompense of the wicked."
"For thou hast made the LORD who is my refuge, Even the Most High, thy habitation."
"There shall no evil befall thee, Neither shall any plague come nigh thy tent."
"For He will give His angels charge over thee, To keep thee in all thy ways."



"Battle not with monsters lest ye become a monster, for if you gaze long to the Abyss, the Abyss gazes back into you."

Friedrich Nietzsche - Beyond Good and Evil.



“In a theater, it happened that a fire started offstage. The clown came out to tell the audience. They thought it was a performance and applauded. He told them again, and they became still more hilarious. This is the way, I suppose, that the world will be destroyed - amid the universal hilarity of wits and wags who think it is all a joke.”

Søren Kierkegaard - Either/Or: A Fragment of Life.



"For the fate of men and beasts is identical: as the one dies, so does the other. They all have the same life-breath, and man has no advantage over the beast in this regard. For everything is vanity."

Ecclesiastes 3:19 - St. Joseph New Catholic Bible.



“People talk of 'social outcasts'. The words apparently denote the miserable losers of the world, the vicious ones, but I feel as though I have been a 'social outcast' from the moment I was born. If ever I meet someone society has designated as an outcast, I invariably feel affection for him, an emotion which carries me away in melting tenderness.”

Osamu Dazai - No Longer Human.



"Which is better: cheap happiness or sublime suffering? Well, come on, which is better?"

Fyodor Dostoevsky - Notes from the Underground.