Jonathan Eybeschutz quotes

All pleasures contain an element of sadness.
-- Jonathan Eybeschutz

#Sadness #Elements #Misery

What is "this drive"? It's the tendency to not simply accept things as they are but to want to think about them, to understand them. To not be content to simply feel sad but to ask what sadness means. To not just get a bus pass but to think about the economic reasons getting a bus pass makes sense. I call this tendency the intellectual.

Thoughts are no more than electrical surges in the brain. Sexual arousal is no more than a flow of chemicals to certain nerve endings. Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum. In short, the body is a machine, subject to the same laws of electricity and mechanics as an electron or clock.

I have as much rage as you have, I have as much pain as you do, I've lived as much hell as you have, and I've kept mine bubbling under for you.

I'm consumed by the chill of solitary.

I'm sad, but I'm laughing.

The absurd is essentially a divorce. It lies in neither of the elements compared; it is born of their confrontation.

Sometimes a piece of music in the score isn't effective. When a score is too well finished with too many elements, sometimes it's too much.

I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence.

We [writers] must know that we can never escape the common misery and that our only justification, if indeed there is a justification, is to speak up, insofar as we can, for those who cannot do so.

Those who have courage and faith shall never perish in misery