W.N.P. Barbellion Quotes:
Ocupation: Diarist
Life: September 7, 1889 - October 22, 1919
Birthday: September 7
Death: October 22
Sometimes I think I am going mad. I live for days in the mystery and tears of things so that the commonest object, the most familiar face- even my own- become ghostly, unreal, enigmatic. I get into an attitude of almost total scepticism, nescience, solipsism, in a world of dumb, sphinx-like things that cannot explain themselves. The discovery of how I am situated- a sentient being on a globe in space overshadows me. I wish I were just nothing.
source: W. N. P. Barbellion (1919). “The Journal of a Disappointed Man”
topic: Attitude, Thinking, Discovery, Solipsism, Familiar Faces, Enigmatic, Live For The Day
