Boredom.

"Is there anything so insulting to your life as boredom? Time, like matter, possess a duality. Like matter, at once a particle and a wave, time is simultaneously a point and a line.

Boredom is a state which confuses the two. It's not like living through time as a moving point, when we remain unconcerned with the past and the future. It's not like time has a line, where you plan the future with the experiences of the past. Boredom is a point wondering where it's line is. Living in a standstill while the past closes in on you and the future looms over you, threatening you with its presence but holding back, filling you with both exasperation and desire.

On both sides of the spectrum, that of time as a line and time as a point, is where passion rules. At one end, the satisfying passion of tackling your immediate problems or sating your impulsive cravings. At the other end, craving the future and the excitement it brings. It could also be a baleful passion, the despair and hopefulessness of losing something you can't fathom living without, or being haunted by the decisions you've made. Boredom is in the middle of the spectrum of time at the opposite of passion, where your senses are deadened, and time can't be distinguished.

Is it any wonder that boredom is a bitter beast? At best, it's a sleepy reminder that life, at times, must stop and take a breath. At worst, it's an insult to all that makes your life coherent and bearable."

                                                                          ~ Colin Saraka

     

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

-Ernest Hemingway

Nietzsche

Soo I was reading over old journals today, and stumbled upon some quotes that I jotted down while reading 'Thus Spoke Zarathustra'. I love finding old quotes, and thinking about why they meant so much to me at the time of reading the novel.. So I thought I'd share!

"Happiness should justify existence itself."

"..man is a polluted river... One must be a sea, to recieve a polluted river and not be defiled."

"I have at all times written my writings with my whole heart and soul: I do not know what purely intellectual problems are."

"As soon as you feel yourself against me you have ceased to understand my position... You have to be the victim of the same passion!"

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"One must want to experience the great problems with one's body and one's soul." (beside this I wrote - "understand the desire to question")

Then I wrote - "A True Philosopher - He can feel his thoughts. He can fall in love with an idea. An idea can make him ill."

"I love him who lives for knowledge and who wants knowledge that one day the Superman may live. And thus he wills his own downfall."

"I love him who is ashamed when the dice falls in his favour and who then asks: Am I then a cheat? - for he wants to perish."

"I tell you: one must have chaos in one, to give birth to a dancing star. I tell you: you still have chaos in you."

"You must discover ten truths a day: otherwise you will seek truth in the night too, with your soul still hungry."

My love!

Beautiful Montreal at night   :)