To those who despair of everything reason cannot provide a faith, but only passion, and in this case it must be the same passion that lay at the root of the despair, namely humiliation and hatred. – Albert Camus
So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to try to eliminate those means by which man tries to cleanse himself of despair. – Antonin Artaud
Melancholy has ceased to be an individual phenomenon, an exception. It has become the class privilege of the wage earner, a mass state of mind that finds its cause wherever life is governed by production quotas. – Gunther Grass
For me, growing up, the downside of it was that as a kid you dont want to stand out. You dont want to have a famous father let alone get a job because of your famous father, you know? But Im a product of nepotism. Thats how I got my foot in the door, through my dad. – Jeff Bridges
