This department from The Goreletter collects quotable quotes of the damned.
"Just imagine a number of men in chains, and all condemned to die, some of whom each day have their throats cut before the eyes of others. Those who remain see their own condition in that of their fellows and, observing one another with grief and without hope, await their turn. That is the image of the human condition." -- Blaise Pascal (died 1662)
Probably Why We Watch TV
"Whatever the nightmare, one takes a role in it, one is the protagonist, one is something. It is at night that the disinherited man triumphs. If we were to suppress bad dreams, there would be mass revolutions." -- E.M. Cioran (died 1995)
A Revolutionary Thought
"I rejoice in the presence of death because I think it's what makes life brilliant and beautiful. And without it, the world would be ridiculous. I’m interested in it from every point of view. My interest in it has not dimmed with its approach."
-- Orson Welles (died 1985)
Deadizen Kane
"Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant." -- Edgar Allan Poe, "Doings of Gotham - Letter VI"
Poe, Irrelevant
"Capital punishment. The criminal is killed because the crime has spent all the capacity for living a man has. He has experienced everything if he has killed. He can die. Murder drains a man."
-- Albert Camus (died 1960)
"Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant." -- Edgar Allan Poe, "Doings of Gotham - Letter VI"