This department from The Goreletter collects quotable quotes of the damned.
"I don't believe in evil, I believe only in horror. In nature there is no evil, only an abundance of horror: the plagues and the blights and the ants and the maggots."
-- Isak Dinesen (died 1962)
Optimism
"Which came first: the intestine or the tapeworm?"
-- William S. Burroughs (died 1997)
You Know It In Your Gut
"Suffering makes you live time in detail, moment after moment. Which is to say that it exists for you: over the others, the ones who don't suffer, time flows, so that they don't live in time, in fact they never have."
-- Emile M. Cioran (died 1995)
Take Your Licking and Keep On Ticking
"To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature."
-- Ernst Fischer (died 1972)
Sleep on This
"I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars."
-- Abbie Hoffman (died 1989)