Top 31 Wessel Zapffe Quotes
#1. The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.
Oriana Fallaci
#2. Things had gone badly at Hell House, although not quite as horribly as the '31 investigation. At least this time there were survivors, if you wanted to call being reduced to catatonia and raving lunacy 'surviving'.
Nancy A. Collins
#3. Man is the ultimate tragic being, because he has learned enough about the Earth to realise the Earth would be better off without the presence of humankind.
Peter Wessel Zapffe
#4. A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung out into the cosmic brutality without hesitation.
Peter Wessel Zapffe
#6. Ever since I was a kid, I've always thought it very important to be happy inside. There's a lot of bad things happening in the world, but it's important to try to stay happy and appreciate what you've got, and don't look externally for the happiness.
Ana Ivanovic
#9. As long as humankind recklessly proceeds in the fateful delusion of being biologically fated for triumph, nothing essential will change.
Peter Wessel Zapffe
#10. I think I was born 'in to deep,' and bad things happen every day. Sometimes I have to stab hellions. Sometimes I have to frame friends for murder, and stab evil math teachers, and watch my best friend die. Again. We deal with it, then we move on.
Rachel Vincent
#11. The seed of a metaphysical or religious defeat is in us all. For the honest questioner, however, who doesn't seek refuge in some faith or fantasy, there will never be an answer.
Peter Wessel Zapffe
#13. We come from an inconceivable nothingness. We stay a while in something which seems equally inconceivable, only to vanish again into the inconceivable nothingness.
Peter Wessel Zapffe
#14. He is the universe's helpless captive, kept to fall into nameless possibilities.
Peter Wessel Zapffe
#15. No future triumph or metamorphosis can justify the pitiful blighting of a human being against his will.
Peter Wessel Zapffe
#16. When a human being takes his life in depression, this is a natural death of spiritual causes. The modern barbarity of 'saving' the suicidal is based on a hair-raising misapprehension of the nature of existence.
Peter Wessel Zapffe
#18. The dread of being stares us in the eye, and in a deadly gush we perceive how the minds are dangling in threads of their own spinning, and that a hell is lurking underneath.
Peter Wessel Zapffe
#19. A coin is turned around before it is handed to the beggar, yet a child is unflinchingly tossed into cosmic bruteness.
Peter Wessel Zapffe
#20. To bear children into this world is like carrying wood to a burning house.
Peter Wessel Zapffe
#21. Western countries are thoroughly accustomed to being the centre of global attention, which they have come to regard as their natural birthright. Not so China. It was thwarted in its attempt to hold the 2000 Olympics, which, as a result of American-led pressure, was awarded to Sydney.
Martin Jacques
#22. He is mighty in the near world, but curses his might as purchased with his harmony of soul, his innocence, his inner peace in life's embrace.
Peter Wessel Zapffe
#23. I grew up skateboarding; it was fun. I didn't think about money, I didn't know how much professional skateboarders made. I just knew that if I became a professional skateboarder, I would achieve a lot and get to travel and do these great things.
Jason Lee
#24. The immediate facts are what we must relate to. Darkness and light, beginning and end.
Peter Wessel Zapffe
#26. Man beholds the earth, and it is breathing like a great lung; whenever it exhales, delightful life swarms from all its pores and reaches out toward the sun, but when it inhales, a moan of rupture passes through the multitude, and corpses whip the ground like bouts of hail.
Peter Wessel Zapffe
#27. Man is a tragic animal. Not because of his smallness, but because he is too well endowed. Man has longings and spiritual demands that reality cannot fulfill. We have expectations of a just and moral world. Man requires meaning in a meaningless world.
Peter Wessel Zapffe
#28. You're such a fugitive, but you don't know what you're running from.
Arctic Monkeys
#29. The more a human being in his worldview approaches the goal, the hegemony of love in a moral universe, the more has he become slipshod in the light of intellectual honesty.
Peter Wessel Zapffe
#30. If one regards life and death as natural processes, the metaphysical dread vanishes, and one obtains peace of mind.
Peter Wessel Zapffe
#31. One in four kids have either pre-diabetes or diabetes - what I like to call diabesity. How did this happen?
Mark Hyman
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