Byung-Chul Han
- The Burnout Society
In reality, it is not the excess of responsibility and initiative that makes one sick, but the imperative to achieve: the new commandment of late-modern labor society. The complaint of the depressive individual, "Nothing is possible," can only occur in a society that thinks, "Nothing is impossible."
David Foster Wallace
- Perfectionism
You know the whole thing about perfectionism. The perfectionism is very dangerous because of course if your fidelity to perfectionism is too high, you never do anything because doing anything results in - it's actually kind of tragic because you sacrifice how gorgeous and perfect it is in your head for what it really is. And there were a couple of years where I really struggled with that.
Bret Easton Ellis
- American Psycho
Nothing was affirmative, the term "generosity of spirit" applied to nothing, was a cliché, was some kind of bad joke. Sex is mathematics. Individuality no longer an issue. What does intelligence signify? Define reason. Desire-meaningless. Intellect is not a cure. Justice is dead. Fear, recrimination, innocence, sympathy, guilt, waste, failure, grief, were things, emotions, that no one really felt anymore. Reflection is useless, the world is senseless. Evil is its only permanence.
