Mina Erik

“Çağımıza ayak uydurmalıyız palavrasına hiç mi hiç inanmıyorum. Eğer yaşadığım çağın en yüce ideali köşeyi dönmekse; eğer yaşadığım çağ toplumsal adaletsizlik üzerine kuruluysa; eğer yaşadığım çağ inandığım her şeyi yadsıyorsa; eğer yaşadığım çağa bayağılık ve çirkinlik egemense, ben böyle bir çağa neden ayak uydurmak zorunda kalayım?”
― Mîna Urgan, Bir Dinozorun Anıları

“The thing about a spiral is, if you follow it inward, it never actually ends. It just keeps tightening, infinitely.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“Loneliness isn’t the physical absence of other people, he said—it’s the sense that you’re not sharing anything that matters with anyone else. If you have lots of people around you—perhaps even a husband or wife, or a family, or a busy workplace—but you don’t share anything that matters with them, then you’ll still be lonely.”
― Johann Hari, Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression – and the Unexpected Solutions

“It is here that we encounter the
central theme of existentialism:
to live is to suffer, to survive is to
find meaning in the suffering. If
there is a purpose in life at all,
there must be a purpose in suffering and in dying. But no man can tell another what this purpose is. Each must find out for himself,
and must accept the responsibility
that his answer prescribes.”
― Gordon W. Allport