"There is not coming to consciousness without pain. People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own soul.One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious."

— Carl Jung, Psychology and Alchemy

"And he who must be a creator in good and evil, verily, he must first be an annihilator and break values."

— Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

"The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy."

— Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus