Favorites: José Saramago, Marcel Proust, Arthur Schopenhauer, Albert Camus, Fernando Pessoa, and Ludwig Wittgenstein.
quietism
"Strictly speaking, we do not make decisions, decisions make us. The proof can be found in the fact that, though life leads us to carry out the most diverse actions one after the other, we do not preclude each one with a period of reflection, evaluation and calculation, and only then declare ourselves able to decide if we will go out to lunch or buy a newspaper or look for the unknown woman." All the Names- Jose Saramago.
"Not the least of the torments which plague our existence is the constant pressure of time, which never lets us so much as draw breath but pursues us all like a taskmaster with a whip. It ceases to persecute only him it has delivered over to boredom." Parerga and Paralipomena- Arthur Schopenhauer
"At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face." The Myth of Sisyphus- Albert Camus