„It suffices to imagine all our desires satisfied. After a while, we would be dissastisfied. We would want something else and we would be unhappy not knowing what to want.“ – Simone Weil
„If to enjoy even an enjoyable present we must have the assurance of a happy future, we are “crying for the moon.” We have no such assurance. The best predictions are still matters of probability rather than certainty, and to the best of our knowledge every one of us is going to suffer and die. If, then, we cannot live happily without an assured future, we are certainly not adapted to living in a finite world where, despite the best plans, accidents will happen, and where death comes at the end.“ – Alan Watts
Methoden der Psychohygiene 