“To such men the desperate and horrible thought has come that
perhaps the whole of human life is but a bad joke, a violent and
ill-fated abortion of the primal mother, a savage and dismal
catastrophy of nature.
To them too, however, the other thought has come that man is
perhaps not merely a half rational animal, but a child of the
gods and destined for immortality.”
“Steppenwolf”, Herman Hesse.
Islander