All ordinary minds are trapped within the world, and within it, themselves.
All ordinary minds are trapped within the world, and within it, themselves.
― Atrona Grizel
Imagining someone
who will not collapse my complexity into compressed and simplified roles like
“friend,” “lover,” “genius,” or “ghost”… such a being exists only in my dream
world.
― Atrona Grizel
A simple proof
that people are a kind of robot: if the era and civilization they live in
worshipped “ugliness,” they too would come to worship it. Or if this era and
civilization encouraged “laziness,” they would begin to curse work
automatically. Because they are not alive beings, but unconscious extensions of
history.
― Atrona Grizel
Every kind of
passion is being transformed into a form of industry. Every passion is
monetized or at least expected to be. This can be observed in schools, shows,
articles, conferences, films, advertisements, and even within the primitive
instincts of humans: the relentless conversion of passion into profession, the
monetization of personal emotions and thoughts. This message is constantly
propagated, taught, and encouraged by all of these forces. More than that, it
is what people dream of—because they all embody identities scripted by singular
capitalist narratives. And this constitutes the greatest insult to one’s inner
world.
―
Atrona Grizel
The greatest
torment is not the torment itself, but when ending that torment becomes
impossible. Worry grows only when a person no longer has the option to bring
their own existence to a close. Imagine a prison whose inmates encounter nothing
but blank walls—where ceasing to exist is unthinkable. Their suicides are not
guaranteed. In other words, it isn’t even an available option. That is the
cruelest form of treatment for a human.
― Atrona Grizel
When I express
what I do, think, or feel in my solitude, I feel like I betray something
sacred. I feel like I betray my feelings by exposing them, by putting them into
words. Because solitude is being alone, after all; it’s not suitable for any
kind of external audience, or it turns into a commercial corruption.
―
Atrona Grizel
I, the one who is
most myself, can only meet with myself at most for a few hours in the late
night. All the rest of the time in the day passes under the assault of others
and the siege of externality.
― Atrona Grizel
Language has been
weaponized in modern societies not just to communicate but to control thought.
Terms like “success,” “confidence,” “normal,” “mental health,” or
“self-improvement” are presented as universally desirable, but these words are
saturated with invisible assumptions. When people use these terms, they are not
merely communicating ideas but also adhering to a predefined set of beliefs and
norms. For example, to say one is “successful” is not simply to express
achievement but to buy into the societal belief that success is tied to
specific metrics like wealth or social status. To use such language is already
to submit to the ideology behind it.
― Atrona Grizel
In existence,
there are two kinds of loneliness: one is the loneliness of the person, and the
other is the loneliness of the Earth. The former is what society pretends to
cure, and the latter is what society refuses to acknowledge.
― Atrona Grizel
It is not the
majority but always the minority who possess the ability to “see,” perhaps only
one person out of a thousand.
―
Atrona Grizel
Only a certain
minority should live. The majority isn’t really living anyway, nor is it
capable of such a thing.
―
Atrona Grizel
One should seek
not for their life to have a meaning, but to have a beauty—and beauty is independent
of meaning.
―
Atrona Grizel
Hatred is the
inoculation of impulsiveness. Hatred destroys systems. Hatred creates systems.
Hatred is the cog and wheel of history. It is no coincidence that radical
politicians are known for being addicted to this formula and for injecting it
into the masses—for this is the secret of radical politics.
―
Atrona Grizel
I am like an
inverse graph to humans: if they are going up, I am going down; if they are
going down, I am going up. Are they at the top? Then I am at the bottom. Are
they at the bottom? Then I am at the top.
―
Atrona Grizel
An intrinsic and
artistic soul seeks and sees beauty and elegance, not meaning and purpose,
which are inadequate human-made tools for attempting to “justify” the
unjustifiable turmoil and chaos. Aesthetics always prevails over philosophy,
unless philosophy itself is a form of aesthetic. Only when philosophy becomes
an art—rendered in style, rhythm, and grace—does it ascend to the aesthetic,
and even then it is celebrated for its nobility, not for its “coherence” or
“correctness.” This is aesthetic existentialism: where there is no beauty, one
must create one’s own—and in doing so, be unconcerned with “meaning,”
“consistency,” or “goodness.” Only pure beauty: a clear water that breaks every
norm and dogma, cleansing the filthy mud—and nothing else.
―
Atrona Grizel
One sign of the
mediocrity and ordinariness of the masses is that they can easily be perceived
as a single person. This inevitably occurs in every instance when people gather
around a certain opinion with the aim of becoming “strong together.”
―
Atrona Grizel
There is so much
noise precisely because there is nothing to say. What wouldn’t I give for a sip
of silence…
―
Atrona Grizel
I’m walking down
the street. Everyone looks, perhaps, but no one sees me. Their minds are filled
only with their own lives. I reach out to people online, yet all they ever do
is press the “like” button and move on to the next comment. That means the
scene is the same both offline and online. I have always found homelessness
strange—how can a person lie in the middle of the street, hungry and cold, as
if nonexistent? I’m not talking about people’s indifference, or about expecting
a “helping hand” that never comes. I’m not even pointing out the “evil,”
because people are too “asleep” to be evil. I’m pointing to the invisibility of
the individual, to the two-faced system that makes a human being small and
worthless. It’s just that the existing order forces people to think only of
themselves and their social circle. Didn’t this same world once claim to be
full of “happiness” and “togetherness”? What happened to these old slogans?
Someone who knows the streets up close has every right to speak about humans,
even to judge it—because only they have witnessed life so directly, so
mercilessly. And yes, the only people worth talking to are those who are
homeless—whether mentally, in a state of metaphysical exile, or physically,
crawling through the filth. Because I know this: anyone who hasn’t just walked
through the dirt, but lived in it, is the only one who has faced reality.
Everyone else has been cradled in comfort, raised inside a manufactured
utopia—and by swallowing that illusion, they have begun to see it as reality
itself. And that is why they are hostile toward those who have suffered—because
they don’t want their own shallowness thrown in their faces. And since they’re
everywhere, an illusion of a “society” appears—but no, it’s a herd.
―
Atrona Grizel
Even if the
system is obsessed with adulthood, it does not raise “adults”; it rewards
permanent adolescence. The intellect is numbed by internet memes. The imagination
is outsourced to social media trends. Political discourse is reduced to
hashtags and merchandise. Even rage is prepackaged: click, post, feel
righteous, repeat. Depth is squeezed into algorithms: thumbs up, fire emoji,
retweet, repeat. They don’t think—they execute. They don’t imagine—they
replicate. The system rewards obedience to the spectacle, not individuation.
For individuation—true psychological sovereignty—is undesirable. It cannot be
monetized, trended, polled, or “discussed” and debated in internet forums. The
result is that they depend on a handful of emojis in order to be pacified. It
is ironic that those who are obsessed with being “mature” are precisely these
babies disguised in adult bodies.
―
Atrona Grizel
People love
walking around with labels attached to them by others or labels they give
themselves. They are prisoners of roles they did not choose, punished by
systems they did not design, and shaped by forces they cannot name.
― Atrona Grizel
I am everything,
because I am nothing. I am everywhere, because I am nowhere.
― Atrona Grizel
Every screen
seen, every voice heard, every conversation encountered bloats with noise—yet
remains ultimately void. When the world speaks endlessly and says nothing,
depth resides not in the words but in the silence between them. Existence
begins in this negative space, in the gaps where reality leaks through
illusion.
― Atrona Grizel
This is a game of
invisibility and visibility: one is both hyper-visible and entirely unseen at
the same time.
― Atrona Grizel
Any judgment born
of collective agreement is, by nature, arbitrary, no matter how widely it is
accepted.
―
Atrona Grizel
If a “deviant”
desire becomes discussable, it becomes negotiable. And if it becomes
negotiable, it becomes acceptable. This is why “dogmas” and “taboos” are
invented: defensive walls erected because the desire toward the “forbidden”
itself is already halfway through normalization.
― Atrona Grizel