Those who are too vast for the world never fit into its narrowness.
Those who are too vast for the world never fit into its narrowness.
―
Atrona Grizel
If someone sees
silence as truer than speech or solitude as richer than community, that
threatens the social machinery; a silent person is not “useful,” a solitary
person is not “networking,” a melancholic person is not “optimistic” about the
system’s promises. But instead of asking “what is this silence telling?” “what
lies beneath this solitude?” or “what insight does this melancholy reveal about
the existence?” society flips the script: it is not the world that is sick but
the person. Call it “just having depression,” and suddenly the entire worldview
of a person becomes “sickness.” Once it is framed this way, it is no longer a
revelation about the world but only a “malfunction” inside someone’s brain.
Anything that does not shine, smile, or flatter is cast into the shadow of
“mental illness” and thus, reduced to a mere symptom instead of a philosophy.
And in doing so, society neutralizes the dissent by medicalizing them.
―
Atrona Grizel
For people with
numerous relationships, others are a kind of background decoration—something
they can change with just a few keystrokes, replace with their already existing
relationships, and prefer as if it were a capitalist product because of the
features it offers—whereas for the solitary person, a single human being is an
architect of reality.
―
Atrona Grizel
For some, the
only life that can be lived is the dream of a different life.
―
Atrona Grizel
I am not serious.
I have seen too much irony to be serious. I am only resolute in my view; that’s
all.
―
Atrona Grizel
People perceive
being on autopilot as “personality.”
―
Atrona Grizel
When people whom
someone hated take their own lives—for example, when parents who never showed
love to their child find the child’s body—their crying resembles the sorrow of
a robot; it’s not so much an emotion as it is an automatic reflex.
―
Atrona Grizel
People mistake
cultivating culture with acquiring depth and knowledge.
―
Atrona Grizel
Happiness occurs
only when the happiness is forgotten.
―
Atrona Grizel
I have never
tasted what it feels like to lose. Because I have never had anything to lose.
―
Atrona Grizel
In every
environment I enter, I feel as if I am watching people and my own body from
space.
―
Atrona Grizel
There is no such
thing as “awakening”; only transformation and transcendence.
―
Atrona Grizel
Worry “passes”
only when I dive into it until I am worn out from exhaustion.
―
Atrona Grizel
Instead of saying
“I’m afraid of not being able to live,” they say “I came to the world only
once, so I deserve to live.”
―
Atrona Grizel
When a person
reaches the point of sincerely ignoring every individual in their country who
is seen as a hero, servant, or martyr, that is when they are within the freedom
of a stateless person.
―
Atrona Grizel
It takes me
months to be able to write a single sentence. That’s why I don’t write.
―
Atrona Grizel
For me, ending my
life is far easier than begging. Because the real suicide is not suicide itself
but begging in any way. I detest helplessness more than nonexistence. I would
rather die and be declared a martyr than survive and be declared a victim.
―
Atrona Grizel
Those tainted by
too much civilization cleanse themselves in nature.
―
Atrona Grizel
To realize dreams
means to betray them.
―
Atrona Grizel
In the late hours
of the night, the self drifts into another dimension. Having watched the day
unfold from behind the scenes, the soul finally proclaims its existence. It
takes the stage. It begins, at last, to breathe freely—whether the breath be
sweet or bitter.
―
Atrona Grizel
If no human
society had ever invented competition, rankings, or the idea of “success,”
people would not naturally crave them. The desire to “win” and the feeling of
shame over being a “loser” are more cultural than instinctive.
― Atrona
Grizel
One must not see,
but hear.
―
Atrona Grizel
Everyone thinks
the same and says the same thing. That means nothing is being thought and
nothing is being said.
―
Atrona Grizel
Those raised with
American culture are doomed to see everything in terms of profit and loss,
labeling events and situations as either “winning” or “losing,” and people as
either “winner” or “loser.”
―
Atrona Grizel
No feeling ever
disappears; it only transforms.
―
Atrona Grizel
The universe
should be the person, not the person the universe.
―
Atrona Grizel
I would abandon
Earth rather than myself.
―
Atrona Grizel
The only thing
someone who shares deep and rare writings on mainstream internet platforms can
gain is nothing more than a few heart emojis, since it is inevitable that these
writings are seen merely as “content” for “consumption.”
―
Atrona Grizel
Life is
everywhere, yet experience in its true sense is absent. There are billions of
bodies, yet not even a single soul.
―
Atrona Grizel
Those who are
afraid of being “ridiculous” are mostly unaware of how laughable everyone is,
even merely by their existence. Seriousness has emerged in order to cover up
this comedy. Yet whoever is to laugh, laughs at everything.
―
Atrona Grizel
To have suffered
deeply makes pain feel usual. When someone in pain is seen, and the reaction is
to cry or to “pity” them, that is not understanding—it is the absence of it.
For such reactions arise not from closeness to that pain, but from a
fundamental foreignness to it. One who has already shed all those tears, and
thus knows all their meanings, shows no reaction at all—for they have simply
accepted it as reality.
―
Atrona Grizel
For something to
cease to exist, it would have to be entirely outside of everything. Yet even
the very act of being entails entrapment within existence. In other words,
there is always a context. Therefore, nothing in the universe truly
disappears—because it cannot. Even when a person dies, their atoms persist.
Their body returns to the soil. The energy released from them disperses into
the air. And then, the animals, plants, and fruits that have grown from that
soil are consumed, and the air—now mixed with that person’s energy—is breathed
in. Thus, the person who has “died” also enters the bodies of these living
beings. Afterward, the cycle repeats. There is only infinite change and
transformation—but the “death” of anything or anyone, in the most biological
sense, is not possible. Once born, a thing endures its existence forever.
― Atrona Grizel
Whether lying in
bed, sitting, eating, on the toilet, pushing a stroller, walking the dog,
shopping, walking, “listening” to others, talking, driving, crossing the
street, waiting in line, brushing their teeth, watching a movie, attending a
meeting, having a conversation, engaging in sexual intercourse, arguing,
showering, at a funeral, in a lecture, or during a family meal—even in moments
of “supposed” intimacy or solitude—they always have their phones in their hands.
The device is there. Always there. Every street I step into is filled with
mechanical “opium” addicts walking in the shape of an “inverted L.”
― Atrona Grizel
Reality is in
secrecy, not in openness. Because anything can be reflected outwardly, it is
open to manipulation. Whether that reflection is genuine or not can only be
revealed when a deep relationship is developed with that person. The sacred
hides. A genuine soul does not scream; it whispers. True connection, the kind
that shakes the bones, requires mystery and unknowing.
―
Atrona Grizel
I am not fast;
you are slow.
―
Atrona Grizel
Everything that
is real is abstract.
―
Atrona Grizel
To fight is to be
in need.
―
Atrona Grizel
The more I
understand myself, the less I can explain it to others.
―
Atrona Grizel
Someone having a
“mirror fetish”—taking “selfies” in front of mirrors—is enough to know what
kind of person they are.
―
Atrona Grizel