
“My heart is empty & my life has no value anymore. Each moment a thousand tears.”
Source: Peony in Love
Short fiction, Schwartz Between the Galaxies (1974)
“My heart is empty & my life has no value anymore. Each moment a thousand tears.”
Source: Peony in Love
1970s, BOBBY FISCHER SPEAKS OUT! (1977)
“Caissa, the goddess of chess, had punished me for my conservative play, for betraying my nature.”
Part III, Chapter 15, Crisis Point, p. 188
2000s, How Life Imitates Chess (2007)
Quoted in "Speaking of Faith: The Morality of Nature" by Krista Tippett in American Public Media (7 April 2005) http://speakingoffaith.publicradio.org/programs/moralityofnature/kristasjournal.shtml
Context: I profess my Faith. For me, the existence of all this complexity and awareness and intent and beauty, and my ability to apprehend it, serves as the ultimate meaning and the ultimate value. The continuation of life reaches around, grabs its own tail, and forms a sacred circle that requires no further justification, no Creator, no super-ordinate meaning of meaning, no purpose other than that the continuation continue until the sun collapses or the final meteor collides. I confess a credo of continuation. And in so doing, I confess as well a credo of human continuation.
Deathbed statement (November 1858), in response to a church minister who asked if he regretted wasting his life on fruitless projects; as quoted in Harold Hill : A People's History http://www.haroldhill.org/section_two/section_two_page_one.htm (2004).
Desire http://lifeandlegends.com/suman-pokhrel-translated-dr-abhi-subedi/
From Poetry
Source: The Book of My Life (1930), Ch. 13
“I think my life is of great importance, but I also think it is meaningless.”
Attributed to Camus on social media, this sentence was taken from the Wikipedia article on Camus: "In Le Mythe, dualism becomes a paradox: we value our own lives in spite of our mortality and in spite of the universe's silence. While we can live with a dualism (I can accept periods of unhappiness, because I know I will also experience happiness to come), we cannot live with the paradox (I think my life is of great importance, but I also think it is meaningless)." Retrieved 16 July 2015, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Camus#Ideas_on_the_absurd
Misattributed
At his 100th Anniversary lecture delivered in 1943 on Ranade, Gandhi & Jinnah by Dr. Ambedkar