Really Alive

(Pierre Van der Meer de Walcheren - found here)

“I am well aware that there are many so-called rational animals, who seem to live sixty or eighty years and are some day buried without ever once emerging from their nothingness. . . . Appearances were enough for them, all else had no existence.

. . . Happily, there are some real men, some who are really alive, and who have not received their souls in vain.

. . . I am more and more stupefied at seeing the majority of men living on so calmly, not troubling themselves in the least about anything whatever. They wear a fat, self-satisfied smile, never giving a thought to the yawning depths about us.”
~Pierre Van der Meer de Walcheren