babybluemondays

“But people are rather stupid and waste their lives. Have you not seen that? Have you not looked down from the horse at a city and thought how much it resembles an ant heap, full of blind creatures who think their mundane little world is real? You see the lighted windows and what you want to think is that there may be many interesting stories behind them, but what you know is that there really are just dull, dull souls, mere consumers of food, who think their instincts are emotions and their tiny lives of more account than a whisper of sand.”

terry pratchett - 'Soul Music'

whatever cref and ganga say about terry pratchett being a load of trashy novels, i think he has some of the best insights into the human condition.