These Cars Can't Cure Your Ever-Creeping Sense of Ennui

It’s spring, and the world is once again energetically and pointless busting forth in all directions, only to prepare to die in a few months. It’s enough to make the chronically detached revolt in horror at the sunshine and presence of humming life.

So to cheer myself down, I started looking for cars that speak to me, that say “your boredom with existence is valid, but also challenged by the loveliness of cars.” These slides have no meaning and are very random — so much like life. I’ve also included some nuggets of wisdom to keep you grounded to your numb existence, lest these images spark too much pleasure.

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Porsche 911

The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits. ― Albert Camus

Porsche 356

Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom. ― Arthur Schopenhauer

Karmann Ghia

I have a soul of lead. So stakes me to the ground I cannot move. — William Shakespeare

Acura NSX

Try again. Fail again. Fail better. ― Samuel Beckett

Dodge Viper

Life has no meaning a priori… It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the meaning that you choose. ― Jean-Paul Sartre

Honda Accord Aerodeck 2.0Si

A weird time in which we are alive. We can travel anywhere we want, even to other planets. And for what? To sit day after day, declining in morale and hope. ― Philip K. Dick

Chevrolet Corvette

If we believe in nothing, if nothing has any meaning and if we can affirm no values whatsoever, then everything is possible and nothing has any importance. ― Albert Camus

Mercedes-AMG GLC 63 S

Brief is man’s life and small the nook of the earth where he lives; brief, too, is the longest posthumous fame, buoyed only by a succession of poor human beings who will very soon die and who know little of themselves, much less of someone who died long ago. ― Marcus Aurelius

Citroën CX

He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch. ― Jean-Luc Godard

Saab 9-3 Aero Coupe

They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it’s night once more. ― Samuel Beckett

Ferrari 458 Speciale

All that is transitory is but a metaphor. ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Volvo 480

Existence is illusory and it is eternal. ― Albert Camus

Toyota Supra

Know yourselves - be infertile and let the earth be silent after ye. ― Peter Wessel Zapffe

2022 C-Class All-Terrain

In the face of the obscene, explicit malice of the jungle, which lacks only dinosaurs as punctuation, I feel like a half-finished, poorly expressed sentence in a cheap novel. ― Werner Herzog

Nissan Pao

Nothingness haunts Being. ― Jean-Paul Sartre

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