Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959) dir. Alain Resnais

Beauty always promises and never gives; it creates hunger, but it has no nourishment for the part of the soul trying here below to fill itself; it only nourishes the part of the soul that gazes.

Late Philosophical Writings, Simone Weil tr. Lawrence E. Schmidt

Kate Bush (1980-07) from Record Mirror

Buna dimineata

Fallen Angels (1995) - French Poster

The Young and the Damned (1950) dir. Luis Buñuel

One must accept everything, all things, without any reservation, both inside and outside oneself, in the whole universe, with the same degree of love; but evil must be accepted as evil and good as good. Two perpendicular planes. Space. The breadth, and length, and depth, and height, and the knowledge of Charity which surpasses all knowledge.

Simone Weil, The Notebooks of Simone Weil, 305

Floris Neusüss, Water dissolution, 1977

In The Mood For Love (2000), dir. Wong Kar Wai

Why are there beings at all instead of nothing? That is the question. Presumably it is not arbitrary question, "Why are there beings at all instead of nothing"- this is obviously the first of all questions. Of course it is not the first question in the chronological sense [...] And yet, we are each touched once, maybe even every now and then, by the concealed power of this question, without properly grasping what is happening to us. In great despair, for example, when all weight tends to dwindle away from things and the sense of things grows dark, the question looms.

Martin Heidegger, Being and Time