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As long as I was alive, I was something. That was just how it was. But somewhere along the way it all changed. Living…

— Haruki Murakami

And if anyone asks what became of me, you relate my life in all its wonder, and end it with a simple and modest…

— Suzanne Weyn

By the time ordinary life asserted itself once more, I would feel I had already lived for a while in some other lifetime, that…

— Margaret Mahy

I was stuck in the feeling that one did not--was not justified in being alive unless one was fulfilling other people's dreams, whether they…

— John Lennon

I was darkly convinced that at age 52 I would kill myself because my mother committed suicide at that age. I was fantasizing that…

— Spalding Gray

As I grew up I realized, though imperfectly, that I was different from other people, and that the way of life in my home…

— John George Haigh

“As I read, however, I applied much personally to my own feelings and condition. I found myself similar, yet at the same time strangely…

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

I felt at some point that I had nothing to lose, and [laughs] maybe I was wrong. I think, you know, there's always these…

— Billy Collins

I was cut off from the world. There was no one to confuse or torment me, and I was forced to become original.

— Joseph Haydn

Everything mattered and nothing did, and I was tired of trying to find out how both of those things were true. I was an…

— Maggie Stiefvater

I was suffering from a peculiar and persistent sense that I was being pursued, and also the conviction that under the political order of…

— Naguib Mahfouz

When I was very young I was sort of floored by the fact that my mother and my father and everyone I knew was…

— Lana Del Rey