Bores Quote by Christopher Hitchens

I have been taunting the Reaper into taking a free scythe in my direction and have now succumbed to something so predictable and banal…

— Christopher Hitchens

I was so obsessed and consumed with my grievances that I could not get away from myself and think things out in the light.…

— Anzia Yezierska

Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity; and my eyes burned with anguish and anger.

— James Joyce

I just think that for a lot of people - not to take the focus off of myself - that feeling of imminent dread,…

— Matthew Shultz

“What is more irritating than to see one’s subject, on whom one has lavished so much time and trouble, slipping out of one’s grasp…

— Virginia Woolf

Seven times have I despised my soul: The sixth time when she despised the ugliness of a face, and knew not that it was…

— Anonymous

How rare to stare into the face of death... Something I never intend to do again.

— Ichabod

O! I burn with impatience for the moment of the dissolution of intolerance; it has injured me.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

When you use your own mouth to condemn yourself, it becomes so difficult to overcome.

— Terry Mark

Many times, I have been shocked and frightened by human beings. I have experienced delight and revulsion. I have sometimes wanted to forget what…

— Svetlana Alexievich

I silently laugh at my own cenotaph, And out of the caverns of rain, Like a child from the womb, like a ghost from…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

I have a very highly developed sense of denial.

— Gwyneth Paltrow