Losing myself Quote by Federico Castigliano

“Well, I had often pondered all this, not without an intense longing sometimes to turn to and do something real for once, to be…

— Hermann Hesse

“When I thought of myself, of the feelings I had, of the things I thought I understood so well, I imagined myself somehow abstractly,…

— Gaito Gazdanov

“For some days I haunted the spot where these scenes had taken place, sometimes wishing to see you, sometimes resolved to quit the world…

— Mary Shelley

“I luxuriate more in a whole day alone; a day of easy natural poses; slipping tranquilly off into the deep water of my own…

— Virginia Woolf

“I sometimes have moments of such despair, such despair … Because in those moments I start to think that I will never be capable…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“So expressive it was, of a hopeless and lost creature, that a famished traveler, wearied out by lonely wandering in a wilderness, would have…

— Charles Dickens

“All his plans were suddenly overthrown, and the existence, so elaborately pictured, was no more than a dream which would never be realized. He…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“The flames surround me, and I feel myself slipping further from life, thinning to only the faintest shiver in the air. I yearn for…

— Madeline Miller

“The fantasy of living these experiences was one thing, but having the self-confidence to head out into the world and chase them, to take…

— Jeff Johns

“suddenly stopped myself, knowing, by an inverse logic familiar to superstitious people, that the very foretaste of sorrows to come presumed a degree of…

— André Aciman

“Every breath of air and ray of sunshine, All ingenuous thoughts and creativity, Every dried up drop of blood from battle And the movement…

— Johnny Flora

“Having come so close to losing everything, I am freed now of all fear, hesitation, and timidity, and, once revived, intend to devoutly wander…

— George Saunders