Quote by Fernando Pessoa

“It's precisely the sense that we're different that makes us so banal.”

— Daniel Kehlmann

“There's nothing as incomprehensible as your own inner self- and nothing as perilous.”

— Kyousuke Motomi

“Existence is in a way so banal, you may as well try and make a kind of grandeur of it”

— Francis Bacon

“Go through what is comprehensible and you conclude that only the incomprehensible gives any light.”

— Saul Bellow

“what has happened to us has happened to everyone or only us; if to everyone, then it's no novelty, and if only to us,…

— Fernando Pessoa

“Nothing happens in isolation. Everything that happens has consequences. We”

— David McCullough

“The banal perception - all the most profound perceptions are banal, at most one man finds a somewhat more original expression for it than…

— Victor Klemperer

“If everything’s treated as an exception, there is no rule.”

— Frank Sonnenberg

“Life is unbearably perverse; that which we most seek to avoid always becomes unavoidable.”

— William Lashner

“All of us improbable to one another because we are not present to one another”

— Ray Bradbury

“I have noticed that, with few exceptions, men bungle their affairs. Everywhere I see incompetence rampant, incompetence triumphant...I have accepted the universality of incompetence.”

— Raymond Hull

“People often do the incomprehensible. It’s what makes them so fascinating.”

— J.D. Robb