Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

“There's a reason for every journey, and mine was prompted by boredom and the recklessness of youth, by a wish to break the bounds…

— Walter Moers

“Perhaps it is this story that is a bridge over the void, and as it advances it flings forward news and sensations and emotions…

— Italo Calvino

“so each day brought a further descent into the depths of concrete existence and a further ascent toward the heights of abstraction.”

— Jean d'Ormesson

“But as you look at the sweep of your life and start to think of a legacy that survives beyond it, giving others the…

— Tom Kelley

“It is in the nature of things to be drawn to the very experiences that will spoil our innocence, transform our lives, and give…

— Thomas Moore

“For what was civilization but the intellect’s ascendancy out of the doldrums of necessity (shelter, sustenance and survival) into the ether of the finely…

— Amor Towles

“So much had been invested in craft, in externalization, in looking for something solid out there that would fill the void, create a sense…

— Alan Arkin

“For those who wander in the depths, there is nothing deep!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“I am not able, and I do not want, completely to abandon the world-view that I acquired in childhood. So long as I remain…

— George Orwell

“Sometimes, the world suddenly seemed equal to what I required of it. But, otherwise, I was under the world, a cockroach-man scuttling beneath stones…

— Stefan Merrill Block

“I want my writings to inspire and awaken. I have no interest in spinning silly tales for money. I want to fish deep down…

— José N. Harris

“...a resistless, inanimate world of nature to be used and refashioned at will by man in his magnificent and courageous folly to wrest a…

— Frank Waters