Quote by Henry Miller

“I am for the most part so convinced that everything is lacking in basis, consequence, justification, that if someone dared to contradict me, even…

— Emil Cioran

“Was it a form of madness, no longer to be able to trust your sense of things? To be betrayed by decisions apparently arrived…

— Paul Russell

“The more I thought about it, the more I realized there had been threats I had discounted and opportunities to end fights I had…

— Darius Brasher

“I had always detested the meddlesome alarmist, who veils ignorance under noisiness, and for ever wails his chant of lugubrious pessimism.”

— Erskine Childers

“Something was unfurling within me from behind the fear of societal expectation. Something true and deep. A part of my soul I'd always known…

— Natasha Boyd

“I probably felt more resentment for what I personally was to suffer than for the wrong they were doing to anyone and everyone. But…

— St. Augustine of Hippo

“Although I could not have told about it at the time, I can now remember the feeling of being cut off from other people,…

— Marion Milner

“Yes, my particular virtue of being very often objective, and thus sidetracked from thinking about myself, suffers lapses of affirmation, as do all virtues…

— Fernando Pessoa

“I found it difficult to accept that people could be so easily manipulated into supporting positions that contradicted both their self-proclaimed values and their…

— Frederic C. Rich

“I had hoped to be disliked by most, not by way of rebellion, but by way of excellence, disdain for the habitual, and the…

— Jamie Weise

“I learned that you could so fully inhabit a character that you could fool others, move others. With talent and commitment, you could seduce…

— Bryan Cranston

“Your every ill-thought, secreted hate, cynical and vicious judgment you carry is meant only for you.”

— Bryant McGill