Belly Quote by Laurence Sterne

What a miserable creature man is that he prays in fear to the skies and begs help from the unknown every time he falls…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

What terrible fear causes Man to address the Void as Thou?

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

“God In his malodorous brain what slugs and mire, Lanthorned in his oblique eyes, guttering burned! His body lodged a rat where men nursed…

— Isaac Rosenberg

“What a strange creature man is! He does not believe in God, but he does believe that if the bridge of is nose itches…

— Nikolai Gogol

“If all material were transparent—the ground that supports us, the envelope that sheathes our body—everything would be seen not as a fluttering of impalpable…

— Italo Calvino

“The unconscious no sooner touches us than we are it―we become unconscious of ourselves. That is the age-old danger, instinctively known and feared by…

— C.G. Jung

“I, to whom nature had denied the impromptu faculty; who, in public, was by nature a cypher; whose time of mental activity, even when…

— Charlotte Bronte

“ Dulce Et Decorum Est Bent double, like old beggars under sacks, Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge, Till on the haunting…

— Wilfred Owen

“To think blankness rouses certain terror and in the feeling the sudden sense of self responding down to the smallest unaided particle of its…

— Edwin Honig

“Whether the scouring, sexless eye of the bird or beast of prey disperses and sees all or concentrates and evades all saving that for…

— Mervyn Peake

When worse may yet befall, there's room for prayer, But when our fortune's at its lowest ebb, We trample fear beneath our feet, and…

— Ovid

“Faith is a myth and beliefs shift like mists on the shore; thoughts vanish; words, once pronounced, die; and the memory of yesterday is…

— Joseph Conrad