Fall Quote by Mark Fisher

Thrown into the atmosphere of action [in 1954], I suddenly understood the kind of neurosis that dominated all my previous work. I had not…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

So coming back from a journey, or after an illness, before habits had spun themselves across the surface, one felt that same unreality, which…

— Virginia Woolf

“I say, "it seemed to me," for from the depths of my past childhood, there now awoke in me the glimmerings of a thousand…

— André Gide

once a man had thrust his hands into the soil and knew the grit of it between his teeth, he felt something rise within…

— Martha Ostenso

I found everything so remote but, at the same time, familiar when I occasionally looked into the mountains, rocks, pine trees and plums depicted…

— Zhang Xiaogang

“Woke up this morning, rather early, with a sense of a mind that had penetrated into unknown depths. It was as though the mind…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

I perceived that I was on a little round grain of rock and metal, filmed with water and with air, whirling in sunlight and…

— Olaf Stapledon

All who remember their childhood remember the strange vague sense, when some new experience came, that everything else was going to be changed, and…

— George Eliot

I'm certain, as we filled down the great staircase, that I appeared the same as ever, a moping twelve years-old, all arms and legs.…

— Patti Smith

All my early memories are of forms and shapes and textures. Moving through and over the West Riding landscape with my father in his…

— Barbara Hepworth

This was what it meant to be human, to know that time moved and all things changed.

— Alice Hoffman

“under time pressure, they began to behave just as people do when they are highly aroused. they stopped relying on the actual evidence of…

— Malcolm Gladwell