Contra-mundum Quote by Mark Romel

“I felt so weak and unhappy that I buried my face in the ground: I could not bear the strain of seeing around me…

— Franz Kafka

“I felt enough of the effect of withdrawing from the world then, to see that it led to an antisocial and misanthropic state of…

— Thomas Jefferson

“...but since I realised that peace and freedom were unattainable on earth, my spirit aspired aloft, and everything that my chosen path required ceased…

— Victor Pelevin

“A night of crying has silenced me. This morning it seems the whole world is against me. I've never before felt so barren, so…

— Shaun Hick

“Everyone around me was allowed, permitted to fall apart; yet I had to think twice. I couldn't bear to take another dip into an…

— M.B. Dallocchio

“I felt trapped in a world that I couldn't mould to my own desires. Others were in sunlight; I was in darkness.”

— Sebastian Faulks

“So much of what we talked of can never be written. It was born and grew and developed but not visibly. There was no…

— Sarah Ferguson

“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

“All the people who try to torment me, and who have now occupied the entire space around me, will quite gradually be thrust back…

— Franz Kafka

“In the course of my life I have discovered that a fearful abyss lies between me and other people and have realized that my…

— Sadegh Hedayat