Comprehension Quote by Miles Franklin

“Overpowered by the sadness of not knowing what there is in the world, and what I'm doing. Feeling completely indifferent to good and evil…

— Jack Kerouac

“We are therefore blessed with powerful minds yet at the same time cursed, not only to die, but to know that we must.”

— Stephen Cave

“Sometimes I feel as if I'm cursed. A slow, hungry curse that has worked its way across my entire life, stripping me of everything…

— Morgan Rhodes

“I have no power at all over people, places and things, and if I ever for a moment mistakenly believe that I do, and…

— Russell Brand

“I work and think all day; and when night comes early dour gloom settles down on my soul…at such hours I am bankrupt in…

— L M Montgomery

“Reality, the present, the irreparable, the necessary, repel and even terrify me. I have too much imagination, conscience, and penetration and not enough character.…

— Henri-Frédéric Amiel

“I don't know how it is with others, and my feeling is that I cannot be like any other. Any other thinks, and then…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“But it's a curse, a condemnation, like an act of provocation, to have been aroused from not being, to have been conjured up from…

— Paul Harding

“I should never, perhaps, have heard even the name of the woman who has lived in all my thoughts, who has possessed herself of…

— Wilkie Collins

“Because I couldn't bear my burden and have come to throw it on another: you suffer too, and I shall feel better! And can…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“It’s not the power of the curse, it is the power you give the curse.”

— Marilyn Kaye

“I suppose it's comfort, perhaps a sense of self-control, doing worse things to yourself than the world will ever dare to inflict.”

— Chuck Palahniuk