Avoided Quote by Nat Turner

Sometimes I feel that I am destined always to be offstage whenever the main action occurs. That God has made me the victim of…

— Jonathan Coe

Cure yourself of the affliction of caring how you appear to others. Concern yourself only with how you appear before God, concern yourself only…

— Miguel de Unamuno

I always have this fear that one day everyone is going to discover that I'm not as great as you thought I once was.

— James Merrow

The years I have squandered in puerile excitement, in going hither and thither, in seeking to force nature and time, I ought to have…

— Theophile Gautier

Sometimes I heard voices muttering in my head, and a lot of the time the world seemed to smolder around its edges. but I…

— Denis Johnson

I cannot become modest; too many things burn in me; the old solutions are falling apart; nothing has been done yet with the new…

— Elias Canetti

I am so used to plunging into the unknown that any other surroundings and form of existence strike me as exotic and unsuitable for…

— Werner Herzog

I've always had this deep-down conviction that I'm not like everybody else, and there's an amazingly exciting new life waiting for me just around…

— Sophie Kinsella

Resolved, never henceforward, till I die, to act as if I were any way my own, but entirely and altogether God's.

— Jonathan Edwards

I am very much out of my element here. There are moments, listening to the conversations going on around me, when I feel I…

— Mary Roach

For me, so much of my life has been this attempt to find my way back into my body. I tried various forms, from…

— Eve Ensler

I am fated to journey hand in hand with my strange heroes and to survey the surging immensity of life, to survey it through…

— Nikolai Gogol