Feels Quote by Ned Beauman

“Schopenhauer was right: Life has to be about disillusionment stumbling inexorably towards the totally fucked.”

— Irvine Welsh

“What I want to write is that I lay there until morning, with tear-stained eyes, a tear-stained pillow, a tear-stained life. What can one…

— Darin Strauss

“Most days I live awed by the world we have still, rather than mourning the worlds we have lost. The bandit mask of a…

— Paul Bogard

Though the most beautiful creature were waiting for me at the end of a journey or a walk; though the carpet were of silk,…

— John Keats

“As I lay in the dark, listening to the distant rush of the waterfall, I hoped that part of me would always be nine…

— Hazel Gaynor

“...nothing is more blissful than to occupy the heights effectively fortified by the teaching of the wise, tranquil sanctuaries from which you can look…

— Lucretius

To render my works properly requires a combination of extreme precision and irresistible verve, a regulated vehemence, a dreamy tenderness, and an almost morbid…

— Hector Berlioz

That powers my desire to write: the sense of how quickly everything on the surface of life can be cut away and you can…

— Nicole Krauss

And some day there will be nothing left of everything that has twisted my life and grieved it and filled me so often with…

— Hermann Hesse

I entrench myself in my books equally against sorrow and the weather.

— Leigh Hunt

“When the last days were upon me, and the ugly trifles of existence began to drive me to madness like the small drops of…

— H. P. Lovecraft

Looking from the window at the fantastic light and colour of my glittering fairy-world of fact that holds no tenderness, no quietude, I long…

— Daphne du Maurier