Inner life Quote by Oliver Sacks

“Paradox is beloved of novelists. The despised savior, the humane whore, the selfish man suddenly munificent, the wise fool, and the cowardly hero. Most…

— Thomas Keneally

The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great…

— Soren Kierkegaard

“irony. I know nothing greater, nor more worthy of the truly great man, than the patient and expressive analysis of the ways in which…

— Fernando Pessoa

The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great…

— Soren Kierkegaard

“We offhandedly devised many imaginary scenarios during the course of any given day, a habit that began as acerbic banter between two hypersharp intelligences,…

— David Cronenberg

“I sometimes have moments of such despair, such despair … Because in those moments I start to think that I will never be capable…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“A good, but unexamined life will be high on duty and not likely to celebrate the odd paradoxes, the ironic coincidences and the humor…

— C.S. Lewis

“It may, after all, be the bad habit of creative talents to invest themselves in pathological extremes that yield remarkable insights but no durable…

— Theodore Roszak

“When an imaginative person gets into mental trouble, the line between seeming and being has a way of disappearing-”

— Stephen King

“It is almost laughable to ponder upon where it all started and nearly grim and shameful when we realise as humans that we are…

— Santosh Kalwar

“He lived within himself, nourished by his own substance, like some torpid creature which hibernates in caves. Solitude had reacted upon his brain like…

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

“The world is full of alluring, flashy and thrilling experiences, which are illusionary traps — they are paths to nowhere.”

— Bryant McGill