Beckett Quote by Samuel Beckett

“From time to time, we must seek a resting point from which we can again be aware of the beauty of the world.”

— Celeste Martin - Translation TheWolfmyinnerSoul

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— Blaise Pascal

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— Kayla Severson

“I write here all I can, yet cannot express the fatigue I collapse under each night, worn to the bone with worry. I feel…

— Eli Brown

“I am learning to abandon the world before it can abandon me. Already I have given up the moon and snow, closing my shades…

— Linda Pastan

“...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

“Having come so close to losing everything, I am freed now of all fear, hesitation, and timidity, and, once revived, intend to devoutly wander…

— George Saunders

“I stood there feeling the lightness of my bones, knowing now this was not only lack of sleep that had transformed my bones into…

— Anne Spollen

“The helplessness of being alive, the dark bright pity of being human-- feeling as you went-- groping in corners and opening your arms to…

— Alice Sebold

“Sleep deprivation is physically miserable and creatively cathartic, as internal landscapes rise up from their dormant ashes.”

— Jaeda DeWalt

“When the white arm rests upon the knee it is a triangle; now it is upright - a column; now a fountain, falling. It…

— Virginia Woolf

“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