Quote by Sarah Dessen

“There are no definite consequences of how you feel, but there will be undeniable consequences of how you act.”

— Amit Kalantri

“No wonder I'd always felt lost. I actually was. The knowledge felt terrible, but in a strange way, it also felt good. Now I…

— Lish McBride

“I felt that my whole life was bound to go on in the same solitude and helpless dreariness, from which I myself had no…

— Leo Tolstoy

“The greatest hazard of all, losing one's self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all.”

— Kierkegaard

“But I had absolutely lost all sense of personal dignity, and could not tear myself away from the spectacle of my own misery.”

— Ivan Turgenev

“There is a real-enough danger, I suppose, that sooner or later I'll bog down, perhaps disappear entirely, in my own methods, locutions, and mannerisms.…

— J.D. Salinger

“Perception of personal danger very often set people on the path of virtue.”

— Donna Leon

“Nothing had consequence, I was living in the moment and I could feel myself getting shallower and dumber.”

— Gillian Flynn

“And it now occurred to me that maybe the whole point was, in fact, to lose yourself. But not in the sense of confusion--in…

— Tanuja Desai Hidier

“But these were days of self-fulfillment, where settling for something that was not quite your first choice of a life seemed weak-willed and ignoble.…

— Hanya Yanagihara

“If you let the fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, then your life will be safe, expedient and thin.”

— Katharine Butler Hathaway

“You are lost because you have not been being honest with yourself, and your life is largely unexamined and unexerted.”

— Bryant McGill