Quote by Sheena Iyengar

“It seems to him there are a thousand bars, and behind the bars, no world.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“A wise man, recognizing that the world is an illusion, does not act as if it is real, and so he escapes suffering.” The”

— Janet Evanovich

“Life is like a game of limbo in reverse. The bar keeps rising higher and we need to keep rising to the occasion.”

— Ryan Lilly

“And if the world refused to square with his version of reality then it was necessarily an uncaring world, a sour and sickening world,…

— Jonathan Franzen

“He who does not really feel himself lost, is lost without remission; that is to say, he never finds himself, never comes up against…

— José Ortega y Gasset

“Life seemed to him to be a narrow cage, and her iron bars were many and dense, and there was only one way out.”

— Leonid Andreyev

“There are so many things, he said quietly, that we can't see but that we believe in, so many places that seem to possess…

— Anne Michaels

“There's this parallel, perhaps less conscious desire, which is to numb myself to the world. To deal with the world tomorrow. Living is difficult.…

— Jowita Bydlowska

“In a universe where all values have been shattered, where religions and histories and literatures and social structures have lost their meaning, man has…

— Jud Newborn & Annette Dumbach

“He hurt everywhere, so at least he must be alive. Another comforting thought because, despite everything, he wanted to be alive. It was the…

— John Martel

“It’s in that place that we’re reminded that true life comes when we’re willing to admit that we’ve reached the end of ourselves, we’ve…

— Rob Bell

“And it's his illusions about what constitutes the real world which are inhibiting him...His reality, his reason, his society ... These are what must…

— Anonymous