Drive Quote by Stephen Karam

For life is terribly deficient in form. Its catastrophes happen in the wrong way and to the wrong people. There is a grotesque horror…

— Oscar Wilde

I've found that contemporary psychology enrages me with its simplistic ideas of human life, and also its emptiness.

— James Hillman

In horror stories or in fairy tales, the fascination with the morbid is also, at least for me, a way to prepare for the…

— Cindy Sherman

That humankind has fallen into the insanity of concensus trance, and lost touch with our true possibilities and functions is a tragedy.

— Charles Tart

Some discouragement, some faintness of heart at the new real future which replaces the imaginary, is not unusual, and we do not expect people…

— George Eliot

To me, the human experience does involve a great deal of anguish. It's joyful, but it's bittersweet. I just think that's life.

— Amy Grant

What for me is bliss and life and ecstasy and exaltation, the world in general seeks at most in imagination; in life it finds…

— Hermann Hesse

After having read a lot of fiction, literature, whatever you want to call it, from Wolfe to Houellebecq, I think you have to have…

— Henry Rollins

The human condition itself inspires me.

— Nathan Parsons

I've often thought that one of us is what we imagine, that each of us normalizes the terrible strangeness of inner life with a…

— Siri Hustvedt

I see tragedy and comedy and pain and irony and all that stuff. But in the end I think life is fascinating, and I…

— Barack Obama

I am fascinated by the whole process of what it's like to be alive, whether it's unbelievably uncomfortable and horrible or whether it's quite…

— Charlotte Rampling