Driven Quote by Susanna Kaysen

“We are, therefore, seeking how the mind can follow a smooth and steady course, well disposed to itself, happily regarding its own condition and…

— Seneca

Mediocrity is perhaps due not so much to lack of imagination as to lack of faith in the imagination, lack of the capacity for…

— Denise Levertov

“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

Something deep in the human heart breaks at the thought of a life of mediocrity.

— C. S. Lewis

“How intense can be the longing to escape from the emptiness and dullness of human verbosity, to take refuge in nature, apparently so inarticulate,…

— Boris Pasternak

But it's precisely in this cold, loathsome half-despair, half-belief, in this deliberate burying of yourself underground for forty years out of sheer pain, in…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose”

— Mary Shelley

The mind's pleasures are made to calm the tempests of the heart.

— Madame de Stael

The creative mind is restless.

— Rishi Kapoor

“There are... otherwise quite decent people who are so dull of nature that they believe that they must attribute the swift flight of fancy…

— E.T.A. Hoffmann

“I dreamily and digestively drowse. I have time, between synaesthesias. And it's extraordinary to think that, if I were asked right now what I…

— Fernando Pessoa

It is quite evident that a barrier must be cleared in order to escape the psychologists and enter into a realm which is not…

— Gaston Bachelard