Quote by Walter Kirn

“I have spent years of my life lovingly absorbed in the thoughts and perceptions of . . . people who do not exist.”

— Marilynne Robinson

“It could be said that we become so much a stranger that we disappear and find ourselves reborn in the midst of humanity which…

— Donna Goddard

“We were born from their dreams, their fears and imaginations. We are the product of their hearts and minds. Without a soul we are…

— Julie Kagawa

“I could not do this, I realized, if I were immortal. This degree of love of life and of one another is granted, I…

— Dan Simmons

“Though when I turn to regard life -- my own or others'-- I now never fail to be struck, amid the onslaught of all…

— Richard Ford

“I never think of the life I'll miss after I'm dead, or all that I missed before I was born. It's the time I'm…

— Scott Spencer

“I realized that even if no one ever found me, and even if I lived out the rest of my life here, always missing,…

— Catherine Lacey

“May you know always that you are never alone, that life and love are eternal, and that you are extraordinary.”

— Susan Barbara Apollon

“I feel that it is possible that I might never have existed, for my self consists in thought; therefore I who think would never…

— Blaise Pascal

“My life till now seems to have been fairly empty, and the certainty that it will remain empty gives a feeling of endlessness, a…

— Robert Walser

“Yet there is so much that fills me: plants, animals, clouds, day and night, and the eternal in man. The more uncertain I have…

— Carl Gustav Jung

“Never have I experienced in a people and in myself so powerful a surge of life as at that period when our very existence…

— Stefan Zweig