Blank Quote by William Wordsworth

We are so accustomed to the apparently rational nature of our world that we can scarcely imagine anything happening that cannot be explained by…

— Carl Jung

An increasing number of people who lead mental lives of great intensity, people who are sensitive by nature, notice the steadily more frequent appearance…

— Knut Hamsun

You see, my good friend, how much we are the creatures of situation and circumstance, and with what pliant servility the mind resigns itself…

— Sydney, Lady Morgan

It sometimes happened that you might be familiar with a man for several years thinking he was a wild animal, and you would regard…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

A sense of wrongness, of fraught unease, as if long nails scraped the surface of the moon, raising the hackles of the soul.

— China Mieville

“Doubts crept up on them unawares, seeping to the surface or erupting without warning. At the least, the language of temptation tells us that…

— Alec Ryrie

“Among all things that can be contemplated under the concavity of the heavens, nothing is seen that arouses the human spirit more, that ravishes…

— Pierre Boaistuau

The psychological dangers through which earlier generations were guided by the symbols and spiritual exercises of their mythological and religious inheritance, we today (in…

— Joseph Campbell

Fortunately, some are born with spiritual immune systems that sooner or later give rejection to the illusory worldview grafted upon then from birth through…

— Henri Bergson

Added to their loveliness was a new mysterious suffering, perfectly silent, visible in the blue puffiness beneath their eyes or the way they would…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

Suspicions that the mind, of itself, gathers, are but buzzes; but suspicions that are artificially nourished and put into men's heads by the tales…

— Francis Bacon

It is a denial of the divinity within us to doubt our potential and our possibilities.

— James E. Faust