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  • #1
    Sigmund Freud
    “One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.”
    Sigmund Freud

  • #2
    Emil M. Cioran
    “It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.”
    Emil Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born

  • #3
    Emil M. Cioran
    “I don’t understand why we must do things in this world, why we must have friends and aspirations, hopes and dreams. Wouldn’t it be better to retreat to a faraway corner of the world, where all its noise and complications would be heard no more? Then we could renounce culture and ambitions; we would lose everything and gain nothing; for what is there to be gained from this world?”
    Emil Cioran, On the Heights of Despair

  • #4
    Emil M. Cioran
    “How important can it be that I suffer and think? My presence in this world will disturb a few tranquil lives and will unsettle the unconscious and pleasant naiveté of others. Although I feel that my tragedy is the greatest in history—greater than the fall of empires—I am nevertheless aware of my total insignificance. I am absolutely persuaded that I am nothing in this universe; yet I feel that mine is the only real existence.”
    Emil Cioran, On the Heights of Despair

  • #5
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.”
    Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

  • #6
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.”
    Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

  • #7
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.”
    Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

  • #8
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”
    Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

  • #9
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “The soul is healed by being with children.”
    Fyodor Dostoevsky

  • #10
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man.”
    Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

  • #12
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering...”
    Fyodor Dostoevsky

  • #13
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “The world says: "You have needs -- satisfy them. You have as much right as the rich and the mighty. Don't hesitate to satisfy your needs; indeed, expand your needs and demand more." This is the worldly doctrine of today. And they believe that this is freedom. The result for the rich is isolation and suicide, for the poor, envy and murder.”
    Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

  • #14
    Colin Wilson
    “Imagination should be used, not to escape reality, but to create it.”
    Colin Wilson

  • #15
    Colin Wilson
    “Ask the Outsider what he ultimately wants,and he will admit he doesn't know.Why? Because he wants it instinctively,and it is not always possible to tell what your instincts are driving towards.”
    Colin Wilson, The Outsider

  • #16
    Hermann Hesse
    “In eternity there is no time, only an instant long enough for a joke.”
    Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf

  • #17
    Hermann Hesse
    “My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life.”
    Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

  • #18
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “I think the devil doesn't exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.”
    Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

  • #19
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the PRIVACY of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded.”
    Dostoyevsky Fyodor

  • #20
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “My God, a moment of bliss. Why, isn't that enough for a whole lifetime?”
    Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights

  • #21
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.”
    Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

  • #22
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Killing myself was a matter of such indifference to me that I felt like waiting for a moment when it would make some difference.”
    Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

  • #23
    Neil Gaiman
    “Life is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.”
    Neil Gaiman

  • #24
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald

  • #25
    Franz Kafka
    “I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.”
    Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis

  • #26
    Anton Chekhov
    “What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.”
    A.P. Chekhov

  • #27
    Anton Chekhov
    “The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.”
    Anton Chekhov

  • #28
    Anton Chekhov
    “I think human beings must have faith or must look for faith, otherwise our life is empty, empty. To live and not to know why the cranes fly, why children are born, why there are stars in the sky. You must know why you are alive, or else everything is nonsense, just blowing in the wind.”
    Anton Chekhov

  • #29
    Albert Camus
    “Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
    Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
    Walk beside me… just be my friend”
    Albert Camus

  • #30
    Albert Camus
    “Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”
    Albert Camus

  • #31
    Albert Camus
    “Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”
    Albert Camus



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