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“But I must not stay in bed uselessly.”
― Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis

“how the fuck do you spel metamorfases”
― Franz Kafka

“I am constantly trying to communicate something incommunicable, to explain something inexplicable, to tell about something I only feel in my bones and which can only be experienced in those bones. Basically it is nothing other than this fear we have so often talked about, but fear spread to everything, fear of the greatest as of the smallest, fear, paralyzing fear of pronouncing a word, although this fear may not only be fear but also a longing for something greater than all that is fearful.”
― Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

“By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.”
― Franz Kafka

“I am wondering alone like a phantom in strange cities; my heart is full of loneliness--in loneliness of soul I walk along the streets, but I think and dream great things, my eyes and face are calm and good; I am beginning again to be the person I can be.”
― Thomas Wolfe

“The stellar universe ought to be a finite island in the infinite ocean of space.”
― Albert Einstein

“The world breaks everyone and
afterward many are strong at the broken places.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms

“I know of no better life purpose than to perish in attempting the great and the impossible.”
― Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“We of the craft are all crazy. Some are affected by gaiety, others by melancholy, but all are more or less touched.”
― Lord Byron

“This should have been a noble creature: he/ Hath all the energy which would have made/ A goodly frame of glorious elements,/ Had they been wisely mingled; as it is,/ It is an awful chaos-light and darkness-/ And mind and dust- and passions and pure thoughts,/ Mix'd, and contending without end or order,/ All dormant or destructive/”
― Lord Byron

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

“In the end I succeeded, but the struggle is not yet over.”
― Sigmund Freud

“The seal’s wide spindrift gaze toward paradise.”
― Hart Crane, Voyages: Six Poems

“Music has always been a matter of Energy to me, a question of Fuel. Sentimental people call it Inspiration, but what they really mean is Fuel. I have always needed Fuel. I am a serious consumer. On some nights I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio.”
― Hunter S. Thompson

“Some people will tell you that slow is good – but I’m here to tell you that fast is better. I’ve always believed this, in spite of the trouble it’s caused me. Being shot out of a cannon will always be better than being squeezed out of a tube. That is why God made fast motorcycles, Bubba…”
― Hunter S. Thompson, Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century

“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”
― Anais Nin

“Love consists of this: two solitudes that meet, protect and greet each other. ”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

“Never forget that solitude is my lot ... I implore those who love me to love my solitude."

(Letter to Mimi Romanelli, May 11, 1910)”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke, a Soul History: In the Image of Orpheus

“The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them. ”
― Agatha Christie, Agatha Christie: An Autobiography

“In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety.”
― Abraham Maslow

“But why think about that when all the golden lands ahead of you and all kinds of unforseen events wait lurking to surprise you and make you glad you're alive to see?”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

“Thoreau wrote, "the mass of men live lives of quiet desperation." This is as true today as it was back then. How many men stand on a balcony and wonder what happened?... He wanted adventure and he got two weeks' vacation. He wanted a mission and he got a lawn that needs mowing. He wanted purpose and he got a cubicle. He wanted a mighty steed and he got a minivan. He wanted a castle and he got a mortgage. He wanted a battle to fight and he got televised sports. He wanted wisdom and he got talking heads on TV. He wanted treasure and he got endless debt. He wanted every part of his life to be wonderful, and here he is... standing on a balcony, in bleak, ruminating hesitation.”
― Zan Perrion, The Alabaster Girl

“Give me a few days of peace in your arms—I need it terribly. I’m ragged, worn, exhausted. After that I can face the world.”
― Henry Miller, A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin & Henry Miller, 1932-1953

“Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?”
― Mary Oliver

“I said to the almond tree, 'Sister, speak to me of God.' And the almond tree blossomed.”
― Nikos Kazantzakis, Report to Greco

“I came to a point where I needed solitude and just stop the machine of ‘thinking’ and ‘enjoying’ what they call ‘living’, I just wanted to lie in the grass and look at the clouds.”
― Jack Kerouac

“If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself." -Rollo May”
― Rollo May

“Many people suffer from the fear of finding oneself alone, and so they don't find themselves at all.”
― Rollo May, Man's Search for Himself

“In order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for constructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being alone.”
― Rollo May