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  • #1
    Charles Bukowski
    “People empty me. I have to get away to refill.”
    Charles Bukowski

  • #2
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!”
    Friedrich Nietzsche

  • #3
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche

  • #4
    Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
    “When I kill a man, I do it with my sword, but people like you don't use swords. You gentlemen kill with your power, with your money, and sometimes just with your words: you tell people you're doing them a favor. True, no blood flows, the man is still alive, but you've killed him all the same. I don't know whose sin is greater - yours or mine.”
    Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

  • #5
    Nikolai Gogol
    “The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.”
    Nikolai V. Gogol

  • #6
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.”
    Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

  • #7
    Albert Camus
    “The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”
    Albert Camus

  • #8
    Seneca
    “You act like mortals in all that you fear, and like immortals in all that you desire”
    Lucius Annaeus Seneca, On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It

  • #9
    Albert Camus
    “Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”
    Albert Camus

  • #10
    Seneca
    “Leisure without books is death, and burial of a man alive.”
    Lucius Annaeus Seneca

  • #11
    Franz Kafka
    “One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die. This life appears unbearable, another unattainable. One is no longer ashamed of wanting to die; one asks to be moved from the old cell, which one hates, to a new one, which one willl only in time come to hate. In this there is also a residue of belief that during the move the master will chance to come along the corridor, look at the prisoner and say: "This man is not to be locked up again, He is to come with me.”
    Franz Kafka, The Blue Octavo Notebooks

  • #12
    Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
    “It is unfortunate for the gods that, unlike us, they cannot commit suicide.”
    Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Rashōmon and Seventeen Other Stories

  • #13
    Seneca
    “A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer's hand.”
    Seneca

  • #14
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “You sensed that you should be following a different path, a more ambitious one, you felt that you were destined for other things but you had no idea how to achieve them and in your misery you began to hate everything around you.”
    Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Netochka Nezvanova

  • #15
    Marcus Aurelius
    “Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.”
    Marcus Aurelius , Meditations

  • #16
    Alfred Stieglitz
    “People—People.—Phone.—Phone.—Endless. And I am so tired.—And I would like to sleep under trees—Red ones—Blue ones—Swirling passionate ones—”
    Alfred Stieglitz, My Faraway One: Selected Letters of Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz

  • #17
    Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
    “I don't have the strength to keep writing this. To go on living with this feeling is painful beyond description. Isn't there someone kind enough to strangle me in my sleep?”
    Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Rashōmon and Seventeen Other Stories

  • #18
    Albert Camus
    “I didn’t like having to explain to them, so I just shut up, smoked a cigarette, and looked at the sea.”
    Albert Camus, The Stranger

  • #19
    Anne Carson
    “Theseus: Stop. Give me your hand. I am your friend.

    Herakles: I fear to stain your clothes with blood.

    Theseus: Stain them, I don't care.”
    Anne Carson, Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides

  • #20
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different.”
    Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country

  • #21
    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

  • #22
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.”
    Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

  • #23
    Kahlil Gibran
    “There must be something strangely sacred in salt. It is in our tears and in the sea.”
    Khalil Gibran

  • #24
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Man is a creature that can get accustomed to anything, and I think that is the best definition of him.”
    Fyodor Dostoevsky, The House of the Dead

  • #25
    Albert Camus
    “Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee? But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.”
    Albert Camus, A Happy Death

  • #26
    Albert Camus
    “I feel like getting married, or committing suicide, or subscribing to L'Illustration. Something desperate, you know.”
    Albert Camus, A Happy Death

  • #27
    Akira Kurosawa
    “Man is a genius when he is dreaming.”
    Akira Kurosawa

  • #28
    T.S. Eliot
    “Books. Cats. Life is good.”
    T.S. Eliot

  • #29
    L.M. Montgomery
    “Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?”
    L.M. Montgomery

  • #30
    Franz Kafka
    “I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.”
    Franz Kafka



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