Franz Kafka

“Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“You are free and that is why you are lost.”
― Franz Kafka, Letter to His Father

“They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.”
― Seneca, On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It

“A wild longing for strong emotions and sensations seethes in me, a rage against this toneless, flat, normal and sterile life. I have a mad impulse to smash something, a warehouse perhaps, or a cathedral, or myself, to committ outrages...”
― Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf