Suddenly Frankenstein

“God was invented by the lonely people, by those who could not bear to think that no one would ever care about them, spend a thought on their loneliness. We are not chosen, what we are is terribly lonely and unloved. And all those righteous men who withdraw from the world to be with God—they’re leaving us behind because they think they can spend their life with the only being that truly loves them.”
― Aleksandar Hemon, The World and All That It Holds

“If you march your Winter Journeys you will have your reward, so long as all you want is a penguin's egg.”
― Apsley Cherry-Garrard, The Worst Journey in the World

“The highest moment of freedom
was attained. To fire on God, to wound him and make him a deadly enemy.
I fired. I fired three shots.”
― Jean Genet, Funeral Rites

“I don't like myself, you know. I love myself, of course, I'm committed to myself till my dying day. But I don't like myself.”
― Anne Rice, Memnoch the Devil