Wolfe Tone

“I have always shook with fright before human beings. Unable as I was to feel the least particle of confidence in my ability to speak and act like a human being, I kept my solitary agonies locked in my breast. I kept my melancholy and my agitation hidden, careful lest any trace should be left exposed. I feigned an innocent optimism; I gradually perfected myself in the role of the farcical eccentric.”
― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

“All the time I pray to Buddha
I keep on
killing mosquitoes.”
― Kobayashi Issa

“Art is not a mirror held up to reality
but a hammer with which to shape it.”
― Bertolt Brecht

“Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.”
― Oscar Wilde