Maite Pons

“We are never ‘at home’: we are always outside ourselves. Fear, desire, hope, impel us towards the future; they rob us of feelings and concern for what now is, in order to spend time over what will be – even when we ourselves shall be no more. [C] ‘Calamitosus est animus futuri anxius’ [Wretched is a mind anxious about the future].”
― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays

“Como el viajero que ha sorteado el abismo, podía asomarse a él y medir la profundidad en la que no había caído. Estaba enamorado, pero aún no estaba perdido.”
― Lucía Etxebarría, El contenido del silencio

“It is so tiring to hate someone you love.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Woman Destroyed

“Human nature, at its best, had always been based on a deep heroic restlessness, on wanting something--something else, something more, whether it be true love or a glimpse just beyond the horizon. It was the promise of happiness, not the attainment of it, that had driven the entire engine, the folly and glory of who we are.”
― Will Ferguson, Happiness