Joy Nicholas

“My friend tells me that memory fails me in part because nature mercifully wishes to hide from us things which are painful. The spider-web of protective forgetfulness is woven over the mouth of the cave which conceals the raw head and bloody bones of our misfortunes.

"But the greatest men," says King Lamus, "are those that refuse to be treated like squalling children, who insist on facing reality in every form, and tear off ruthlessly the bandages from their own wounds.”
― Aleister Crowley, Diary of a Drug Fiend

“Growing up meant admitting you couldn’t have everything.”
― Jay McInerney, Bright Lights, Big City

“Wisdom has its shipwrecks which are more ugly than those of madness.”
― Henri-Frédéric Amiel, The Private Journal of Henri Frederic Amiel

“He slid back into his previous position.
'Getting up so early,' he thought, 'makes one entirely stupid. People must have their sleep.”
― Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis