Catherine Williams

“Religion is a system of wishful illusions together with a disavowal of reality, such as we find nowhere else but in a state of blissful hallucinatory confusion. Religion's eleventh commandment is "Thou shalt not question.”
― Sigmund Freud, The Future of an Illusion

“Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.”
― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus, and Other Essays

“Life begins on the other side of despair.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

“If I can't feel, if I can't move, if I can't think, and I can't care, then what conceivable point is there in living?”
― Kay Redfield Jamison, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness