Monte Jacobs

“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the desperate country, and have to console yourself with the bravery of minks and muskrats. A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. There is no play in them, for this comes after work. But it is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things..”
― Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience and Other Essays

“The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.”
― Virginia Woolf

“It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche