People living deeply have no fear of death.
– Anaïs Nin
Category: Quotes
The role of a writer …
The role of a writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say.
– Anaïs Nin
I was never insane …
I was never insane.
Except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
– Edgar Allan Poe
Sometimes I lie awake at night …
Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, ‘Where have I gone wrong’.
Then a voice says to me, ‘This is going to take more than one night.’
― Charles M. Schulz
Du brauchst nicht schlafen …
Du brauchst nicht schlafen,
aber der Morgen kommt trotzdem
und bringt mit sich ein Erwachen.
– sanados
hast du schon einmal den Wunsch gehabt …
Hast du schon einmal den Wunsch gehabt, mich umzubringen?
[Haruki Murakami – Wilde Schafsjagd]
Don’t walk …
Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead.
Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow.
Just walk beside me and be my friend.
– Albert Camus
I dream.
I dream. Sometimes I think that’s the only right thing to do.
– Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart
I have cried
I’ve cried, and you’d think I’d be better for it, but the sadness just sleeps, and it stays in my spine the rest of my life.
– Conor Oberst
I don’t go out of my way …
I don’t go out of my way to make friends, that’s all.
– Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
I just feel pain …
I just feel pain.
A lot of pain.
I thought I could imagine how much this would hurt, but I was wrong.
― Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun
A love like that was a serious illness …
A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.
– Charles Bukowski, The People Look Like Flowers at Last