Alienated individuals are condemned to lives spent effectively watching themselves.
-Sadie Plant
The more sensitive you are, the more certain you are to be brutalized, develop scabs, never evolve. Never allow yourself to feel anything, because you always feel too much.
-Marlon Brando
You can never know what your words might turn out to mean for yourself or for someone else; or what the world they make will be like. Anything could happen. The problem with silence is that we know exactly what it will be like.
-Hanif Kureishi
la tristesse durera toujours (sadness will always last).
-Vincent Van Gogh
It is impossible to achieve the aim without suffering.
-John G. Bennett
I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
-Michel de Montaigne
I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
-Michel de Montaigne