Not the usual “How true was [name] when they said…” quotes. These go a little deeper, into the uncomfortable corners of the mind where life stops making sense and everything becomes a question.
“He who sees too much ends up not fitting in anywhere.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
“The more you understand this world, the more you destroy yourself. That’s why fools are happy, and intelligent people live in loneliness.” ~ Unknown
“I am a victim of my own conscience, constantly feeling guilty for things I have not done.” ~ Franz Kafka
“How many years does it take to forget a minute?” ~ Unknown.
“And yet the only exciting life is the imaginary one.” ~ Virginia Woolf
“There are decades where nothing happens, and there are weeks where decades happen.” ~ Unknown
“Are we what we do with time, or are we what time does with us?” ~ Mahmud Darwish
“And if I have died and don’t know about it, of whom do I ask the time?” ~ Pablo Neruda
“Let the young man in his desperation go out and hunt. If he kills the elephant, his poverty ends. If the elephant kills him, his poverty ends.” ~ African Proverb
“Was he a man dreaming he was a butterfly, or a butterfly dreaming he was a man?” ~ Zhuang Zhou (Zhuangzi)
“Reality exists in the human mind and nowhere else.” ~ George Orwell
