"Nothing is true, everything is permitted." ~ Hassan-i Sabbah

"I wish they sent me to Mars instead." ~ Cat Marnell

"Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing,
Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before." ~ Edgar Allan Poe

"Our kind. Us people. All of us that started the game with a crooked cue, that wanted so much and got so little, that mean so good and did so bad. All us folks." ~ The Killer Inside Me, Jim Thompson

Wednesday | 1 August 2012 | 08:51 PM

"Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn." ~ Gore Vidal

"What is to be done with the millions of facts that bear witness that men, consciously, that is fully understanding their real interests, have left them in the background and have rushed headlong on another path, to meet peril and danger, compelled to this course by nobody and nothing, but, as it were, simply disliking the beaten track, and have obstinately, wilfully, struck out another difficult, absurd way, seeking it almost in the darkness."

"What man wants is simply independent choice, whatever that independence may cost and wherever it may lead. And choice, of course, the devil only knows what choice."

"I think man will never renounce real suffering, that is, destruction and chaos. Why, suffering is the sole origin of consciousness."

"Reactionary as it is, corporal punishment is better than nothing."

Quotes from Notes From The Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"I am a sick man..." ~ Opening sentence of Notes From The Underground, Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"My little comedy is played out. The curtain is falling. Sinking into nothing, I cease to be superfluous..." ~ April 1, The Diary of a Superfluous Man, Ivan Turgenev

“I am interested in ideas, not merely in visual products” ~ Marcel Duchamp

"Yes, it is good, good to be rid, at last, of the wearing sense of life, of the persistent, restless consciousness of existence." ~ March 20, The Diary of a Superfluous Man, Ivan Turgenev

Cowards die many times before their deaths,
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,
It seems to me most strange that men should fear,
Seeing that death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come.

Nelson Mandela's favourite quote from Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare

"One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things." ~ Henry Miller

"We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing." ~ Charles Bukowski

"I write books to relieve myself of pain. That’s the prime motivator to write. Period." ~ Bret Easton Ellis

"Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom." ~ Marcel Proust

"Whatever the public blames you for, cultivate it; it is yourself!" ~ Jean Cocteau

"Altogether, I think we ought to read only books that bite and sting us. If the book we are reading doesn't shake us awake like a blow to the skull, why bother reading it in the first place? So that it can make us happy, as you put it? Good God, we'd be just as happy if we had no books at all; books that make us happy we could, in a pinch, also write ourselves. What we need are books that hit us like a most painful misfortune, like the death of someone we loved more than we love ourselves, that make use feel as though we had been banished to the woods, far from any human presence, like suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. That is what I believe." ~ Franz Kafka

"A writer's job is to be the spectator who hopes he can see more of the game and try to make sense of it." ~ Alexander Baron