The Great Awake

“I will return.”

“Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.”

“Be yourself always, the sun takes no instructions from anyone as to how bright it should be.”

“Don’t look back - you’re not going that way.”

“If you end up with a boring, miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or some guy on television telling you how to do your shit, then you deserve it.”

“Dissatisfaction with oneself is one of the fundamental characteristics of any talented person.”

“Listen to many, speak to a few.”

“All that glitters is not gold.”

“If I am killed simply for being alive, let death be kinder than man.”

“I don’t want to be the one who mourns everything when everyone else has clearly forgotten. It’s mortifying. It’s mortifying to be the one who remembers.”

“My deplorable mania for analysis exhausts me. I doubt everything, even my doubt.”

“Were you dissapointed when you got to know me?”

“I felt there was no point in telling anyone anything that was happening inside me.”

“The Sadness will last forever.”

“You cannot make everyone think and feel as deeply as you do. This is your tragedy, because you understand them but they do not understand you.”

“I have never been the most important thing to anybody — not even myself.”

“For someone who loved words as much as I did, it was amazing how often they failed me.”