“Even extreme grief may ultimately vent itself in violence—but more generally takes the form of apathy...”

― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

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“Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance

“You may be as different as the sun and the moon, but the same blood flows through both your hearts.”

― George R. R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore”

― Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven

“What freedom men and women could have, were they not constantly tricked and trapped and enslaved and tortured by their sexuality! The only drawback in that freedom is that without it one would not be a human. One would be a monster.”

― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“I believe like a child that suffering will be healed and made up for, that all the humiliating absurdity of human contradictions will vanish like a pitiful mirage, like the despicable fabrication of the impotent and infinitely small Euclidian...”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“As if by running we won't have to get on with our lives.”

― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

“You must have a cigarette. A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“It is a good lesson—though it may often be a hard one—for a man who has dreamed of literary fame, and of making for himself a rank among the world's dignitaries by such means, to step aside out of the narrow circle in which his claims are...”

― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

“Joy cannot unfold the deepest truths, although deepest truth must be deepest joy.”

― George MacDonald, Phantastes

“Suffering is optional. Say you’re running and you start to think, Man this hurts, I can’t take it anymore. The hurt part is an unavoidable reality, but whether or not you can stand any more is up to the runner himself.”

― Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

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