“I’m so scared of dying without ever being really seen. Can you understand?”— David Foster Wallace, amazon.com
“I hide because there’s more to me than what you see and I’m not sure you’d like the rest. I know that sometimes, I don’t like the rest.”— Iain Thomas, amazon.com
“We must embrace struggle. Every living thing conforms to it. Everything in nature grows and struggles in its own way, establishing its own identity, insisting on it at all cost, against all resistance.”— Rainer Maria Rilke, amazon.com
“I am absolutely persuaded that I am nothing in this universe; yet I feel that mine is the only real existence.”— Emil Cioran, amazon.com
“Getting lost was not a matter of geography so much as identity, a passionate desire, even an urgent need, to become no one and anyone, to shake off the shackles that remind you who you are, who others think you are.”— Rebecca Solnit, amazon.com
“We don’t exist unless there is someone who can see us existing, what we say has no meaning until someone can understand, while to be surrounded by friends is constantly to have our identity confirmed; their knowledge and care for us have the power to pull us from our numbness”— Alain de Botton, amazon.com
“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”— George Bernard Shaw, amazon.com
“There’s a notion I’d like to see buried: the ordinary person. Ridiculous. There is no ordinary person.”— Alan Moore, amazon.com
“I have never known who or what I am supposed to be. The only thing I know for sure, is that I am supposed to be more than I have been.”— William Chapman, williamchapmanwritings.tumblr.com
“I have never known who or what I am supposed to be. The only thing I know for sure, is that I am supposed to be more than I have been.”— William Chapman, williamchapmanwritings.tumblr.com
“How can I be substantial if I do not cast a shadow? I must have a dark side if I am to be whole.”— C. G. Jung, amazon.com
“The more you know yourself, the more patience you have for what you see in others.”— Joan Erikson, nytimes.com
“Only by admitting what we are can we get what we want.”— David Benioff, D. B. Weiss, Petyr Baelish, Aidan Gillen, imdb.com
“I’m going to do what I want to do. I’m going to be who I really am. And I’m going to figure out what that is.”— Stephen Chbosky, amazon.com