"We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life."

Williams, Tennessee | Loneliness | 4 bookmarks

"Now, on the road to freedom, I was pausing for a moment near Temuco and could hear the voice of the water that had taught me to sing. "

Neruda, Pablo | Childhood | 1 bookmarks

"I know what I am fleeing from, but not what I am in search of."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De | Fear | 2 bookmarks

"Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we storm heaven itself in our folly."

Horace | Ambition | 1 bookmarks

"We were that generation called silent, but we were silent neither, as some thought, because we shared the period's official optimism nor, as others thought, because we feared its official repression. We were silent because the exhilaration of social action seemed to many of us just one more way of escaping the personal, of masking for a while that dread of the meaningless which was man's fate."

Didion, Joan | Twentieth Century | 2 bookmarks

"Many people I know in Los Angeles believe that the Sixties ended abruptly on August 9, 1969, ended at the exact moment when word of the murders on Cielo Drive traveled like brushfire through the community, and in a sense this is true. The tension broke that day. The paranoia was fulfilled."

Didion, Joan | Twentieth Century | 1 bookmarks

"When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something or need something, not that it is a pragmatic necessity for us to have it, but that it is a moral imperative that we have it, then is when we join the fashionable madmen, and then is when the thin whine of hysteria is heard in the land, and then is when we are in bad trouble."

Didion, Joan | Morality | 2 bookmarks

"Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscrib'd one self place; for where we are is Hell, and where Hell is, there must we ever be."

Marlowe, Christopher | Hell | 2 bookmarks

"I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but innocence."

Marlowe, Christopher | Religion | 1 bookmarks

"All books are either dreams or swords."

Lowell, Amy | Books - Reading | 3 bookmarks