“It is lonely when you’re among people, too.”

— Antoine de Saint Exupéry, The Little Prince

“Years ago I cared. Now I don’t. I know I am lost but I don’t want to be found.”

— Henry Rollins, Solipsist

“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.”

— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.”

— Virginia Woolf

“Don’t take anything personally. Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions of others, you won’t be the victim of needless suffering.”

— Don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements

“There are times when I am convinced I am unfit for any human relationship.”

— Franz Kafka, Letters To Felice

“What is it that brings on these moods of yours? Nothing mysterious: the ordinary pain of being alive.”

— Charles Baudelaire, The Flowers of Evil

“Death is the most sophisticated form of beauty, and the most difficult to accept.”

— Simon Van Booy, Everything Beautiful Began After

“I’m with you. No matter what else you have in your head I’m with you and I love you.”

— Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden

“Believing something existed and then finding out it didn’t was like reaching the top of the stairs and thinking there was one more step.”

— Francesca Zappia, Made You Up

“Have you ever asked yourself, do monsters make war, or does war make monsters?”

— Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone

“I shall go on shining as a brilliantly meaningless figure in a meaningless world.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

“By then I knew that everything good and bad left an emptiness when it stopped. But if it was bad, the emptiness filled up by itself. If it was good you could only fill it by finding something better.”

— Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast

“I always felt like I saw things differently. Saw things other people didn’t.”

— Lois Lowry, The Giver

“I want to look back and say that I was alive. That I didn’t turn my back. That I tried. That I was happy.”

— Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

“Her smile, I’m sure, burnt Rome to the ground.”

— Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves

“You misinterpret everything, even the silence.”

— Franz Kafka, The Castle