“What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, and, above all, it eats creativity. It eats quality and shits quantity.” — William S. Burroughs

“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.” — Charles Bukowski

“There's a terror in knowing what the world is about” ― David Bowie

“No matter how isolated you are and how lonely you feel, if you do your work truly and conscientiously, unknown allies will come and seek you.” ― Carl Jung

“Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.” — Fernando Pessoa

“People are strange: they are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice.” — Charles Bukowski

“You’re on earth. There’s no cure for that.” — Samuel Beckett

“I drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim.” — Frida Kahlo

“I don’t pay attention to the world ending. It has ended for me many times and began again in the morning.” — Charles Bukowski

“If a man knows more than others, he becomes lonely.” — Carl Jung

“Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.” ― Albert Camus

“All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.” ― John Steinbeck

“Social media gives legions of idiots the right to speak when they once only spoke at a bar after a glass of wine, without harming the community... but now they have the same right to speak as a Nobel Prize winner. It's the invasion of the idiots.” — Umberto Eco

“Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.” ― James Bovard

“In the very end, civilizations perish because they listen to their politicians and not to their poets.” — Jonas Mekas

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.” — Robert Frost

“I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.” — Haruki Murakami

“Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.” — Rainer Maria Rilke

“I have led a toothless life. A toothless life. I have never bitten into anything. I was waiting. I was reserving myself for later on—and I have just noticed that my teeth have gone.” — Jean-Paul Sartre

“Nothing helps; I must help myself, or I am finished.” — Friedrich Nietzsche