There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

Because you are a great lord, you believe yourself to be a great genius. You took the trouble to be born, but no more.

Pierre De Beaumarchais

I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.

Anais Nin

It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.

E. M. Cioran

There's one advantage in having been around as long as I have. Everybody in the Senate knows me, and - I'm going to say something presumptuous, to repeat myself - I think most respect me.

Joe Biden

The truth is there are two hundred white women raped in America by a black man for every one black woman raped by whites.

David Duke

I lost some of my friends because I got so famous, people who just assumed that I would be different now. I felt like everyone hated me. That is the most unhappy time of my life.

Haruki Murakami

I remember when I was in college, people told me I couldn't play in the NBA. There's always somebody saying you can't do it, and those people have to be ignored.

Bill Cartwright

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

Thomas Fuller

Does not the ear of Handel predict the witchcraft of harmonic sound?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Sometimes the truth hurts. And sometimes it feels real good.

Henry Rollins

The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home.

Jeanette Winterson