Sri Aurobindo (1872–1950) Indian nationalist, freedom fighter, philosopher, yogi, guru and poet
Thoughts and Aphorisms (1913), Jnana
“I suffered at the time from an ugliness I no longer find on my childhood face.”
— Jean Genet, book The Thief's Journal
The Thief's Journal (1949)
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French novelist, playwright, poet and political activist 1910–1986Related quotes
Gloria Estefan (1957) Cuban-American singer-songwriter, actress and divorciada
cubanet.org (May 15, 2000)
2007, 2008
“I will have to face an ugly truth that has been gnawing through my head…”
Michael Moore (1954) American filmmaker, author, social critic, and liberal activist
In response to the September 11 attacks on New York City
2001
Context: I can't even think about this movie. I don't WANT to think about it because if I think about it I will have to face an ugly truth that has been gnawing through my head...
This started out as a documentary on gun violence in America, but the largest mass murder in our history was just committed — without the use of a single gun! Not a single bullet fired! No bomb was set off, no missile was fired, no weapon (i. e., a device that was solely and specifically manufactured to kill humans) was used. A boxcutter! — I can't stop thinking about this. A thousand gun control laws would not have prevented this massacre. What am I doing?
Charles Brockden Brown (1771–1810) American novelist, historian and editor
Wieland; or, the Transformation (1798)
Michel De Montaigne (1533–1592) (1533-1592) French-Occitan author, humanistic philosopher, statesman
Attributed
“From the beginning of time,
in childhood, I thought
that pain meant
I was not loved.
It meant I loved.”
Louise Glück (1943–2023) American poet
Source: "First Memory", Ararat (1990)
Thomas Mann (1875–1955) German novelist, and 1929 Nobel Prize laureate
Letter from Naples, Italy to Otto Grautoff (1896); as quoted in A Gorgon's Mask: The Mother in Thomas Mann's Fiction (2005) by Lewis A. Lawson, p. 34
Context: I think of my suffering, of the problem of my suffering. What am I suffering from? From knowledge — is it going to destroy me? What am I suffering from? From sexuality — is it going to destroy me? How I hate it, this knowledge which forces even art to join it! How I hate it, this sensuality, which claims everything fine and good is its consequence and effect. Alas, it is the poison that lurks in everything fine and good! — How am I to free myself of knowledge? By religion? How am I to free myself of sexuality? By eating rice?
Ryū Murakami book Audition
like it was chipping away at at me, at my life.“
Source: Audition (1997), Chapter Five, Yoshikawa Asami
