“No, I slept as I always do when I am bored and have not the courage to amuse myself, or when I am hungry and have not the desire to eat.--The Count of Monte Cristo”
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Variant: I will prove myself strong when they think I am sick. I will prove myself brave when they think I am weak -Cady Sinclair
Source: We Were Liars
“Life is boring. I have experiences now only when I am writing.”
Montauk (1975)
Healer, The Power that Preserves, the third book of The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, the Unbeliever
“when I am feeling
low
all i have to do is
watch my cats
and my
courage
returns”
“When I am most deeply rooted, I feel the wildest desire to uproot myself.”
Quoted by Jan Lundius, in Does WFP Deserve the Nobel Peace Prize?, Inter Press Service News Agency, (December 2020)
Source: The Vocation of Man (1800), P. Preuss, trans. (1987), p. 4
Ich setze Mich nicht voraus, weil Ich Mich jeden Augenblick überhaupt erst setze oder schaffe, und nur dadurch Ich bin, dass Ich nicht vorausgesetzt, sondern gesetzt bin, und wiederum nur in dem Moment gesetzt, wo ich mich setze, d.h. Ich bin Schöpfer un Geschöpf in Einem.
Cambridge 1995, p. 135
The Ego and Its Own (1845)