“You're living in the real world now,” Spider said sadly. “It’s come from something. It’s going to something. Myths always lie in the most difficult places to ignore.”

“The everyday world demands our attention, and prevents us from sinking into ourselves. As a romantic, I have always resented this: I like to sink into myself. The problems and anxieties of living make it difficult. Well, now I had an anxiety that referred to something inside of me, and it reminded me that my inner world was just as real and important as the world around me.”

Colin Wilson book The Mind Parasites

“Mom raised us to believe that every lie puts something out there in the world that's inevitably going to come back and bite you in the petunia.”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

“Going through something difficult in your life, music for me is always a friend and something that helps you to figure things out.”

Chris Martin (1977) musician, co-founder of Coldplay

“You know how you're always trying to get things to come out perfect in art because it's real difficult in life”

Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician

“Always expect something to go wrong," he told him. "Believe me, if you're wrong, you're not dissapointed. If you're right, you're ready for it.”

John Flanagan (1873–1938) Irish-American hammer thrower

“A jolly place," said he, "in times of old!
But something ails it now: the spot is cursed.”

William Wordsworth (1770–1850) English Romantic poet

“Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.”

Iris Murdoch (1919–1999) British writer and philosopher

“The great danger... not content with our real knowledge of the relation of the finite to the infinite, they slur over our vast ignorance by the help of the imagination. Myth supplies the place of true knowledge where we are ignorant of the connection between finite and infinite. Hence... most concrete systems of religion present us with a certain amount of knowledge but a great deal of myth.”

Karl Pearson (1857–1936) English mathematician and biometrician

“If when matter is destroyed other matter takes its place, the new matter must come either from something that is or from something that is not. If from that-which-is, as long as that-which-is always remains, matter always remains. But if that-which-is is destroyed, such a theory means that not the world only but everything in the universe is destroyed.
If again matter comes from that-which-is-not: in the first place, it is impossible for anything to come from that which is not; but suppose it to happen, and that matter did arise from that which is not; then, as long as there are things which are not, matter will exist. For I presume there can never be an end of things which are not.”

Sallustius Roman philosopher and writer