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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley photo

“Solitude was my only consolation - deep, dark, deathlike solitude.”

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797–1851) English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer
Bartolomé de las Casas photo
William Golding photo

“Maybe there is a beast… maybe it's only us.”

Variant: What I mean is... maybe it's only us...
Source: Lord of the Flies

Robert Downey Jr. photo

“I'm not a poster boy for good behavior and recovery in Hollywood, I'm just a guy who knows he has a lot to be grateful for.”

Robert Downey Jr. (1965) American actor

Quoted in Dotson Rader, "I rose from the ashes" http://www.parade.com/articles/editions/2008/edition_04-20-2008/1Robert_Downey_Jr, Parade Magazine (2008-04-20)

Aleister Crowley photo

“One would go mad if one took the Bible seriously; but to take it seriously one must be already mad.”

Aleister Crowley (1875–1947) poet, mountaineer, occultist

Source: Magick: Liber ABA: Book 4

Eazy-E photo

“The boy had to pay the piper, so they all stay in fear of the neighborhood sniper”

Eazy-E (1963–1995) American rapper and producer

"Neighborhood Sniper", 5150: Home 4 tha Sick (1992).
1990s

Erica Jong photo
Osamu Dazai photo
Charles Darwin photo

“We stopped looking for monsters under our bed when we realized that they were inside us.”

Charles Darwin (1809–1882) British naturalist, author of "On the origin of species, by means of natural selection"
Jane Goodall photo
Mwanandeke Kindembo photo
John C. Maxwell photo
Ariana Grande photo

“Music is something everyone on Earth can share. Music is meant to heal us, to bring us together, to make us happy.”

Ariana Grande (1993) American singer-songwriter

Twitter statement on the Manchester terrorist attack https://twitter.com/ArianaGrande/status/868164986887176192 (26 May 2017)

John Lennon photo

“Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.”

John Lennon (1940–1980) English singer and songwriter

As quoted in Sunday Herald Sun [Melbourne, Australia] (13 January 2003)]
Variant: Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

Dogen photo
Ronald Reagan photo

“Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.”

Ronald Reagan (1911–2004) American politician, 40th president of the United States (in office from 1981 to 1989)
George Orwell photo
Johann Sebastian Bach photo

“Harmony is next to Godliness”

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750) German late baroque era composer