"In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings."
— Anaïs Nin

"He who stands for nothing will fall for anything."
— Alexander Hamilton

"Lock up your libraries if you like, but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind."
— Virginia Woolf (A Room of One's Own)

"I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will."
— Charlotte Brontë

"Yes, my consuming desire is to mingle with road crews, sailors and soldiers, barroom regulars—to be a part of a scene, anonymous, listening, recording—all this is spoiled by the fact that I am a girl, a female always supposedly in danger of assault and battery. My consuming interest in men and their lives is often misconstrued as a desire to seduce them, or as an invitation to intimacy. Yes, God, I want to talk to everybody as deeply as I can. I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night..."
— Sylvia Plath

"When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes."
— Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus

"She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain."
— Louisa May Alcott (Work: A Story of Experience)

"Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea."
— Robert A. Heinlein

"For most of history, Anonymous was a woman."
— Virginia Woolf

"There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out."
— Mae West

"I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond. "
— Mae West

"Ladies who play with fire must remember that smoke gets in their eyes."
— Mae West

"I use to be Snow White, but I drifted."
— Mae West

"If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world."
— C.S. Lewis

"We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations."
— Anaïs Nin

"I am only responsible for my own heart, you offered yours up for the smashing my darling. Only a fool would give out such a vital organ"
— Anaïs Nin

"Without music, life would be a mistake."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain."
— Bob Marley

"Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music."
— George Carlin

"People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent videos; we are scared that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobodies worries about kids listening to thousands - literally thousands - of songs about broken hearts and rejection and pain and misery and loss."
— Nick Hornby (High Fidelity)

"Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness."
— Maya Angelou

"Music . . . can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable."
— Leonard Bernstein

"If you look in the mirror and don't like what you see, you can find out first hand what it's like to be me."
— Gerard Way

"Pop music often tells you everything is OK, while rock music tells you that it's not OK, but you can change it."
— Bono (On the Move)

"Women should be obscene and not heard."
— John Lennon