Vishnu Unnikrishnan

“For life is at the start a chaos in which one is lost. The individual suspects this, but he is frightened at finding himself face to face with this terrible reality, and tries to cover it over with a curtain of fantasy, where everything is clear. It does not worry him that his "ideas" are not true, he uses them as trenches for the defense of his existence, as scarecrows to frighten away reality. The clear-headed man is the man who frees himself from those fantastic "ideas" and looks life in the face, realizes that everything in it is problematic, and feels himself lost. As this is the simple truth —that to live is to feel oneself lost— he who accepts it has already begun to find himself, to be on firm ground.”
― José Ortega y Gasset, The Revolt of the Masses

“The things I do not dare to do will transform into stories.”
― Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter

“they were two reasons I was scared to let people in; the damage they could do, and the damage they could find”
― Chris MC Geown

“Do you remember that in classical times when Cicero had finished speaking, the people said, "How well he spoke" but when Demosthenes had finished speaking, they said, "Let us march.”
― Adlai E. Stevenson II