Scott

“I'll walk where my own nature would be leading. It vexes me to choose another guide.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Nowhere and oblivion were completely different things/places to Richard Stein. For
him, oblivion is when something goes into nothing and nowhere is the place where
something can come out of nothing.”
― Carlton Mellick III, Satan Burger

“Is it possible that existence is our exile and nothingness our home?”
― Emil Cioran, Tears and Saints

“Yet again, the more you strive for some kind of perfection or mastery—in
morals, in art or in spirituality—the more you see that you are playing a
rarified and lofty form of the old ego-game, and that your attainment of
any height is apparent to yourself and to others only by contrast with
someone else's depth or failure.”
― Alan Wilson Watts, The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are