"I don't have the strength to keep writing this. To go on living with this feeling is painful beyond description. Isn't there someone kind enough to strangle me in my sleep?"

-- RyÅ«nosuke Akutagawa

#Sleep Quotes #Writing Quotes #Feelings Quotes

“The Commons is one of the most depressing and intellectually unstimulating places in the country. [On the state of British politics”
“All these people I interview are worth ten times what I'm worth.”
“I'm excited to doing more scoring work in the future.”
“I can not do everything, but I can do something. I must not fail to do the something that I can do.”
“You have the right to not have to constantly manage how you look for other people's sake. You aren't here to decorate the world for other people. You're here to live in it for yourself, no matter what that looks like.”

Source : Hanne Blank (2012). “The Unapologetic Fat Girl's Guide to Exercise and Other Incendiary Acts”, p.63, Ten Speed Press
“I identify as being an independent artist. I think people often forget that Indie is actually short for independent. For me, the word has a meaning more than what it connotes from an industry standpoint.”
“Horror is a feeling that cannot last long; human nature is incapable of supporting it. Sadness, whether it be from bereavement, or disappointment, or misfortune of any kind may linger on through life”

Source : James De Mille (2015). “A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder”, p.108, Booklassic
“I know no such thing as genius, â€” genius is nothing but labor and diligence.”

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