"We have to lie to ourselves to live. Otherwise, we'd go crazy."

“That is all I want in life: for this pain to seem purposeful.”

Source : Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.55, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

“Behind every dark cloud there's usually rain”

“In the 1920's it was legs. My God, women hadn't shown their legs for 2000 years.”

“Kepler's discovery would not have been possible without the doctrine of conics. Now contemporaries of Kepler-such penetrating minds as Descartes and Pascal-were abandoning the study of geometry ... because they said it was so UTTERLY USELESS. There was the future of the human race almost trembling in the balance; for had not the geometry of conic sections already been worked out in large measure, and had their opinion that only sciences apparently useful ought to be pursued, the nineteenth century would have had none of those characters which distinguish it from the ancien régime.”

“I eat super healthy and I'm super fit. I dabble in every type of fitness. I have a trainer and I go to the gym. I do yoga as well.”

“The only way artists can do things is to do it for themselves. Trying to second guess what the public wants or likes is kind of a fool's game.”

“I've found that luck is quite predictable.”

“I do nothing, granted. But I see the hours pass - which is better than trying to fill them.”

Source : Emile M. Cioran (1976). “The Trouble with Being Born”, Viking Books