Book Of Disquiet Quotes

Life is what we make of it. Travel is the traveler. What we see isn't what we see but what we are.

Everything interests me, but nothing holds me.

I bear the wounds of all the battles I avoided.

I wasn’t meant for reality, but life came and found me.

I've always rejected being understood. To be understood is to prostitute oneself. I prefer to be taken seriously for what I'm not, remaining humanly unknown, with naturalness and all due respect

To have opinions is to sell out to youself. To have no opinions is to exist. To have every opinion is to be a poet.

...the painful intensity of my sensations, even when they're happy ones; the blissful intensity of my sensations, even when they're sad.

I'm sick of everything, and of the everythingness of everything.

Art consists in making others feel what we feel.

Ah, it's my longing for whom I might have been that distracts and torments me!

Blessed are those who entrust their lives to no one.

But do we really live? To live without knowing what life is - is that living?

Should I be what I think? But I think about being so many things!