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“A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.”
― Franz Kafka

“Ehkäpä kirjoitan unohtaakseni voimattoman raivon, joka valtaa mieleni aina kun muistan, että olen yksi meistä. Yksi tarpeettomista syöpäläisistä, jotka viipertävät edestakaisin erittäen peräpäästään tahmeaa rihmaa elämänsä kokoiseen verkkoon.”
― Asko Sahlberg, Pimeän ääni

“If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't.”
― Lyall Watson

“Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.”
― Edgar Allen Poe

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“I've lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.”
― Mark Twain

“Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.”
― Mark Twain

“Of all God's creatures, there is only one that cannot be made slave of the leash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve the man, but it would deteriorate the cat.”
― Mark Twain

“Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.”
― Mark Twain

“What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books. ”
― Sigmund Freud

“The woman who refuses to see her sexual organs as mere wood chips, designed to make the man's life more comfortable, is in danger of becoming a lesbian--an active, phallic woman, an intellectual virago with a fire of her own .... The lesbian body is a particularly pernicious and depraved version of the female body in general; it is susceptible to auto-eroticism, clitoral pleasure and self-actualization.”
― Sigmund Freud

“I was not a lovable child, and I'd grown into a deeply unlovable adult. Draw a picture of my soul, and it'd be a scribble with fangs.”
― Gillian Flynn, Dark Places

“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“The worm that destroys you is the temptation to agree with your critics, to get their approval.”
― Thomas Harris, Hannibal

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“There's no such things as survival of the fittest. Survival of the most adequate, maybe. It doesn't matter whether a solution's optimal. All that matters is whether it beats the alternative.”
― Peter Watts, Blindsight

“It’s really kind ofâ€� well, beautiful, in a way. Even the monsters, once you get to know ‘em. We’re all beautiful.”
― Peter Watts, Starfish

“What's the survival value of obsessing on a sunset?”
― Peter Watts, Blindsight

“Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!”
― Bram Stoker

“I will not let you go into the unknown alone.”
― Bram Stoker

“No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be.”
― Jonathan Harker's Journal, Bram Stoker, Dracula

“Denn die Todten reiten Schnell. (For the dead travel fast.)”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“Ah, it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all; and if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to explain.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, Profiles of the Future: An Inquiry into the Limits of the Possible

“Before you become too entranced with gorgeous gadgets and mesmerizing video displays, let me remind you that information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, and wisdom is not foresight. Each grows out of the other, and we need them all.”
― Arthur C. Clarke

“Magic's just science that we don't understand yet.”
― Arthur C. Clarke

“In my life I have found two things of priceless worth - learning and loving. Nothing else - not fame, not power, not achievement for its own sake - can possible have the same lasting value. For when your life is over, if you can say 'I have learned' and 'I have loved,' you will also be able to say 'I have been happy.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, Rama II

“When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.”
― Arthur C. Clarke

“What a magnificent body, how I should like to see it on the dissecting table.”
― Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons