Tilda Swinton // "Loneliness is the deal. Loneliness is the last great taboo. If we don't accept loneliness, then capitalism wins...because capitalism is all about trying to convince people that you can distract yourself, that you can make it better. And it ain't true."
Simone de Beauvoir // "Every morning, even before I open my eyes, I know I am in my bedroom and my bed. But...sometimes I wake up with a feeling of childish amazement: why am I myself? What astonishes me...is the fact of finding myself here, and at this moment, deep in this life and not in any other. What stroke of chance has brought this about?"
Andrew Carnegie // "As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do."
Anne Frank // "As I’ve told you many times, I’m split in two. One side contains my exuberant cheerfulness, my flippancy, my joy in life and, above all, my ability to appreciate the lighter side of things... This side of me is usually lying in wait to ambush the other one, which is much purer, deeper and finer. No one knows Anne’s better side... My lighter, more superficial side will...always win. You can’t imagine how often I’ve tried to push away this Anne...to beat her down, hide her. But it doesn’t work, and I know why. I’m afraid that people who know me as I usually am will...mock me, think I’m ridiculous and sentimental and not take me seriously. I’m used to not being taken seriously, but only the "lighthearted" Anne is used to it and can put up with it; the "deeper" Anne is too weak... I know exactly how I’d like to be, how I am…on the inside. But unfortunately I’m only like that with myself... I’m guided by the pure Anne within, but on the outside I’m nothing but a frolicsome little goat tugging at its tether... I’m trying very hard to change myself, but...I’m always up against a more powerful enemy... if I’m quiet and serious, everyone thinks I’m putting on a new act and I have to save myself with a joke, and then...I get cross, then sad, and finally end up turning my heart inside out, the bad part on the outside and the good part on the inside, and keep trying to find a way to become what I’d like to be and what I could be if…if only there were no other people in the world."
Charles Bukowski // "Every person, I suppose, has their eccentricities but in an effort to be normal in the world's eye they overcome them and therefore destroy their special calling. I have kept mine and I do believe that they have lent generously to my existence."
Ludovico Einaudi // "I like to be overwhelmed by work that I do. I like to be emotional...and it's only when I get to this that I really enjoy the moment."
Amy Poehler // "To some people, not caring is supposed to be cool, commenting is more interesting than doing, and everything is judged and then disposed of in, like, five minutes. I'm not interested in those kinds of people. I like the person who commits and goes all in and takes big swings and then maybe fails or looks stupid."
Alan Moore // "I hope that the world turns and that things get better. But what I hope most of all is that you understand what I mean when I tell you that even though I do not know you, and even though I may never meet you, laugh with you, cry with you, or kiss you. I love you. With all my heart, I love you."
James Dean // "I want to grow away from the pathetic little world we exist in. I want to leave it all behind, all the petty thoughts about unimportant little things, things that’ll be forgotten a hundred years from now anyway. There’s a level somewhere where everything is solid and important. I’m going to try to reach up there and find a place I know is pretty close to perfect, a place where this whole messy world should be, could be, if it’d just take the time to learn."
Diane von Furstenberg // "You're always with yourself, so you might as well enjoy the company."
John Keats // "Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know."
Marco Pierre White // "I was being judged by people who had less knowledge than me, so what was it truly worth?"