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Among your posts are some extraordinary truthful quotes. I appreciate your work.

Thank you immensely.

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Perhaps the easiest people to fall in love with are those about whom 
we know nothing.

Alain de Botton, On Love

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It was no longer her absence that wounded me, but my growing indifference to it. Forgetting, however calming, was also a reminder of infidelity to what I had at one time held so dear.

Alain de Botton, On Love

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It is expediency, expediency, expediency, mixed with stupidity, stupidity, stupidity.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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I have given up trying to recognize you in the surging wave of the next moment.

Rainer Maria Rilke - from You Who Never Arrived

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When we think about love and falling in love, one of the things I think we want to do is touch other people’s sadness. [..] what’s the point of having a relationship in which you’re cheerful all the time? You want to have a relationship where you can somehow unite your sadness with someone else’s sadness. Relationships are built around shared grief.

Alain de Botton, on Pessimism

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If you see Dostoevsky, tell him that I love him.

Leo Tolstoy in a letter to Strakhov, September 26, 1880

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I got bored to slander the universe.

E.M. Cioran

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I never think or argue, or whine to any one. I do not sleep. I strive for neither sea, nor moon, nor sun, Nor for the ship. I don’t perceive the warmth indoors or The greenery of grass. I don’t await the gift I wished for To come at last. Neither the morning nor the streetcar’s call Delight me as of late. I live oblivious of time and don’t recall The century and date. A little dancer on a slashed rope who’ll collapse, I fear, too soon, I am a shadow’s shade, a lunatic, perhaps, Of two dark moons.

Marina Tsvetaeva

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I was conscious of the gaping vacuum in my skull with every fibre of my being.

Knut Hamsun, Hunger

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Slowly, quite slowly, my thoughts collected.

Knut Hamsun, Hunger

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I felt myself like a creeping thing on the verge of destruction, gripped by ruin in the midst of a whole world ready for lethargic sleep.

Knut Hamsun, Hunger

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The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.

Goethe

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Talents are best nurtured in solitude, but character is the best formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe

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The strength required to resist an impulse is most seriously diseased under the influence of weakness–hence one never reacts more promptly and more blindly than when one should not react at all.

Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will to Power

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The Stoic philosophical life consists essentially in mastering one’s inner discourse.

Pierre Hadot, The Inner Citadel: The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius

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The maturity of man—that means, to have reacquired the seriousness that one had as a child at play.

Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil