The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets successfully through many a bad night. Beyond Good and Evil

It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it. East Of Eden

I often ardently perceived a longing for relief, the desire for a proper confession, but I also felt in advance that I would be unable to tell and explain things correctly to either my father or mother. I knew that they would receive my words amicably, they would carefully spare my feelings, in fact, pity me, but they wouldn’t fully understand me, and the whole thing would be looked on as a sort of minor infraction, whereas it was actually my fate. Demian

There’s a certain comfort that comes with knowing how you fit in the world. Anything that shakes up that comfort – even if it could potentially make your life better- is inherently scary. The Subtle Art Of Not Giving A F*Ck