quotes

"It's that essence, that essential quality life that gives us a sense of aliveness. [...] It's far beyond anything we can box up and label in any satisfactory way."
― Mukti Gray on the unknowable nature of the essential self



"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage."
—Anaïs Nin

The only thing that scares me is that I will die tomorrow without having known myself.
— Blind Owl by Sadeq Hedayat
— Blind Owl by Sadeq Hedayat