Book Of Disquiet Quotes

Book Of Disquiet Quote of the day

Life is what we make of it. Travel is the traveler. What we see isn't what we see but what we are.

Everything interests me, but nothing holds me.

I bear the wounds of all the battles I avoided.

I wasn’t meant for reality, but life came and found me.

I've always rejected being understood. To be understood is to prostitute oneself. I prefer to be taken seriously for what I'm not, remaining humanly unknown, with naturalness and all due respect

To have opinions is to sell out to youself. To have no opinions is to exist. To have every opinion is to be a poet.

I'm sick of everything, and of the everythingness of everything.

...the painful intensity of my sensations, even when they're happy ones; the blissful intensity of my sensations, even when they're sad.

Art consists in making others feel what we feel.

Blessed are those who entrust their lives to no one.

Should I be what I think? But I think about being so many things!

But do we really live? To live without knowing what life is - is that living?

In this world we're all travelers on the same ship that has set sail from one unknown port en route to another equally foreign to us

I don't complain about the horror of life

What could anyone confess that would be worth anything or serve any useful purpose? What has happened to us has either happened to everyone or to us alone