The moon was shining. I thought, "I've finally come to the very depths of this miserable world!"
Takuboku Ishikawa, from “Romaji Diary & Sad Toys,” published c. 1985
Takuboku Ishikawa, from “Romaji Diary & Sad Toys,” published c. 1985
"But it was not a simple case of going out for a couple of beers and going home. That is not my story. I took it to excess. I crossed a line and I couldn’t get back. I had long periods of sobriety when I was focusing on football but I always had a drink at the end of it. I would just fall off the wagon. It was like a running joke. "
- Tony Adams
- Tony Adams
Somebody inside of me has always tried, with all his strength, to be nobody.”
— Albert Camus, from a notebook entry featured in Notebooks (1951-1959)
— Albert Camus, from a notebook entry featured in Notebooks (1951-1959)
And how much better to die in all the happy period of undisillusioned youth, to go out in a blaze of light, than to have your body worn out and old and illusions shattered.
Ernest Hemingway - Letter to his family (18 October 1918)
Ernest Hemingway - Letter to his family (18 October 1918)