/lit/ - Literature

Will I ever stop feeling cringe for myself when I tell people I'm a writer? Or is this the rest of my life. Hating myself but writing to make the ideas stop bugging me.

"In early youth, as we contemplate our coming life, we are like children in a theatre before the curtain is raised, sitting there in high spirits and eagerly waiting for the play to begin. It is a blessing that we do not know what is really going to happen. Could we foresee it, there are times when children might seem like innocent prisoners, condemned, not to death, but to life, and as yet all unconscious of what their sentence means." - Schopenhauer

"We are like lambs in a field, disporting themselves under the eye of the butcher, who chooses out first one and then another for his prey. So it is that in our good days we are all unconscious of thr evil that Fate may have presently in store for us--sickness, poverty, mutilation, loss of sight or reason." - Schopenhauer