A pessimist is someone who is waiting for it to rain. But I’m already soaked to the skin.
— Leonard Cohen
If I knew for certain that all my rocks would be changed into gold, the more and the larger rocks I had, the more pleased I would be.
— Master Eckhart
Everyone carries a room about inside him. This fact can even be proved by means of the sense of hearing. If someone walks fast and one pricks up one's ears and listens, say in the night, when everything round about is quiet, one hears, for instance, the rattling of a mirror not quite firmly fastened to the wall.
– Kafka
Notes from a Room