Inner Collapse Quotes

One never perishes through anybody but oneself.

Every day there comes a moment when a person lays his hands in his lap and all his busyness collapses like ashes. The work accomplished is, from the soul's point of view, entirely imaginary.

Something invisible snapped inside her.

I felt myself being invaded through and through, I crumbled, disintegrated, and only emptiness remained.

A great hope fell You heard no noise The ruin was within.

Men fall in private long before they fall in public.

You can't tell the story of the thousands of people whose lives were destroyed by Bernie Madoff because there are thousands of stories. What you can do is to start inside, and that's the picture that you do, which becomes like a Greek tragedy in that regard - that whole collapse.

We fall privately before we ever fall publicly.