115 Quotes by Sara Baume

But nowadays I feel guilty that I am granted the immunity of the artistically gifted, having never actually achieved anything to prove myself worthy.

I expected it would be exciting;  I expected that the freedom from routine was somehow greater than the freedom to determine your own routine. I wanted to get up in the morning and not know exactly what I was going to do that day. But now that I don't, it's terrifying.

It’s time to accept that I am average, and to stop making this acceptance of my averageness into a bereavement.

My mother says: 'People who suffer from anxiety are usually those with the most vivid imaginations.

Why is it only now that I can see how many ordinary things are actually grotesque?

I never went downstairs to join my housemates around the television. I cooked dinner later than everyone else and carried the plate up to my bedroom. I knew they must have thought me aloof, or a little bit eccentric, or maybe even unkind, but I didn't care. Once the kitchen door swung shut behind me, I was alone, and so everything was okay.

No matter how far I try to travel from people, people always appear. Either they follow me, or they're already there, and I followed them, unwittingly.

This is what the best of art does: uncovers an unrecoverable view of the world.

But I have never wanted to be perceived as chatty and bright. I have always wanted to be solemn and mysterious.