“I am very much aware of my own double self... The well-known one is very under control; everything is planned and very secure. The unknown one can be very unpleasant. I think this side is responsible for all the creative work — he is in touch with the child. He is not rational, he is impulsive and e…”— Ingmar Bergman, en.wikiquote.org
“You can never control who you fall in love with, even when you’re in the most sad, confused time of your life. You don’t fall in love with people because they’re fun. It just happens.”— Kirsten Dunst, vogue.it
“My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.”— Allen Ginsberg, amazon.com
“A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.”— Kurt Vonnegut, amazon.com
“The most hateful grief of all human griefs is this, to have knowledge of the truth but no power over the event.”— Herodotus, amazon.com
“Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this: to know so much and to have control over nothing.”— Herodotus, amazon.com
“Never apologize for how you feel. No one can control how they feel. The sun doesn’t apologize for being the sun. The rain doesn’t say sorry for falling. Feelings just are.”— Iain Thomas, amazon.com
“It’s just so out of control. Life, I mean. The way it flies off in all these different directions without your permission.”— Sara Zarr, amazon.com
“Letting go doesn’t mean that you don’t care about someone anymore. It’s just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself.”— Deborah Reber, amazon.com
“I don’t like to get angry. It doesn’t make me feel good. It is very human, but it’s also a loss of control, and I like to have that kind of control.”— Steve Carell, hollywoodreporter.com
“I could not control the world I was in, could not walk away from things or people or moments that hurt, but I took joy in the things that made me happy.”— Neil Gaiman, amazon.com