act of one forced by horror to retreat

Did you ever have one of those nights where in every book you pick up you seem to find quotes that have hidden, or maybe not so hidden, meaning for you personally? I did. Three in a day and night.

If, as Kafka suggested, art is an ax with which to break up the frozen sea within us...
-Found on page 264 of The Lives Of The Muses, by Francine Prose.

The first was from Camus. "One never says a quarter of what one knows; otherwise, all will collapse. How little one says and they are already screaming."
-Found on page 437 of Truman Capote, by George Plimpton

Between the second and third I composed a whimsical little Haiku.

You must understand
I'm standing on paper walls
If I move I'll fall

And finally:

To deal with the world, as difficult as it may be, is to lay down the burden of self. To attempt to reorder the world, to recast all of its secrets into a personally accessible form, is psychosis-the act of one forced by horror to retreat.
-Found on page 62 of Jafsie and John Henry, by David Mamet