February 2012
What are you doing here honey? You’re not old enough to know how bad life gets.”...
– The Virgin Suicides - Jeffrey Eugenides
Do you know what I need? To escape into the mountains, surrounded by tall trees,...
– Le’echappee
You feel your strength in the experience of pain. It’s all in how you carry it....
– Jim Morrison
Inconstancy grew too fatiguing;
And friends and friendship less intriguing;...
– Alexander Pushkin, from Eugene Onegin tr. James E. Falen
Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth...
– Sigmund Freud
You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.
– Maya Angelou
If the heart could think, it would stop beating.
– Fernando Pessoa
All the hardest, coldest people you meet were once as soft as water. And that’s...
– Unknown
Don’t let grief vex you. You should let it into your heart. Nor should you be...
– Wittgenstein, diary entry
I shall continue to exist. I may assume other disguises, other forms, but I...
– Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire
I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don’t know why, some people fill the...
– Anaïs Nin
The sadness will last forever.
– Suicide note of Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890)