- sylvia plath - "to crawl between those black lines of print the way you crawl through a fence, and go sleep under that beautiful big green fig-tree"
- Nietzsche’s "Thus I spoke, more and more softly; for I was afraid of my own thoughts and the thoughts behind my thoughts."
- "Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move, Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love." - Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act II, Scene II.
- "Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind." - a midsummer night's dream, wiliam shakespeare; act i scene i
- "Your greatest sin is that you destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing" – crime and punishment
- "You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was Dostoevsky and Dickens who taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who ever had been alive. Only if we face these open wounds in ourselves can we understand them in other people. An artist is a sort of emotional or spiritual historian. His role is to make you realize the doom and glory of knowing who you are and what you are. He has to tell, because nobody else can tell, what it is like to be alive." – James Baldwin
- "I was a child and she was a child, In this kingdom by the sea, But we loved with a love that was more than love— I and my Annabel Lee— - Edgar Allan Poe, "Annabel Lee"
- "Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom" comes from 19th-century philosopher Søren Kierkegaard. He theorized that anxiety comes from both the fear of infinite possibilities/choices and awareness that one is responsible for charting their own life path. He used the example of a man standing at the edge of a cliff, simultaneously fearing and feeling drawn to the possibility of jumping to illustrate this concept.
- "And I pray one prayer -- I repeat it till my tongue stiffens -- Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest, as long as I am living! You said I killed you -- haunt me then! The murdered do haunt their murderers. I believe -- I know that ghosts have wandered on earth. Be with me always -- take any form -- drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh God! it is unutterable! I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!" ― Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights
- "I would rather die having spoken after my manner, than speak in your manner and live." Socrates, Apology, Crito And Phaedo
- "Alfredo, Alfredo, di questo core non puoi comprendere tutto l'amore…" → Alfredo, Alfredo, you can't understand all the love in this heart... - La Traviata
- "I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain." - Frank Herbert, Dune
- "There was much of the beautiful, much of the wanton, much of the bizarre, something of the terrible, and not a little of that which might have excited disgust." – Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death
- "We women have something of the mother in us that makes us rise above smaller matters when the mother-spirit is invoked; I felt this big, sorrowing man's head resting on me, as though it were that of the baby that some day may lie on my bosom, and I stroked his hair as though he were my own child. I never thought at the time how strange it all was." – Bram Stoker, Dracula
- "I cannot express it; but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is or should be an existence of yours beyond you. What were the use of my creation, if I were entirely contained here? My great miseries in this world have been Heathcliff's miseries, and I watched and felt each from the beginning: my great thought in living is himself. If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger: I should not seem a part of it." – Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
- Friedrich Nietzsche's "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star" (from Thus Spoke Zarathustra)
- "One should always be in love. That's the reason one should never marry." Oscar Wilde
- "I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops." Stephen Jay Gould, The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History
- "Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?" - Terry Pratchett
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