- 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
- "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
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