“i am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.” nietzsche

“there is immeasurably more left inside than what comes out in words.” fyodor dostoevsky

“suddenly, i don’t know what to say. it happens often to me. i know what i want to say, i think about whether it is what i mean, but when the moment comes to speak, i can’t say it." anna karina

“my real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life.” - hermann hesse

"i think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is." vladimir nabokov

"the stars know everything, so we try to read their minds. as distant as they are, we choose to whisper in their presence.” charles simic

"we’re both looking at the same moon, in the same world. we’re connected to reality by the same line. all i have to do is quietly draw it towards me." haruki murakami

"a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world." oscar wilde