- "forgive me, grusha, for my love, for ruining you, too, with my love." — fyodor dostoevsky, the brothers karamazov
- "her laughter,' i reflected, 'must be the mere frenzy of despair." — charlotte bronte, villette
- "as dear to me as are the ruddy drops that visit my sad heart." — william shakespeare, julius caesar
- "was it a vision, or a waking dream, fled is that music: — do i wake or sleep?" — john keats, ode to a nightingale
- "your hand is cold, mine burns like fire." — fyodor dostoevsky, white nights
- "besides, with love one can live even without happiness. even in sorrow, life is sweet." — fyodor dostoevsky, notes from underground
- "if fortune be not ours today, it is because we brave her." — william shakespeare, antony and cleopatra
- "and we will know the future when it comes. greet it too early, weep too soon. it all comes clear in the light of day." — aeschylus, agamemnon
- "so farewell, hope; and with hope farewell, fear." — john milton, paradise lost
- "and if one day, why not eternal days?" — john milton, paradise lost
- "but all that is only the setting of life; the real thing is love." — leo tolstoy, war and peace
- "for you and i are past our dancing days." — william shakespeare, romeo and juliet
- "unlove's the heavenless hell." — e. e. cummings, unlove's the heavenless hell
- "what if a dawn of a doom of a dream bites this universe in two, peels forever out of his grave and sprinkles nowhere with me and you? — e. e. cummings, what if a much of a which of a wind
- "i exist. in thousands of agonies — i exist." — fyodor dostoevsky, the brother's karamazov
- "all things come to an end; all things are made equal. that's the long and short of it." — fyodor dostoevsky, the brothers karamazov
- "and all i loved, i loved alone." — edgar allan poe, alone
- "and i am out with lanterns, looking for myself." — emily dickinson, the letters of emily dickinson
- "and in my heart, there was a kind of fighting." — william shakespeare, hamlet
- "i was always ashamed to take. so i gave. it was not a virtue, it was a disguise." — anais nin, the diary of anais nin
- "it took many years of vomiting up all the filth i'd been taught about myself, and half-believed, before i was able to walk on the earth as though i had a right to be here." — james baldwin, collected essays
- "perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood." — george orwell, 1984
- "throw roses into the abyss and say: 'here is my thanks to the monster who didn't succeed in swallowing me alive." — friedrich nietzsche
- "there are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice." — f. scott fitzgerald, the sensible thing
- "so we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." – f. scott fitzgerald, the great gatsby
- "of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, 'it might have been." — kurt vonnegut, cat's cradle
- "i think you guys are going to have to come up with a lot of wonderful new lies, or people just aren't going to want to go on living." — kurt vonnegut, slaughterhouse-five
- "once drinking deep of that divinest anguish, how could i see the empty world again?" — emily bronte, remembrance
- "i have got lost; i am everything that has got lost." — friedrich nietzsche, thus spoke zarathustra
- "nothing's so beautiful as the memory of it." — charles wright, a journal of the year of the ox
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