“I must be cruel only to be kind; Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.” Shakespeare's Hamlet

“After all, the cherry blossom blooms every year, but does anyone find it the less lovely for that?” Sei Shōnagon

“A night of endless dreams, inconsequent and wild, is this my life; none more worth telling than the rest.” Murasaki Shikibu

“The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.” Virginia Woolf

“Embrace your solitude and love it. Endure the pain it causes, and try to sing out with it. For those near to you are distant...” Rainer Maria Rilke

“Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living. Talking is often a torment for me, and I need many days of silence to recover from the futility of words.” Carl Jung

“We must become so alone, so utterly alone, that we withdraw into our innermost self. It is a way of bitter suffering. But then our solitude is overcome, we are no longer alone, for we find that our innermost self is the spirit, that it is God, the indivisible. And suddenly we find ourselves in the midst of the world, yet undisturbed by its multiplicity, for our innermost soul we know ourselves to be one with all being.” Hermann Hesse

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.” Oscar Wilde

“Real poetry, is to lead a beautiful life. To live poetry is better than to write it.” Matsuo Basho

“In the air, there your root remains, there, in the air” Paul Celan

“I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.” Virginia Woolf

“Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.” Hermann Hesse