"I am a fool with a heart but no brains, and you are a fool with brains but no heart; and we're both unhappy, and we both suffer."

"It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise."

"Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering."

"Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky



"You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love."

"I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself."

"Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old."

“Come with me, Milena. We are going to love each other without scruples or fear or restraint. Because the world is ending tomorrow.”

“I am not actually tired, but numb and heavy, and can’t find the right words. All I can say is: Stay with me, don’t leave me.”

-Franz Kafka

“In man's struggle against the world, bet on the world.” - Franz Kafka


"I am a book I neither wrote nor read." - Delmore Schwartz


“Life is an intoxication. The only sober man is the melancholiac, who, disenchanted, looks at life, sees it as it really is, and cuts his throat.” - W.N.P. Barbellion


“To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as dead baby, the world itself is a bad dream.” - Sylvia Plath


“There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.” - Laurell K. Hamilton


“So it’s true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.” - E.A. Bucchianeri


“It hurts to leave a light on for nobody.” - Graham Foust


“Life is too short to love you alone in one, I promise to look for you in the next life” - William Shakespeare


“You know, a heart can be broken, but it keeps on beating, just the same.” - Fannie Flagg