“I and me are always too deeply in conversation.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“They call you heartless; but you have a heart and I love you for being ashamed to show it.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“I love her for what she has dared to be, for her hardness, her cruelty, her egoism, her perverseness, her demoniac destructiveness.
She would crush me to ashes without hesitation.
She is a personality created to the limit.
I worship her courage to hurt, and I am willing to be sacrificed to it.
She will add the sum of me to her.
She will be June plus all that I contain.”
—Anaïs Nin, Henry and June
“La gente que vive profundamente no tiene miedo de la muerte.”
—Anais Nin
"Death is terrifying because it is so ordinary. It happens all the time." - Susan Cheever
“When I fall in love, it will be forever.”
—Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
"My life is sweet as saccharine" - NoFx
“I love you louder than your demons can scream.”
—Anonymous
“When people don’t have any curiosity about themselves,
that is always a bad sign.”
—Irvin D. Yalom, American Existential Psychiatrist
If you're going through hell, keep going.... Winston Churchill
Don't let a dark past, ruin a bright future.... Amy Gray
"Anything, no matter what. I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.” ~ Oscar Wilde
In Eternity this world will be Troy, I believe, and all that has passed here will be the epic of the universe, the ballad they sing in the streets. - Marilynne Robinson
“February is the shortest month of the year, so if you are having a miserable month, try to schedule it for February.”
—Lemony Snicket
“I didn't say I liked it... I said it fascinated me.
There is a great difference.”
—Orcar Wilde, “The Picture of Dorian Gray”
Lady Astor: "Winston, if I were your wife I'd put poison in your coffee."
Winston Churchill: "Nancy, if I were your husband I'd drink it."
“I'm missing you extremely, but I feel curiously happy and serene.
I want to do nothing but sit about dreamily,
thinking about you and about the great strangeness of everything,
and how good it is.”
—Iris Murdoch, from a letter to Wallace Robson written c. December 1951
“You're the kind of person I wanna drink morning coffee with.”
—Unknown
"Her kisses reminded me of lemon slices drizzled with sticky honey. Bitter, sweet and strangely irresistible."
—Michael Faudet