“Serenity is when you get above all this, when it doesn't matter what they think, say or want, but when you do as you are.” ― Henry Miller

"We're all going to die, all of us. What a circus! That alone should make us love each other, but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by life's trivialities; we are eaten up by nothing." ― Charles Bukowski

“My dear, I have nothing to say.
my heart burns like the evening sky.” ― Sanober Khan

“Three things can not hide for long: the Moon, the Sun and the Truth.” ― Gautama Buddha

“...she took her hand and raised her brush. For a moment it stayed trembling in a painful but exciting ecstasy in the air. Where to begin?--that was the question at what point to make the first mark? One line placed on the canvas committed her to innumerable risks, to frequent and irrevocable decisions.” ― Virginia Woolf

“Our desires cut across one another, and in this confused existence it is rare for happiness to coincide with the desire that clamoured for it.” ― Marcel Proust 

“If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days.” ― Sylvia Platt

“Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering.” ― Paulo Coelho

“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.” ― William Shakespeare

“I am a broken person. And I know exactly where my cracks are and how deep they run. I don't pretend to not be a broken person and therein lies the big difference. Because the truth is, we are all broken in places, but it is those who know exactly where and how they are broken, who also know exactly where and how they are whole!” ― C. JoyBell C.

“No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche

"When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be."
― Lao Tzu

“A trap is only a trap if you don't know about it. If you know about it, it's a challenge.” ― China Miéville

“From this new and intimate perspective, she learned a simple, obvious thing she had always known, and everyone knew; that a person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn, not easily mended.” ― Ian McEwan

“I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.” ― Jack Kerouac

"I don’t know how you are so familiar to me—or why it feels less like I am getting to know you and more as though I am remembering who you are. How every smile, every whisper brings me closer to the impossible conclusion that I have known you before, I have loved you before—in another time, a different place, some other existence.” 
― Lang Leav

“She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous strands, appreciating its subtle nuances. She was a prism through which sadness could be divided into its infinite spectrum.” ― Jonathan Safran Foer

“There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, 'Consume me'.” ― Virginia Woolf

“Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You change direction but the sandstorm chases you. You turn again, but the storm adjusts. Over and over you play this out, like some ominous dance with death just before dawn. Why? Because this storm isn't something that blew in from far away, something that has nothing to do with you. This storm is you. Something inside of you. So all you can do is give in to it, step right inside the storm, closing your eyes and plugging up your ears so the sand doesn't get in, and walk through it, step by step. There's no sun there, no moon, no direction, no sense of time. Just fine white sand swirling up into the sky like pulverized bones. That's the kind of sandstorm you need to imagine." ― Haruki Murakami

“How many times can our emotions be tied to someone else's - be pulled and stretched and twisted - before they snap? Before they can never be mended again?” ― Stephanie Perkins

"It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for. " ― Marcel Proust 

"if I look at the crystal moon, at the red branch of the slow autumn at my window, if I touch near the fire the impalpable ash or the wrinkled body of the log, everything carries me to you."
— Pablo Neruda

“what is stronger than the human heart which shatters over and over and still lives” ― Rupi Kaur

“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.” ― Alfred Tennyson

“I watched her die many times. In my way, not in hers. In sunlight, in shadow, by moonlight, by candlelight. In the long afternoons when the house was empty. Only the sun was there to keep us company. We shut him out. And why not? Very soon she was as eager for what's called loving as I was - more lost and drowned afterwards.” ― Jean Rhys

“Was it hard?" I ask. Letting go?"
Not as hard as holding on to something that wasn't real.” ― Lisa Schroeder

“No one can tell what goes on in between the person you were and the person you become. No one can chart that blue and lonely section of hell. There are no maps of the change. You just come out the other side.

Or you don't.” ― Stephen King, The Stand

“It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.” ― Virginia Woolf

“You are not controlling the storm, and you are not lost in it. You are the storm.” ― Sam Harris

"I am free and that is why I am lost." ― Franz Kafka 

“Study me as much as you like, you will not know me, for I differ in a hundred ways from what you see me to be. Put yourself behind my eyes and see me as I see myself, for I have chosen to dwell in a place you cannot see.” ― Jalaluddin Rumi 

“Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs, Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers’ eyes, Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers’ tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, A choking gall and a preserving sweet.” 

― William Shakespeare

“I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; 
I lift my eyes and all is born again.” ― Sylvia Plath

“Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused.” ― Paulo Coelho

“Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.” ― Dylan Thomas

"Everything you can imagine is real." ~ Pablo Picasso 

“The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?” ― Edgar Allan Poe

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