"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."

-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


“When you’re happy, you enjoy the music but when you’re sad, you understand the lyrics.” - Frank Ocean


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