“He softens me in ways I could not believe anyone ever could.
Storms run through my veins whenever he lays his deep brown eyes on me.
Untill him, I was burried under the misunderstanding that I am hard to love but he makes it seem so easy.
He does it so effortlessly.”
“is a death wish between you and the you you're becoming. I will never admit to him that his love feels like a tease from God. A gift I only deserve as prelude to punishment.”
“the blood clings to you, i've learned. all those little choices, and all of those lives. you cannot quantify the guilt; and no matter how the years yawn on, you cannot wash it off. it clings to you. it clings.”
“And with the idea that they were all excitedly following his efforts, he bit on the key with all his strength, paying no attention to the pain he was causing himself.”
- Kafka, The Metamorphosis
“There is only one really serious philosophical question, and that is suicide.”
“But I reject suicide. The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart.”
- Camus
Dostoevsky: “What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.”
Kafka: “Love is… that you are the knife which I turn inside myself.”
Camus: “But you know, it’s not love if you don’t doubt it.”
Camus: “In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
Kafka: “There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe… but not for us.”
Nietzsche: “Hope, in reality, is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.”
Nietzsche: “God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him.”
Dostoevsky: “If God does not exist, everything is permitted.”
Kafka: “The Messiah will come only when he is no longer necessary.”
“To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.”
-Nietzsche
“I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.”
- Kafka
“I stopped reaching out. I got tired of explaining why I needed love like air.”
- Kafka
“I kept giving love like oxygen, hoping someone would breathe me back.”
-Nietzsche