"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."

“Your hand is cold, mine burns like fire. How blind you are, Nastenka!”

- 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