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#1

“It’s how I fill the time when nothing’s happening. Thinking too much, flirting with melancholy.”
― Tim Winton, Breath

tags: idleness, loneliness, melancholy, sadness, time

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#2

“Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: desire, love

951 likes

#3

“Love insists the loved loves back”
― Dante Alighieri

tags: inferno

356 likes

#4

“Because your question searches for deep meaning,
I shall explain in simple words”
― Dante Alighieri, Inferno

184 likes

#5

“There is no greater sorrow then to recall our times of joy in wretchedness.”
― Dante Alighieri, Inferno

410 likes

#6

“At grief so deep the tongue must wag in vain; the language of our sense and memory lacks the vocabulary of such pain.”
― Dante Alighieri, Inferno

124 likes

#7

“Love, which absolves no one beloved from loving,
seized me so strongly with his charm that,
as you see, it has not left me yet.

Love brought us to one death.”
― Dante Alighieri, Inferno

70 likes

#8

“Do not be afraid; our fate
Cannot be taken from us; it is a gift.”
― Dante Alighieri, Inferno

tags: faith, fate, fear

3289 likes

#9

“My thoughts were full of other things When I wandered off the path.”
― Dante Alighieri, Inferno

45 likes

#10

“It is necessity and not pleasure that compels us.
[Italian: Necessita c'induce, e non diletto.]”
― Dante Alighieri, Inferno

tags: compulsion, necessity, pleasure

39 likes

#11

“There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.”
― Homer, The Odyssey

tags: 11-379, sleep

659 likes

#12

“A man who has been through bitter experiences and travelled far enjoys even his sufferings after a time”
― Homer, The Odyssey

591 likes

#13

“Sleep, delicious and profound, the very counterfeit of death”
― Homer, The Odyssey

277 likes

#14

“My name is Nobody.”
― Homer, The Odyssey

244 likes

#15

“And empty words are evil.”
― Homer, The Odyssey

tags: emotions, empty, evil, feelings, homer, humor, inspiration, love, romance, sadness, words

200 likes

#16

“Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.”
― Homer, The Iliad

tags: heart, homer, the-iliad

918 likes

#17

“Even a fool learns something once it hits him.”
― Homer, Iliad

404 likes

#18

“The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.”
― Dante Alighieri

tags: afterlife, attributed-no-source, hell, morality, neutrality

2202 likes

#19

“The devil is not as black as he is painted.”
― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso

550 likes

#20

“They yearn for what they fear for.”
― Dante Alighieri, Inferno

tags: 123, canto-iii, inferno

363 likes

#21

“As one who sees in dreams and wakes to find the emotional impression of his vision still powerful while its parts fade from his mind - Just such am I, having lost nearly all the vision itself, while in my heart I feel the sweetness of it yet distill and fall.”
― Dante Alighieri, Paradise

80 likes

#22

“Open your mind to what I shall disclose, and hold it fast within you; he who hears, but does not hold what he has heard, learns nothing.”
― Dante Alighieri, Paradise

50 likes

#23

“As little flowers, which the chill of night has bent and huddled, when the white sun strikes, grow straight and open fully on their stems, so did I, too, with my exhausted force.”
― Dante Alighieri, Inferno

123 likes

#24

“The Love that moves the sun and the other stars.”
― Dante Alighieri, Paradise

tags: love, stars, sun

101 likes

#25

“Now you know how much my love for you
burns deep in me
when I forget about our emptiness,
and deal with shadows as with solid things.”
― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri, Volume 2: Purgatorio

77 likes

#26

“I did not die, and yet I lost life’s breath”
― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso

179 likes

#27

“Here pity only lives when it is dead - Virgil”
― Dante Alighieri, Inferno

53 likes

#28

“It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot

1329 likes

#29

“A fool with a heart and no sense is just as unhappy as a fool with sense and no heart.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

392 likes

#30

“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.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

tags: fool, fyodor-dostoevsky, heart

669 likes

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