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“So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“Geçmiş zamandan sıyrılıp,şimdiki zamana bir yerinden tutunmak istedi.”
― Oğuz Atay, Tehlikeli Oyunlar

“Yalnız yaşayan insanların, kendi ilerinde başlayıp biten eğlenceleri vardır.”
― Oğuz Atay, Korkuyu Beklerken

“Korktum. Çünkü 'demek ki' diyemiyeceğim bir yerlere gelmiştim.”
― Oğuz Atay

“This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.”
― T.S. Eliot

“Do I dare
Disturb the universe?
In a minute there is time
For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.”
― T.S. Eliot

“What is hell? Hell is oneself.
Hell is alone, the other figures in it
Merely projections. There is nothing to escape from
And nothing to escape to. One is always alone.”
― T.S. Eliot

“It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“Çelişki seni öldürür. Çelişki işkencedir. Çelişki buz tutmuş bir göldür. Çelişki buz tutmuş gölün çatladığı andır. Çelişki, göldeki çatlağa saplanıp donmaya başlamandır. Çelişki, yardım istemek için açtığın ağzına dolan sudur.”
― Hakan Günday, Azil

“We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.”
― D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover

“It's no good trying to get rid of your own aloneness. You've got to stick to it all your life. Only at times, at times, the gap will be filled in. At times! But you have to wait for the times. Accept your own aloneness and stick to it, all your life. And then accept the times when the gap is filled in, when they come. But they've got to come. You can't force them.”
― D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover

“But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.”
― D.H. Lawrence, Women in Love

“I am the beast at the end of the rope.”
― Sarah Kane

“I dread the loss of her I've never touched
love keeps me a slave in a cage of tears
I gnaw my tongue with which to her I can never speak
I miss a woman who was never born
I kiss a woman across the years that say we shall never meet

Everything passes
Everything perishes
Everything palls

my thought walks away with a killing smile
leaving discordant anxiety
which roars in my soul


No hope No hope No hope No hope No hope No hope No hope”
― Sarah Kane, 4.48 Psychosis

“It is myself I have never met, whose face is pasted on the underside of my mind.”
― Sarah Kane, 4.48 Psychosis

“Embrace beautiful lies - the chronic insanity of the sane”
― Sarah Kane, 4.48 Psychosis

“Doğup büyüdüğü yere ait değil insan... Acı çektiği ya da çok mutlu olduğu yere de ait değil... İnsan, olmak isteyip de olamadığı yere ait... Şey gibi bir his işte bu; çok, çok susamak gibi... Siz anlamazsınız bu hissi, bir tek o anlar...”
― Ali Lidar, Tesirsiz Parçalar

“Çok mutsuz sonların birinci şartı çok mutlu başlangıçlardır.”
― Hakan Günday, Piç

“Çünkü insan kendi hayatının içinde kaybolmuşken nadiren dikkat eder sabah kahvaltısında kac dilim ekmek yediğine”
― Hakan Günday, Zargana

“Herkesin öyle bir hikâyesi yok muydu? Başlayıp da bitiremediği. Çünkü kimsenin dinlemediği... İçine atmak, diye bir şey varken, anlatmaya ne gerek vardı?”
― Hakan Günday, Az

“How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. Let me sit here for ever with bare things, this coffee cup, this knife, this fork, things in themselves, myself being myself.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

“I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

“When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness—I am nothing.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

“And the poem, I think, is only your voice speaking.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

“To let oneself be carried on passively is unthinkable.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

“The moment was all; the moment was enough.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

“She has no body as others have. People have no meaning to her. She has no answer for them. Her mind steps into emptiness, alone.”
― Virginia Woolf , The Waves

“I do not know myself sometimes, or how to measure and name and count out the grains that make me what I am.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

“They will love me for that which destroys me
the sword in my dreams
the dust of my thoughts
the sickness that breeds in the folds of my mind”
― Sarah Kane, 4.48 Psychosis

“I've never in my life had a problem giving another person what they
want. But no one's ever been able to do that for me. No one touches me,
no one gets near me. But now you've touched me somewhere so fucking
deep I can't believe and I can't be that for you. Because I can't find you.”
― Sarah Kane, 4.48 Psychosis