Helena

“The greatness of a mind is determined by the depth of its suffering.”
― Hayao Miyazaki, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, Vol. 1

“I tell you: one must still have chaos in oneself to give birth to a dancing star. I tell you: you still have chaos in yourselves.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“We find beauty not in the thing itself but in the patterns of shadows, the light and the darkness, that one thing against another creates.”
― Jun'ichirō Tanizaki

“It is a painful thing
To look at your own trouble and know
That you yourself and no one else has made it”
― Sophocles, Ajax