Ghazale

“Nobody knows you.
You don't know yourself.
And I, who am half in love with you,
What am I in love with?
My own imaginings?”
― D.H. Lawrence, The Complete Poems of D.H. Lawrence

“I felt myself in a solitude so frightful that I contemplated suicide. What held me back was the idea that no one, absolutely no one, would be moved by my death, that I would be even more alone in death than in life.”
― Jean Paul Sartre, Nausea

“Your heart is the size of an ocean. Go find yourself in its hidden depths.”
― Rumi

“this life
has been
a landscape
of pain

and still,
flowers
bloom in it.”
― Sanober Khan, A Thousand Flamingos