Loris

“At that moment, beauty itself struck me as a kind of painful melancholy.”
― Arthur Golden

“Life is for the living.
Death is for the dead.
Let life be like music.
And death a note unsaid.”
― Langston Hughes, The Collected Poems

“I had already found that it was not good to be alone, and so made companionship with what there was around me, sometimes with the universe and sometimes with my own insignificant self; but my books were always my friends, let fail all else.”
― Joshua Slocum, Sailing Alone around the World

“I was alone again in the unquiet darkness.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby