sarah

“One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die. This life appears unbearable, another unattainable. One is no longer ashamed of wanting to die; one asks to be moved from the old cell, which one hates, to a new one, which one willl only in time come to hate. In this there is also a residue of belief that during the move the master will chance to come along the corridor, look at the prisoner and say: "This man is not to be locked up again, He is to come with me.”
― Franz Kafka, The Blue Octavo Notebooks

“Slowly, with many lost days, I come back to life. I try to follow Dr. Aurelius's advice, just going through the
motions, amazed when one finally has meaning again. I tell him my idea about the book, and a large box of
parchment sheets arrives on the next train from the Capitol”
― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

“Art is to console those who are broken by life.”
― Vincent van Gogh

“God is behind everything, but everything hides God. Things are black, creatures are opaque. To love a being is to render that being transparent.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables