emily ☾

“And so shall I never again, my life, see those eyes of yours,
and has everlasting sleep sealed up your light of life?
I shall perish with you; thus, thus would it please me to go to the shades below.
Nonetheless I shall keep myself from yielding to a hastened death,
lest in that case no revenge should follow your death.”
― Thomas Kyd, The Spanish Tragedie - The Spanish Tragedy - First Edition Experience - First Quarto Q1

“You are blind now,' he said, 'so I will stay with you always.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Tales

“Oh, how I wish that I and my body could now be parted,
I wish my love were not here! - a curious prayer for a lover.
Now my sorrow is sapping my strength. My life is almost
over. Its candle is guttering out in the prime of my
manhood.
Death will be easy to bear, since dying will cure my
heartache.
Better indeed if the one I love could have lived longer,
but now, two soulmates in one, we shall face our ending
together.”
― Ovid, Metamorphoses

“Our bodies also are constantly changing and never
at rest;
what we were once and we are today, we shall not be
tomorrow.”
― Ovid, Metamorphoses