Mina Herz

“If people could see into my heart, I should almost feel ashamed - all there is cold, cold as ice.”
― Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

“,,The danger that arises to someone when a love
object is “lost”—through death, or betrayal, or disappointment—is
not primarily the loss of that particular person or institution or ideal;
the danger is to the person’s sense of himself, which depends on his
sense of an ongoing internal attachment to his loved object.”
― Thierry Bokanowski, On Freud's "Mourning and Melancholia"

“Everyone takes his revenge on the world. My revenge consists in bearing my distress and anguish enclosed deeply within me while my laughter entertains everyone. If I see someone suffer I give him my sympathy, console him as best I can, and listen to him calmly when he assures me that I am fortunate. If I can only keep this up until the day I die I shall have had my revenge.”
― Søren Kierkegaard, Papers and Journals: A Selection

“Nothing is easier than to sit, like Father Matthew,[17] in the seat of judgement and condemn drunkenness, while you are yourself intoxicated with sobriety;”
― Aleksandr Herzen, The Memoirs of Alexander Herzen, Parts I and II: Enriched edition. Revolutionary Insight: A Memoir of 19th-Century Russia