Eligia

“A Strange melancholy pervades me to which I hesitate to give the grave and beautiful name of sorrow. The idea of sorrow has always appealed to me but now I am almost ashamed of its complete egoism. I have known boredom, regret, and occasionally remorse, but never sorrow. Today it envelops me like a silken web, enervating and soft, and sets me apart from everybody else.”
― Françoise Sagan, Bonjour tristesse

“If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.”
― Hermann Hesse, Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

“If I were quiet, I might be able to concentrate on getting the fragments of my life together. But there are noises inside my head from all those departures. Although the bumps and sores are fading, my skin burns and stings. Most of the time I rest on my unmade bed. Why must the phone ring? I am startled, nearly jump to the ceiling whenever it does. I don't want to speak to anyone for a long time. Yet I feel so alone.”
― Elaine Kraf, The Princess of 72nd Street

“I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself.”
― Hermann Hesse, Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend