Kainzow

“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

“But he spoke English better than I, he having mastered it, whereas I was only born to its careless use.”
― Talbot Mundy, Hira Singh: When India Came to Fight in Flanders. A True History of the Indian Army Under British Rule.

“Be a rainbow in somebody else's cloud.”
― Maya Angelou

“We all complete. Maybe none of us really understand what we've lived through, or feel we've had enough time.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go