Irene Thy

“She could just distinguish his features, as he slept the perfect sleep. In this darkness, she seemed to see him so distinctly. But he was far off, in another world. Ah, she could shriek with torment, he was so far off, and perfected, in another world. She seemed to look at him as at a pebble far away under clear dark water. And here was she, left with all the anguish of consciousness, whilst he was sunk deep into the other element of mindless, remote, living shadow-gleam. He was beautiful, far-off, and perfected. They would never be together. Ah, this awful, inhuman distance which would always be interposed between her and the other being! There was nothing to do but to lie still and endure. She felt an overwhelming tenderness for him, and a dark, under-stirring of jealous hatred, that he should lie so perfect and immune, in an other-world, whilst she was tormented with violent wakefulness, cast out in the outer darkness.”
― D.H. Lawrence, Women in Love

“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

“Dine augo dei opnar mitt hjarta
og seier at livet finst til
Dine augo dei opnar mitt hjarta
og gjer at eg nok ein gong vil”
― Jon Fosse

“Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.”
― Marcel Proust