Branislav

“But men live because they’re born, not by truth or by intelligence, and while the heart goes on beating it scatters and spreads their despair and finally destroys itself, losing its substance in patience and in work.”
― Andrei Platonov, Soul

“I bear the dungeon within me; within me is winter, ice, and despair; I have darkness in my soul.”
― Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

“It is extremely beautiful to belong to a woman, to give yourself. Don’t laugh if I sound foolish. But to love a woman, you see, to abandon yourself to her, to absorb her completely and feel absorbed by her, that is not what you call ‘being in love,’ which you mock a little. For me it is the road to life, the way toward the meaning of life.”
― Hermann Hesse, Narcissus and Goldmund

“It's always the same story. Naturally one doesn't get the woman one should have had; but if by some damned freak of reason and justice it ever does happen, then of course she dies immediately after.”
― Knut Hamsun, Victoria