Sakib

“Agonies are one of my changes of garments;
I do not ask the wounded person how he feels . . . . I myself become the wounded person,
My hurt turns livid upon me as I lean on a cane and observe.”
― Walt Whitman, Song of Myself

“Twere better than the dull reality
Of waking life to him whose heart shall be,
And hath been ever, on the chilly earth,
A chaos of deep passion from his birth!”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe

“When dealing with myself I am powerless.”
― Franz Kafka, Letters to Felice

“Life is will-to-live, will is a lack, lack is pain, all life is pain.”
― Carlo Michelstaedter, La melodia del giovane divino: Pensieri, racconti, critiche