Thymo

“Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.”
― Oscar Wilde

“I don't know anything with certainty, but seeing the stars makes me dream.”
― Vincent Van Gogh

“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
― Albert Camus