Maria Maria

“I have no friend, Margaret: when I am glowing with the enthusiasm of success, there will be none to participate my joy; if I am assailed by disappointment, no one will endeavour to sustain me in dejection. I shall commit my thoughts to paper, it is true; but that is a poor medium for the communication of feeling. I desire the company of a man who could sympathize with me, whose eyes would reply to mine. You may deem me romantic, my dear sister, but I bitterly feel the want of a friend.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“The son [...] had set himself to the serious study of the great artistocratic art of doing absolutely nothing.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“I have no terror of death. It is the coming of death that terrifies me. Its monstrous wings seem to wheel in the leaden air around me.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“A morte conhece tudo a nosso respeito, e talvez por isso seja triste. Se é certo que nunca sorri, é só porque lhe faltam os lábios, e esta lição anatômica nos diz que, ao contrário do que os vivos julgam, o sorriso não é uma questão de dentes.”
― José Saramago, Death with Interruptions