Domonique

“Toska - noun /ˈtō-skə/ - Russian word roughly translated as sadness, melancholia, lugubriousness.

"No single word in English renders all the shades of toska. At its deepest and most painful, it is a sensation of great spiritual anguish, often without any specific cause. At less morbid levels it is a dull ache of the soul, a longing with nothing to long for, a sick pining, a vague restlessness, mental throes, yearning. In particular cases it may be the desire for somebody of something specific, nostalgia, love-sickness. At the lowest level it grades into ennui, boredom.”
― Vladimir Nabokov

“Cowardice is the most terrible of vices.”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

“I was a creature so small, trapped in some crevice of an indifferent universe.”
― Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties: Stories

“Virtue and genuine graces in themselves speak what no words can utter.”
― William Shakespeare