Emerson

“Not just wicked, no, I never even managed to become anything: neither wicked nor good, neither a scoundrel nor an honest man, neither a hero nor an insect. And now I am living out my life in my corner, taunting myself with the spiteful and utterly futile consolation that it is even impossible for an intelligent man seriously to become anything, and only fools become something. Yes, sir, an intelligent man of the nineteenth century must be and is morally obliged to be primarily a characterless being; and a man of character, an active figure – primarily a limited being. This is my forty-year-old conviction. I am now”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground

“My life is quiet. There is little beside working and walking. I have no desire to see people, and I feel as though I am waiting for something new and strange which will burn the unburnt side of my soul.”
― Khalil Gibran

“I love like a leaky faucet or I love like a dam breaking. There is nothing in between.”
― Shinji Moon, The Anatomy of Being

“If pain can purify the heart, mine will be pure.”
― Mary Shelley, Mathilda Mary Shelley