Sandro Valery Gvaramia

“What is it with me? Am I absolutely nobody, but merely inordinately vain? I do not know…. But I am most fearfully unhappy. That is all. I am so unhappy that I wish I was dead—yet I should be mad to die when I have not yet lived at all.”
― Katherine Mansfield

“Isn't life,' she stammered, 'isn't life--' But what life was she couldn't explain. No matter. He quite understood.

'Isn't it, darling?' said Laurie.”
― Katherine Mansfield, The Garden Party and Other Stories

“Come back. Even as a shadow, even as a dream.”
― Euripides

“Whether we fall by ambition, blood or lust
Like diamonds, we are cut with our own dust”
― John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi