The sun rises, the sun sets, but I wait for the dream;The nights are too long to be alone. Days pass without sweetness in sunlight that streams; The nights are too dark to be far from home. -- Nora Roberts

Through dangers untold and hardships unnumbered I have fought my way back to the castle beyond the goblin city, to take back the child that you have stolen. For my will is as strong as yours and my kingdom is as great. You have no power over me. -- "The Labyrinth"

What am I fighting for, if I win I lose my life; I need you more and more to break my will tonight. -- Sophie B. Hawkins

Beyond comfort of God or man. -- William Styron

To resemble the diabolical discomfort of being imprisoned in a fiercely overheated room. And because no breeze stirs the cauldron, because there is no escape from this smothering confinement, it is entirely natural that the victim begins to thing ceaselessly of oblivion. -- William Styron, "Darkness Visible"

When we have nothing left to give, there will be no reason for us to live.

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.

I feel the dread of this place overpowering me. I am in fear - in awful fear - and there is no escape for me; I am encompassed about with terror that I dare not think of. -- Bram Stoker, "Dracula"

To be abnormal is to be detested. -- Ambrose Pierce

I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearable unhappy. -- Kafka

Whenever I look inside myself I am afraid. -- C.E.M. Joad

Hell is oneself; Hell is alone, the others figure in it, Merely projections. There is nothing to escape from And nothing to escape to. One is always alone. -- T. S. Eliot

She's lying there dead, but she's still breathing. -- Lisa Loeb

Even imperfection itself may have its ideal or perfect state. -- T. DeQuincey

And I am still alive - what though, my damnation is eternal. A man who deliberately mutilates himself is truely damned ... I belive that I am in hell, therefore I am. -- Rimbaud

We are all in the gutter, but some of us look at the stars. -- Oscar Wilde

The secret of secrets is inside me again. -- Anna Ahamatova

If we open a quarrel between the past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future. -- Winston Churchhill

All are needed by each one; Nothing is fair or good alone. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

In the silence of our woods, you children will not be alone. -- Chief Seattle

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. -- Eleanor Roosevelt

It is easier to fight for principles than live up to them. -- Alfred Attle

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. -- Oscar Wilde

Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.

Tell me who admires you and loves you and I will tell you who you are. -- C.A. Sainte-Beauve

False face must hide what false heart doth know. -- William Shakespeare

Let us not look back in anger nor forward in fear, but around in awareness. -- James Thurber

From here there is no place that does not see you. You must change your life. -- Rainer Maria Rilkee

I'm giving you a longing look... every day I write the book. -- Elvis Costello

The childhood shows the main as the morning shows the day -- John Milton

I cherished hope it is true, but it vanished when my person reflected. -- Mary Shelly, "Frankenstein"

You don't live in a world alone. Your brother is here too. -- Albert Schweitzer

Why climb Mt. Everest? Because it's there. -- George Mallory

Tradgedies are about about the depths that call to certain men and insist they descend. -- Robert Bly

If we really want to live, we'd better start at once to try. -- Wystan Hugh Auden

The child shall become the father to the man. -- William Wordsworth

Far away, there in the sunshine, are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them and try to follow where they lead. -- Louisa May Alcott

I wanted to make a little spot ... where there was a break in the action, in the midst of this build-up of these ever growing terrible machines, I just wanted to remember that there is somewhere ... else. -- Trent Reznor

Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.

I am the needle in your vein, and I control you. I am the high you can't sustain, and I control you. I am the pusher I'm a whore, and I control you. I am the need you have for more, and I control you. I am the bullet in the gun, and I control you. I am the truth from which you run, and I control you. I am the silencing machine, and I control you. I am the end of all your dreams, and I control you. I take you where you want to go. -- Nine Inch Nails

For sweet, to feel is better than to know. And wisdom is a childless hertiage. One pulse of passion - youth's first fiery glow, are worth the hoarded proverbs the sage. Vex not thy soul with dead philosophy. Have we not lips to kiss with, and hearts to love ... and eyes to see. -- Oscar Wilde

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. -- Will Rogers

I opened up my heart and all I did was bleed. -- Bon Jovi

Empty, lonely memories of a world where everyone belongs to someone somewhere, everyone except me.

If my devils are to leave me, I am afraid my angels will take flight too. -- Rilke

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