"Now I have neither happiness nor unhappiness.

Everything passes.

That is the one and only thing that I have thought resembled a truth in the society of human beings where I have dwelled up to now as in a burning hell.
Everything passes."

- No Longer Human, Dazai Osamu

"Whenever I was asked what I wanted my first impulse was to answer "Nothing." The thought went through my mind that it didn't make any difference, that nothing was going to make me happy."

"For someone like myself in whom the ability to trust others is so cracked and broken that I am wretchedly timid and am forever trying to read the expression on people's faces."

"all the women in me are tired."

وأنا الذي تركَ الوداعَ تعمُّدًا
‏ من ذا يطيقُ مرارةَ التوديعِ

"I want you this Saturday more than last and so it'll go on."

- Virginia Woolf

“I act and react, and suddenly I wonder, 'Where is the girl that I was last year? Two years ago? What would she think of me now?'”

— Sylvia Plath

"I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel"

-Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

"I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other."

- Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“I would never be part of anything. I would never really belong anywhere, and I knew it, and all my life would be the same, trying to belong, and failing. Always something would go wrong. I am a stranger and I always will be, and after all I didn’t really care.”

— Jean Rhys