"Life begins, on the other side of despair."

-Sartre

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"وفي رحيل النور
وُلِدَ نورٌ في قلب الإنسان
لا يُطفأ"

-نصير شمه

-John Hearne, The Lost Country

"But it shimmers, it does not stop, and I think it wants me.
I would not mind if it were bones, or a pearl button.

I do not want much of a present, anyway, this year.
After all I am alive only by accident.

I would have killed myself gladly that time any possible way.
Now there are these veils, shimmering like curtains,"

-Sylvia Plath, A Birthday Present

"Deep down I wanted some kind of change. Any change, whether good or bad, would be better than the state of impasse I was in now."

-Sayaka Murata

"Time itself is one more name for death."

-C.S Lewis

-C.S Lewis, A Grief observed

-C.S Lewis, A Grief observed

-C.S Lewis

-Edwige Danticat, The Art of Death : Writing The Final Story

“The greatest suffering does not come from living in mirages,
but from awakening. There is no greater pain than awakening from a dream, the deep
crying over the dying selves…”

Anaïs nin

"God is a bridge
in a post card
that almost saw you jump
and the lighthouse below
that begged you to stay
Sometimes I think,
God is just me on my death bed."

-kitty lever