If pain is part of your being, overcoming it is like a loss and causes a pang of regret. I owe to suffering the best parts of myself as well as all that I have lost in life.

- Emil Cioran

Skeletons by Kawanabe Kyosai, 19th century.

A Maoist rebel soldier wearing a Britney Spears t-shirt stands among a battalion of other soldiers of the People’s Liberation Army, First Brigade, Mid Division during a drill in a schoolyard in the village of Gairigaon.

The lion in winter, 1948.

Ingeborg Bachmann

visual representations of how intense heartbreak and loneliness feel

Andrew Wyeth, Wolves, detail

Kuwait, 1991