Friend of the Night

“We carry within us the wonders we seek without us.” ― Sir Thomas Browne

“Love is when he gives you a piece of your soul, that you never knew was missing.” ― Torquato Tasso

“Too low they build, who build beneath the stars.” ― Edward Young

“The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is.” ― Desiderius Erasmus

“What a large volume of adventures may be grasped within the span of his little life by him who interests his heart in everything.” ― Laurence Sterne

Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.” ― John Donne

“I dream, therefore I exist.” ― August Strindberg

“Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.” ― T.S. Eliot

"What if I went back to sleep for a while, and forgot about all this nonsense?" he thought. ― Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis

“And thus the heart will break, yet brokenly live on.” ― Lord Byron

“Reading brings us unknown friends” ― Honore de Balzac

“The whole day, the whole night –nothing but the thought of her.” ― E.T.A. Hoffmann

“everything is ridiculous if one thinks of death” ― Thomas Bernhard

“Life has but one true charm: the charm of the game. But what if we’re indifferent to whether we win or lose?” ― Charles Baudelaire

“Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.” ― Ovid