just somewhere deep to bury my feelings.

“It was one of the best days of my life, a day during which I lived my life and didn’t think about my life at all.” - Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“Optimism is not only a false but also a pernicious doctrine, for it presents life as a desirable state and man’s happiness as its aim and object. Starting from this, everyone then believes he has the most legitimate claim to happiness and enjoyment. If, as usually happens, these do not fall to his lot, he believes that he suffers an injustice, in fact that he misses the whole point of his existence.” - Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation

“I mean, I have the feeling that something in my mind is poisoning everything else.” - Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“It was like being at the bottom of an ocean. There was no light and a whole ocean crushing down on you. But most people had gotten so used to it they thought it normal, they forgot even that there was a world above.” - Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

“The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength, each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving.” - Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex