Fyodor Dostoevsky, from a letter featured in Letters of Fyodor Michailovitch Dostoevsky to his Family & Friends

Nikolay Punin, from a diary entry featured in The Diaries of Nikolay Punin: 1904 - 1953

Emily Brontë, from The Collected Works & Poetry of Emily Brontë; “Wuthering Heights,”

Hand Lantern Print illustrated by artist Jessica Roux

Man of Sorrows (c. 1460) by Simon Marmion

Edna St. Vincent Millay, from a poem titled "Interim," featured in The Complete Poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay

Forugh Farrokhzad, from Let Us Believe In the Beginning of the Cold Season; "Another Birth,"

— Fyodor Dostoevsky (via lunamonchtuna)

But I always knew that in the end, no one was coming to save me.

Words by: @thesanitysipper

— Simone de Beauvoir, from a letter to Nelson Algren c. November 1949