I already said too much. I already shared too much, and I want all my secrets back. I hate getting close to people these days, I always regret sharing too much, caring too much, doing too much, feeling too much.

– Anonymous.

My dear, find what you love and let it kill you. Let it drain from you your all. Let it cling onto your back and weigh you down into eventual nothingness. Let it kill you, and let it devour your remains. For all things will kill you, both slowly and fastly, but it’s much better to be killed by a lover.

– Charles Bukowski.

Oh Allah,

• I told you: I’m in pain
• You said: ‘Do not despair of the mercy of Allah’ (39:53)
• I told you: Many people hurt me
• You said: ‘So pardon them and ask forgiveness for them’ (3:159)
• I told you: I feel I’m alone
• You said: ‘We are closer to him than [his] jugular vein’ (50:16)
• I told you: My sins are so many
• You said: ‘And who can forgive sins except Allah?’ (3:135)
• I told you: Do not leave me
• You said: ‘So remember Me; I will remember you…’ (2:152)
• I told you: I’m facing a lot of difficulties in life
• You said: ‘And whoever fears Allah – He will make for him a way out’ (65:2)
• I told you: I have many dreams that I want to come true
• You said: ‘Call upon Me; I will respond to you.’ (40:60)

“Mankind there has come to you a guidance from your Lord and a healing for (the diseases) in your hearts, and for those who believe a guidance and a mercy. (Yunus, 10;57)

I suffer from life and from other people. I can’t look at reality face to face. Even the sun discourages and depresses me. Only at night and all alone, withdrawn, forgotten and lost, with no connection to anything real or useful – only then do I find myself and feel comforted.

– fernando pessoa, the book of disquiet.

I almost said, you’re not broken, you’re just going through something. But I couldn’t  She knew. There was something terribly wrong with her, all the way inside. She was like a big diamond with a dead spot in the middle. I was supposed to breathe life into that dead spot, but it hadn’t worked.

– White Orleander.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls. The most massive characters are seared with scars

– Kahlil Gibran.

If you hear that someone is speaking ill of you, instead of trying to defend yourself you should say: He obviously does not know me very well, since there are so many other faults he could have mentioned.

– Epictetus.