That’s the thing about pain, it demands to be felt.
—John Green

To be or not to be. That’s not really a question. 
—Jean-Luc Godard

Let them think what they liked, but I didn't mean to drown myself. I meant to swim till I sank -- but that's not the same thing.
―Joseph Conrad

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
― Edgar Allan Poe

Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.
—Theodor Seuss Geisel

If someone wonders how Jesus raised the dead,
don't try to explain the miracle.
Kiss me on the lips.
                                 Like this. Like this.
—Rumi

I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.
—Sylvia Plath 

I want
To do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.

— Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

Imagine that every person in the world is enlightened but you. They are all your teachers, each doing just the right things to help you learn perfect patience, perfect wisdom, perfect compassion.
— Buddha

No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.
—Albert Einstein

I shall die, but that is all that I shall do for Death.
—Edna St. Vincent Millay

Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.
–Friedrich Nietzsche

What I’m proudest of is having a life where work and love are impossible to tell apart.
–Eve Sedgwick

Physicists are made of atoms. A physicist is an attempt by an atom to understand itself.
 ― Michio Kaku

The wound is the place where the Light enters you.
 ―Rumi

Love is a flame that burns everything other than itself. It is the destruction of all that is false and the fulfillment of all that is true.

—Adyashanti

Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.

—Kurt Vonnegut

This place is a dream. Only a sleeper considers it real. Then death comes like dawn, and you wake up laughing at what you thought was your grief.
—Rumi 

I talk to God but the sky is empty.
—Sylvia Plath

He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man. 
—Samuel Johnson