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You can have a hangover from other things than alcohol. I had one from women

Raymond Chandler- The Big Sleep

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I didn't know what I was waiting for, but something told me to wait

Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep

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I sat there and poisoned myself with cigarette smoke and listened to the rain

Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep

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Things were not the same and now life only came in flashes

Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

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She is the only lady I have ever known who was as charming when she was drunk as when she was sober.

Ernest Hemingway

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You can’t get away from yourself by moving from one place to another

Ernest Hemingway

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I can’t stand it to think my life is going so fast and I’m not really living it

Ernest Hemingway

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Each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved

Oscar Wilde

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He wanted to be where no one would know who he was. He wanted to escape from himself

Oscar Wilde- The Picture of Dorian Gray

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The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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You will always be loved, and you will always be in love with love

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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The next time he calls, you will be perfectly cold and indifferent. It will be a great pity, for it will alter you. What you have told me is quite a romance, a romance of art one might call it, and the worst of having a romance of any kind is that it leaves one so unromantic

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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There are some beloved women whose eyes, by a chance blend of brilliancy and shape, affect us not directly, not at the moment of shy perception, but in a delayed and cumulative burst of light when the heartless person is absent, and the magic agony abides, and its lenses and lamps are installed in the dark

Vladimir Nabokov, Pnin

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Some people—and I am one of them—hate happy ends. We feel cheated. Harm is the norm. Doom should not jam. The avalanche stopping in its tracks a few feet above the cowering village behaves not only unnaturally but unethically.

Vladimir Nabokov, Pnin

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You're afraid of it because it's stronger than you, you hate it because you're afraid of it

Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

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He was in mourning for an intimate part of himself

Vladimir Nabokov, Pnin