WARNINGS: MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES, IMPLIED DEPRESSION
feel free to adjust pronouns / names as needed !
❛ i am a cage, in search of a bird. ❜
❛ don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical. ❜
❛ don’t edit your own soul according to the fashion. ❜
❛ follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly. ❜
❛ youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. ❜
❛ anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old. ❜
❛ i write differently from what i speak. ❜
❛ i speak differently from what i think. ❜
❛ i cannot make you understand. ❜
❛ i cannot even explain it to myself. ❜
❛ i cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. ❜
❛ a first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die. ❜
❛ the meaning of life is that it stops. ❜
❛ all language is but a poor translation. ❜
❛ remain sitting at your table and listen. ❜
❛ do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. ❜
❛ it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet. ❜
❛ the nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired. ❜
❛ slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life. ❜
❛ i have the true feeling of myself only when i am unbearably unhappy. ❜
❛ paths are made by walking. ❜
❛ i can’t think of any greater happiness than to be with you all the time. ❜
❛ it’s because of their stupidity that they’re able to be so sure of themselves. ❜
❛ there is an infinite amount of hope in the universe … but not for us. ❜
❛ he is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived. ❜
❛ i have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it. ❜
❛ i usually solve problems by letting them devour me. ❜
❛ i am in chains. don’t touch my chains. ❜
❛ i never wish to be easily defined. ❜
❛ start with what is right rather than what is acceptable. ❜
❛ love is, that you are the knife which i plunge into myself. ❜
❛ i miss you deeply, unfathomably, senselessly, terribly. ❜
❛ now i can look at you in peace; i don’t eat you any more. ❜
❛ better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have. ❜
❛ you are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart. ❜
❛ i’m tired, can’t think of anything and want only to lay my face in your lap. ❜
❛ they say ignorance is bliss… they’re wrong. ❜
❛ in man’s struggle against the world, bet on the world. ❜
❛ in a way, you are poetry material. ❜
❛ you are full of cloudy subtleties i am willing to spend a lifetime figuring out. ❜
❛ you can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world. ❜
❛ that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature. ❜
❛ perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid. ❜
❛ beyond a certain point there is no return. this point has to be reached. ❜
❛ people label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. ❜
❛ i can only pronounce myself as ‘nauseatingly miserable beyond repair’. ❜
❛ love is a drama of contradictions. ❜
❛ i’m even losing my name, it was getting shorter & shorter all the time & is now: yours ❜
❛ first impressions are always unreliable. ❜
❛ if i shall exist eternally, how shall i exist tomorrow? ❜
❛ evil is whatever distracts. ❜
❛ what do you know of the griefs that are in me and what do i know of yours? ❜
❛ how about if i sleep a little bit longer and forget all this nonsense? ❜
❛ kill me, or you are a murderer. ❜
❛ last night i dreamed about you. ❜
❛ what am i doing here in this endless winter? ❜
❛ if you become involved with me, you will be throwing yourself into the abyss. ❜
❛ my guiding principle is this: guilt is never to be doubted. ❜
❛ i am dirty, endlessly dirty, that is why i make such a fuss about cleanliness. ❜
❛ please — consider me a dream. ❜
❛ i can love only what i can place so high above me that i cannot reach it. ❜
❛ i’m doing badly, i’m doing well, whichever you prefer. ❜
❛ for myself i am too heavy, and for you too light. ❜
❛ it certainly was not my intention to make you suffer. ❜
❛ you can choose to be free , but it’s last decision you’ll ever make. ❜
❛ even if no salvation should come, i want to be worthy of it at every moment. ❜
❛ he was a tool of the boss, without brains or backbone. ❜
❛ if i could drown in sleep as i drown in fear i would be no longer alive. ❜
❛ i lack nothing. i only needed myself. ❜
❛ i long for you; i who usually longs without longing, as though i am unconscious and absorbed in neutrality and apathy. ❜
❛ i really, utterly long for every bit of you. ❜
❛ even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith. ❜
❛ you misinterpret everything, even the silence. ❜
❛ you must not pay too much attention to opinions. ❜
❛ i only fear danger where i want to fear it. ❜
❛ nor is it perhaps really love when i say that for me you are the most beloved. ❜
❛ in this love you are like a knife, with which i explore myself. ❜
❛ i like to make use of what i know ❜