“Sleep that knits up the ravelled sleave of care
The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath
Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course,
Chief nourisher in life's feast.”
~ William Shakespeare, Macbeth

"Show your face, please, tie me down somewhere. Tie me down to this world. I don't want to join the ghosts. I'm just an ordinary person. I need you."
~ 春上村树 《舞，舞，舞》

"It is easy to go down into Hell; night and day, the gates of Death stand wide; but to climb back again, to retrace one’s steps to the upper air – therein lies the difficulty."
~ Virgil, The Aeneid

Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.
~ Robert Frost, Fice and Ice

I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders.
~ Jewish Proverb

Some people drink to forget their unhappiness. I do not drink, I build.
~ William Beckford (1759–1844), English writer and collector

It is a new age. It requires a new evil. And I am that new evil.
~ Lestat, The Vampire Lestat

It's an awful truth that suffering can deepen us, give a greater luster to our colors, a richer resonance to our words.That is, if it doesn't destroy us, if it doesn't burn away the optimism and the spirit, the capacity for visions, and the respect for simple yet indispensable
things.
~ Lestat, Queen of the Damned