The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.

The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

There is no beauty without some strangeness

All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.

The believer is happy. The doubter is wise.

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.

And so, being young and dipt in folly, I fell in love with melancholy.

I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.

They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

Tomorrow, smile at a perfect stranger and mean it.

Absence is the enemy of love and the friend of friendship.

What are you going to do?,' he asked me. Me? Nothing. Something has just been broken inside me; you yourself will never be able to repair it.

They love their land, because it is their own, And scorn to give aught other reason why; Would shake hands with a king upon his throne, And think it kindness to his majesty. - Fitz

News is history shot on the wing.

Animals are also the ones that are guarding the graves, and they are the ones who communicate between the dead and the alive.

I’ve always been a black sheep. That’s a hard thing to be until you find your calling in life. I was bullied a lot at school, probably because I was perceived to be different from everyone else.

I believe in the old warrior's credo that "to the victor go the spoils."

The rust of the mind is the destruction of genius.

The exhaustion of old age is something people who are younger don't fully appreciate.