“And now, José? The party is over, the light is out, the people have gone, the night is cold, and now, José?”— Carlos Drummond de Andrade
“Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor resignation, but in a desperate hedonism, a reckless refusal to give up the world.”— Georges Bataille
“There is an appalling void in me. Sometimes I feel I could stick my fingers in my ears and scream.”— Georg Büchner
“And Richard Cory, one calm summer night, Went home and put a bullet through his head.”— Edwin Arlington Robinson
“They've taken my place; they've taken my money; they've taken my mistress! What have I left?”— Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais
“Written with the heavy heart and trembling hand of your highness's most heavy and most miserable prisoner and poor slave.”— Thomas Cromwell