“If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.”
― Virginia Woolf
“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky
“All great and precious things are lonely.”
― John Steinbeck
“I think… if it is true that
there are as many minds as there
are heads, then there are as many
kinds of love as there are hearts.”
― Leo Tolstoy
“He’s more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”
― Emily Brontë
“If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.”
― Emily Dickinson
“It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.”
― Rabindranath Tagore
“Man is what he believes.”
― Anton Chekhov
“What the world calls sorrow is really joy to the poet.”
― Premchand
“Then I learned that the God who made that filthy body to hide the pure gold of life is no different from the old man who rests his gold seal in a wall of raw mud.”
― Mahadevi Verma