Virginia Woolf's A Letter To Violet Dickinson, September 1907.

— Marie Howe, Magdalene: “Walking Home”

“I belong to quick, futile moments of intense feeling. Yes, I belong to moments. Not to people.”

Franz Khafka, Letters to Milena // Virginia Woolf, A Passionate Apprentice // Anne Sexton, A Self-Portrait In Letters

I feel sick. Sick of all the emotional turmoils within me.

— R. Arnold

I woke up from a nightmare, but it still seemed better than reality.

"Mission", Leonard Cohen

Nikos Kazantzakis, from a letter featured in The Selected Letters of Nikos Kazantzakis

— Louise Glück, "The Burning Heart"