#sad

One should let one's nails grow for a fortnight. O, how sweet it is to drag brutally from his bed a child with no hair on his upper lip and with wide open eyes, make as if to touch his forehead gently with one's hand and run one's fingers through his beautiful hair. Then suddenly, when he is least expecting it, to dig one's long nails into his soft breast, making sure, though, that one does not kill him; for if he died, one would not later be able to contemplate his agonies. Then one drinks his blood as one licks his wounds; and during this time, which ought to last for eternity, the child weeps. ↗

— Comte de Lautréamont

#murder #sadism #torture #beauty

There is nothing for you in this bleak hospital room but a cold and empty nothingness that has no answers, can give no peace, will provide no comfort to the living. ↗

— Rebecca James

#death #depression #empty #nothingness #sad

When they'd first come out in the morning, a single flounder lay flapping and puffing in the breezeway, one sad, swollen eye looking back toward the sea. ↗

— Dennis Lehane

#sad #beauty

That day we held our hands and each other was indeed a beautiful dream. But, we all wake up in the end. ↗

— Luke Blaise Pereira

#reality #sadness #beauty

Forever does not make loss forgettable, only bearable, Brother Zachariah to Clary Fray ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#death

I tried to find a way to go on. I could see familiar traces of the path that was my life, but there was always the wall behind me. Do you know what I mean? First you try and climb, pretending it never happened, but it's too tall. Then you try to go around, thinking you can fix it, but it is too far. Then, in frustration, you beat on it with your hands, but it does nothing, so you tire and sit down and just stare at it. You stare because you can't bring yourself to walk away. Walking away means that you're giving up, abandoning them. "There is no way back. There is only forward. It's impossible to imagine there's any reason to move ahead, but that isn't the real reason you give up. The real fear--the terror that keeps you rooted--is that you might be wrong." --Myron, Monk of Maribor ↗

— Michael J. Sullivan

#inspirational #myron #riyria #sad #beauty

Which scenario would be better to wake up from, a beautiful dream or a nightmare? For me, there is nothing more refreshing than to wake up from a nightmare and realize it wasn't real. Conversely, there is nothing more depressing than to wake up from a beautiful dream and realize it wasn't real. ↗

— John Smolak

#happiness #sadness #beauty

Have all beautiful things sad destinies? ↗

— Jean Rhys

#beauty #destiny #question #sad #beauty

Tis torture, and not mercy. Heaven is here Where Juliet lives, and every cat and dog And little mouse, every unworthy thing, Live here in heaven and may look on her, But Romeo may not. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#death #heaven #love #pain #romeo-and-juliet

Put me underneath God's sky and know me don't just look at me with your eyes Take away this mask of flesh and bone and see me for my soul alone ↗

— Jay Asher

#sad #beauty