“I'm Nobody! Who are you?

Are you – Nobody – too?

Then there's a pair of us?

Don't tell! they'd advertise – you know!

How dreary – to be – Somebody!

How public – like a Frog – 

To tell one's name – the livelong June – 

To an admiring Bog!” 

― Emily Dickinson

“If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only ways I know it. Is there any other way?” 

― Emily Dickinson, Selected Letters

“Why did you look at the sunset?'

Philip answered with his mouth full:

Because I was happy.” 

― W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

“I want that. I want that awful intense and serious unhappiness, cos then I might feel better, and then I might be happy.” 

― David Thewlis, The Late Hector Kipling

“Do not think that one has to be sad in order to be militant, even though the thing one is fighting is abominable.” 

― Michel Foucault, Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia

“Always try to be joyful and proactively benign to the people. 

By doing so everyday, people have no control at all over my mood.” 

― Toba Beta, Betelgeuse Incident

“Inebriate of air am I,

And debauchee of dew,

Reeling, through endless summer days,

From inns of molten blue.” 

― Emily Dickinson