“What is freedom? It consists in two things: to know each his own limitations and accept them – that is the same thing as to know oneself, and accept oneself as one is, without fear, or envy, or distaste; and to recognise and accept the conditions under which one lives, also without fear or envy, or distaste. When you do this, you shall be free.” 

― Ann Bridge, Illyrian Spring

“Happiness, thou art naught but an illusion. Thy enchantments are cast upon my eyes, my mind, my spellbound heart. Dependent upon nothing but thy victim's perception of thee, souls soar at thy artful hand! I have fallen in love with thy illusions, Happiness. Thou hast made me a part of them, and I am left delirious.” 

― Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway

“That's the thing about depression: A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight. But depression is so insidious, and it compounds daily, that it's impossible to ever see the end.” 

― Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation

“The ordinary procedure of the nineteenth century is that when a powerful and noble personage encounters a man of feeling, he kills, exiles, imprisons or so humiliates him that the other, like a fool, dies of grief.” 

― Stendhal, The Red and the Black

“Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.” 

― Stendhal, The Red and the Black

“I am mad, I am going under, I must follow the advice of a friend, and pay no heed to myself.” 

― Stendhal, The Red and the Black

“There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.” 

― Stendhal, Love