“There are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life… or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence.” Oscar Wilde

"It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top..." Alex Garland

"The pain of severe depression is quite unimaginable to those who have not suffered it, and it kills in many instances because its anguish can no longer be borne." William Styron, Darkness Visible

“Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.” Fyodor Dostoevsky

"I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul." Pablo Neruda, Sonnet XVII