"When I’m lying in my bed I think about life and I think about death and neither one particularly appeals to me." - Morrissey
"I don’t consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin." - Leonard Cohen
"I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones, and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life. And I am horribly limited." - Sylvia Plath
"How I yearn to throw myself into endless space and float above the awful abyss." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Last night I dreamed about you. What happened in detail I can hardly remember, all I know is that we kept merging into one another. I was you, you were me. Finally you somehow caught fire." - Franz Kafka to Milena Jesenska, 1921
"I wasn’t a misanthrope and I wasn’t a misogynist but I liked being alone. It felt good to sit alone in a small space and smoke and drink. I had always been good company for myself." - Charles Bukowski
"I’ve been smoking Pall Mall unfiltered cigarettes since I was 12 or 14,” he told Rolling Stone last year. “So I’m going to sue the Brown & Williamson Tobacco Company, who manufactured them. And do you know why? Because I’m 83 years old. The lying bastards! On the package Brown & Williamson promised to kill me." - Kurt Vonnegut