Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change

Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.

If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear!

Thus strangely are our souls constructed, and by slight ligaments are we bound to prosperity and ruin.

The world was to me a secret which I desired to divine.

we are enemies.

I am chained in an eternal hell.

We are fashioned creatures, but half made up

I believed myself totally unfitted for the company of strangers.

To examine the causes of life, we must first have recourse to death.

What can stop the determined heart and resolved will of man?

Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.

I do know that for the sympathy of one living being, I would make peace with all. I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other.

I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel...

Even broken in spirit as he is, no one can feel more deeply than he does the beauties of nature. The starry sky, the sea, and every sight afforded by these wonderful regions, seems still to have the power of elevating his soul from earth. Such a man has a double existence: he may suffer misery, and be overwhelmed by disappointments; yet, when he has retired into himself, he will be like a celestial spirit that has a halo around him, within whose circle no grief or folly ventures.

.. the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain

There is love in me the likes of which you've never seen. There is rage in me the likes of which should never escape. If I am not satisfied int he one, I will indulge the other

The world to me was a secret, which I desired to discover; to her it was a vacancy, which she sought to people with imaginations of her own

When falsehood can look so like the truth, who can assure themselves of certain happiness?

I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend. Make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous.

The whole series of my life appeared to me as a dream; I sometimes doubted if indeed it were all true, for it never presented itself to my mind with the force of reality.

The fallen angel becomes a malignant devil. Yet even that enemy of God and man had friends and associates in his desolation; I am alone.

Extend the life of your clothing and join us! Post your creations down below and tag us on Instagram

if you want to be part of our community pick on of the quotes and add it to your upcycled piece!

HOME