“nothing but an icy loneliness that fills the head with emptiness and the heart with sadness.”
Erik Satie (1866–1925) French composer and pianist
about artist/model Suzanne Valadon at the end of their love affair
General quotes
Eugene Onegin (1823)
Original: (ru) Но так и быть — рукой пристрастной Прими собранье пестрых глав, Полусмешных, полупечальных, Простонародных, идеальных, Небрежный плод моих забав, Бессониц, легких вдохновений, Незрелых и увядших лет, Ума холодных наблюдений И сердца горестных замет.
“nothing but an icy loneliness that fills the head with emptiness and the heart with sadness.”
Erik Satie (1866–1925) French composer and pianist
about artist/model Suzanne Valadon at the end of their love affair
General quotes
Richard Francis Burton (1821–1890) British explorer, geographer, translator, writer, soldier, orientalist, cartographer, ethnologist, spy, lin…
The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî (1870)
Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) Bengali polymath
Source: Collected Poems and Plays of Rabindranath Tagore
Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo
Source: Magic Bleeds
Henri Bergson (1859–1941) French philosopher
In a letter accepting the 1927 Nobel Prize in literature http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1927/bergson-speech.html, read by the French minister, Armand Bernard.
“It is rarely that the pleasures of the imagination will compensate for the pain of sleeplessness”
Thomas Hardy book Far from the Madding Crowd
Source: Far from the Madding Crowd
“Sleepless,
Twenty-four hours of searching
Searching for my life”
Kate Havnevik (1975) Norwegian singer-songwriter
Sleepless
Song lyrics
Thomas Lansing Masson (1866–1934) American journalist
Thomas Lansing Masson (1922) Our American Humorists. p. ix ; Quoted in: Today's Health, (1957), p. 52.