Søren Kierkegaard

“With every increase in the degree of consciousness, and in proportion to that increase, intensity of despair increases: the more consciousness the more intense the despair.”

Seneca the Younger

“What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears.”

• Letter to Marcia(XI.1)

Bram Stoker

“How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.”

• Dracula