The entire world is a collection of memoranda that she did exist, and that I have lost her.

Existence, after losing her, would be hell

I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas: they've gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the colour of my mind.

How cruel, your veins are full of ice-water and mine are boiling.

How strange! I thought, though everybody hated and despised each other, they could not avoid loving me.

I pray every night that I may live after him; because I would rather be miserable than that he should be - that proves I love him better than myself.

I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!

If I were in heaven, Nelly, I should be extremely miserable." "Because you are not fit to go there," I answered. "All sinners would be miserable in heaven.

The thing that irks me most is this shattered prison, after all. I'm tired, tired of being enclosed here. I'm wearying to escape into that glorious world, and to be always there: not seeing it dimly...

I lingered round them, under that benign sky; watched the moths fluttering among the heath and hare-bells; listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass; and wondered how anyone could ever...

I hate him for himself, but despise him for the memories he revives.

Time brought resignation and a melancholy sweeter than common joy.

I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free... Why am I so changed? I'm sure I should be myself were I once among the heather on those hills.

Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same

Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies.

He wanted all to lie in an ecstasy of peace; I wanted all to sparkle and dance in a glorious jubilee. I said his heaven would be only half alive; and he said mine would be drunk: I said I should fall...

Honest people don't hide their deeds.

I have to remind myself to breathe -- almost to remind my heart to beat!

I gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death; and flung it back to me. People feel with their hearts, Ellen, and since he has destroyed mine, I have not power to feel for him.

I have dreamt in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind. And this...

I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.

Be with me always - take any form - drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! it is unutterable! I can not live without my life! I can not live without my...

He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.

Live as though life was created for you.

There was a possibility that God really did love me, me Maya Angelou. I suddenly began to cry at the gravity and grandeur of it all. I knew that if God loved me, then I could do wonderful things, I...

Graduation, the hush-hush magic time of frills and gifts and congratulations and diplomas, was finished for me before my name was called. The accomplishment was nothing. The meticulous maps, drawn in...

I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul.

I was basically good. Not understood, and not even liked, but even so, just, and better than just. I was merciful.

Water isn't shaped like a river or ocean; it mists invisibly against metal and glass

I want you to learn that you cannot have anything without working for it. The only way you can be taken advantage of is if you think you can get something for nothing.