"I Long For You;

"I long for you;

I who usually longs without longing, as though I am unconscious and absorbed in neutrality and apathy, really, utterly long for every bit of you."

-Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena-

(Artwork by IG @mohabfathy3)

We could be stargazing now, altogether.

Spread on the roof, like droplets of dew and ivies,

Wrapped up in meaningful silence, but

Instead, we're apart, counting stars

By the window, teeth-clenched and

Unblinking, waiting for shooting stars

To send each other flying kisses

Which smell of longing, of affection

And of resistance against the distance.

(poem by me)

"There are times when my longing for you overwhelms me […] so often I can think of you only with teeth clenched."

-Franz Kafka, Letters to Felice‎-

(Artwork/artist: unknown (to me)).

"Yours

(Now I'm even losing my name - it was getting shorter and shorter all the time and is now: Yours)."

{Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena}

(artwork by James Coates).

"And where, I ask you, can a man escape to, when he hasn't enough madness left inside him? The truth is an endless death agony. The truth is death. You have to choose: death or lies. I've never been able to kill myself."

-Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night-

(Artwork The Smoker by Christopher Thomson.)

From A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens.