Sofia

“Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents... some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new Dark Age.”
― H.P. Lovecraft

“When a man is in despair, it means that he still believes in something.”
― Dmitri Shostakovich

“Better to reign in Hell, than to serve in Heaven.”
― John Milton, Paradise Lost