David

“I know that I am mortal by nature, and ephemeral; but when I trace at my pleasure the windings to and fro of the heavenly bodies I no longer touch the earth with my feet: I stand in the presence of Zeus himself and take my fill of ambrosia”
― Ptolemy, Ptolemy's Almagest

“I have a lot of work to do today;
I need to slaughter memory,
Turn my living soul to stone
Then teach myself to live again.”
― Anna Akhmatova, The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova

“I want you! It doesn’t matter if I find someone else—they’re not you. So, I’m fucking doomed, do you understand me? Because I don’t want anyone else. And believe me, I’ve tried. But it seems that choice left me when I was five-years-old and my heart decided it belonged to you.”
― Penny Dee, Kings of Mayhem