"The perfect similarity is the absolute difference."

"Nothing isn't better or worse than anything. Nothing is just nothing."

"The past is just a story we tell ourselves."

"Yeah, you're always gonna disappoint somebody."

"A heart is not a box that you fill up, it expands the more you love"

"No! No, I think it’s… I think anybody who falls in love is a freak. It’s a crazy thing to do. It’s kind of like a form of socially acceptable insanity."

"Depression is like wanting to go home but already being there."

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”

“So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.”

“Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anybody.”

“I would die for you. But I won't live for you.”

“So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there. We can still do things. And we can try to feel okay about them.”

“I am very interested and fascinated how everyone loves each other, but no one really likes each other.”

"I don't understand why people, why every fucking person is so bad to each other so fucking often. It doesn't make sense to me."

"I’m not sure what I’ll do, but - well I want to go places, and see people...I want my mind to grow. I want to live where things happen on a big scale."

"When you start something, your motivation comes from a really strong feeling of inspiration. As you go on, it gets harder and harder to remember that feeling."

"Don't let your happiness depend on something you may lose."

"There is grace in being where you are."

"You don’t have to have the solution, you’ve got to understand the problem and don’t go hoping for a miracle. All this will fade away."

“To know oneself is, above all, to know what one lacks. It is to measure oneself against Truth, and not the other way around. The first product of self-knowledge is humility, and this is not a virtue conspicuous in any national character.”

"Nobody is going to give you a thing. You have to give it yourself."

"The biggest tool, and enemy, a smart person will ever have is their own mind, and their ability to make comparisons."

"As pessoas vivem esperando e querendo coisas das outras. Quando a mais pura realidade é que ninguém nunca vai dar algo que não pode dar."

"Empatia é um pitbull, né? Quem vê de fora, acha que é um monstro, mas quem tem, acha massa e queria que todo mundo tivesse."

“To define is to limit.”

"Be the person you needed when you were younger"

"People believe what they want to believe. This is the way the world works. No black and white, always grey."

“Most people think of themselves as individuals, that there's no one on the planet like them. This thought motivates them to get out of bed, eat food and walk around like nothing's wrong. My name is Oliver Tate.”

“It is strange to hear your mother talk about being human because, honestly, it's too easy to forget.”

"A friend told me that love is not for cowards."

“There’s no such thing as love, there are only proofs of love."

"Quando você se cuida, você cuida indiretamente das pessoas que se importam com você."

"Beginning a relationship is like going on a trip. And going far away can show how close you can be."

"I know you're not always perfect. I know you have tons of problems, defects, imperfections... but who doesn't? It's just that I prefer your problems. I'm in love with your imperfections. Your imperfections are just great!"

"Maybe the day to day dirt is part of love."

"If you speak gently, you'll find good people wherever you go. If you find a bad person, just move on to the next person."

"I'm sorry the world is so messed up. I'm sorry you've experienced such horror and such loss."

"We just want to be together and not be afraid." (Erbil, Iraq)

“It's fear of the unknown. The unknown is what it is. And to be frightened of it is what sends everybody scurrying around chasing dreams, illusions, wars, peace, love, hate, all that--it's all illusion. Unknown is what it is. Accept that it's unknown and it's plain sailing. Everything is unknown--then you're ahead of the game. That's what it is. Right?”

"We're in love. We just want to be together. What's wrong with that?"

"These are my books. I like stories with magic powers in them. Either in kingdoms on Earth or on foreign planets. Usually I prefer a girl hero, but not always."

"It's been proven by history: all mankind makes mistakes."

"I forgive you because I don't want to remain angry."

"Be curious, not judgmental."

"I don't want to survive. I want to live."

"Artists, poets and dreamers often are doomed to repeat history, I think, because they cannot ignore the beauty of the moment."

"I'm afraid of everything. I've been reading psychology books to try to figure out why. Logically, I know everything is fine. I know that I'm only twenty, and I have so many blessings and advantages. Yet I'm afraid I haven't accomplished enough yet. I'm afraid of the future. Afraid of getting older. Afraid of being alone. Afraid of having a child. And afraid of the dark. I'm really, really afraid of the dark."

"And what’s eating you alive might help you to survive."

"Loneliness is horrendous but the worst is being surrounded by people who make you feel lonely."

"As pessoas são muitas coisas."

"Listen to everyone. The quickest, most effective way to empower people is to listen to them. When people feel heard, they feel valued."

"Inspiration isn't really something that you can sit around and extract from your psyche."

"I used to think I was the strangest person in the world but then I thought there are so many people in the world, there must be someone just like me who feels bizarre and flawed in the same ways I do. I would imagine her, and imagine that she must be out there thinking of me too. Well, I hope that if you are out there and read this and know that, yes, it's true I'm here, and I'm just as strange as you.”

"Someone once told me to draw a line around my feet - and then told me that that's the part of the world that I am in charge of."

"Basic research is what I am doing when I don't know what I am doing."

"I have a hard time hiding from most things that I want to hide from."

"Just because your pain is understandable, doesn’t mean your behavior is acceptable."

"You can tell so much about a person by the way they leave you.”

"There is not one person in this world that is not cripplingly sad about something. You remember that before you open your mouth.”

"In one aspect, yes, I believe in ghosts, but we create them. We haunt ourselves."

“Stay close to anything that makes you glad that you’re alive.”

"But it's also true that the person who risks nothing, does nothing; has nothing. All we know about the future is that it will be different. But, perhaps what we fear is that it will be the same. So, we must celebrate the changes. Because, as someone once said "Everything will be all right in the end. And if it's not all right, then trust me, it's not yet the end." "

"Evelyn: Nothing here has worked out quite as I expected. Muriel: Most things don't. But sometimes what happens instead is the good stuff."

"Is it our friend we are grieving for, whose life we knew so little? Or is it our own loss that we are mourning? Have we traveled far enough that we can allow our tears to fall? "

"Well, you don't love life itself. You love, uh, places, animals, people, memories, food, literature, music. And sometimes you meet someone... who requires all the love you have to give. And if you lose that someone, you think everything else is gonna stop too. But everything else just keeps on going. Giraudoux said, you can miss a single being, even though you are surrounded by countless others. Those people are like... like extras. They cloud your vision, they're a meaningless crowd. They... They're an unwelcome distraction. So you seek oblivion in solitude. But solitude only makes you wither."

"I'm finding out that being an adult is a lot more than learning how to cook."

"Falling in love doesn’t mean sacrificing your dreams."

"Today, all of humanity’s dreams are cursed somehow. Beautiful yet cursed dreams. I’m not even talking about wanting to be rich or famous. Screw that. That’s just hopeless. What I mean is, how do we know movies are even worthwhile? If you really think about it, is this not just some grand hobby? Maybe there was a time when you could make films that mattered, but now? Most of our world is rubbish. It’s difficult."

"To choose one thing means to give up on another."

"I like people who dream or talk to themselves interminably; I like them, for they are double. They are here and elsewhere."

"Stop looking for happiness in the same place you lost it.”

"You are what you love, not what loves you. That's what I decided a long time ago."

"There are too many ideas and things and people. Too many directions to go. I was starting to believe the reason it matters to care passionately about something, is that it whittles the world down to a more manageable size."

"Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could.”

"One of the cruelest things you can do to another person is pretend you care about them more than you really do."

"Your relationship with yourself sets the tone for every other relationship you have."

"So many people are shut up tight inside themselves like boxes, yet they would open up, unfolding quite wonderfully, if only you were interested in them."

"I'm trying to love people because they exist and not because of what they can do for me."

"I’ve been hurt so bad and I still love so hard. I admire my heart for that."

"Sometimes suffering is just suffering. It doesn’t make you stronger. It doesn’t build character. It only hurts."

"The worst part about anything that’s self destructive is that it’s so intimate. You become so close with your addictions and illnesses that leaving them behind is like killing the part of yourself that taught you how to survive.

"God is the answer when we don't know the answer."

"Casual reminder that you are the most important thing in your life. You are top priority. Nothing comes before you and your self care. You are allowed to be self interested."

"We have calcium in our bones, iron in our veins, carbon in our souls, and nitrogen in our brains.93 percent stardust, with souls made of flames, we are all just stars that have people names.”

"Being an artist means forever healing your own wounds and at the same time endlessly exposing them." "We’re constantly changing facts, rewriting history to make things easier, to make them fit in with our preferred version of events. We do it automatically. We invent memories. Without thinking. If we tell ourselves something happened often enough we start to believe it, and then we can actually remember it."

“I think about dying but I don't want to die. Not even close. In fact my problem is the complete opposite. I want to live, I want to escape. I feel trapped and bored and claustrophobic. There’s so much to see and so much to do but I somehow still find myself doing nothing at all. I’m still here in this metaphorical bubble of existence and I can’t quite figure out what the hell I’m doing or how to get out of it.”

"Inside every person you know, there’s a person you don’t know."

"What happened to us? She was lightning and I was thunder, the timing was always slightly off.”

"I keep remembering — I keep remembering. My heart has no pity on me."

"I often feel like books find us for reasons, and we read them when we need them the most."

"Kindness is a form of intelligence."

"I’m scared you will realize I’m just bones and questions and leave me for something solid."

"Understand me. I’m not like an ordinary world. I have my madness, I live in another dimension and I do not have time for things that have no soul."

"People are rivers, always ready to move from one state of being into another. It is not fair, to treat people as if they are finished beings. Everyone is always becoming and unbecoming."

"Sometimes our actions don’t reflect who we really are. So we lie. Sometimes our lies are more honest than the truth."

"Sometimes it’s like people are a million times more beautiful to you in your mind. It’s like you see them through a special lens — but maybe if it’s how you see them, that’s how they really are.”

"There is not one person in this world that is not cripplingly sad about something. You remember that before you open your mouth.”

“Let’s vow to never become the monsters that we are trying to protect ourselves from.”

“I think a lot of art is trying to make someone love you.”

“The poison leaves bit by bit, not all at once. Be patient. You are healing.”

"Memories are dangerous things. You turn them over and over, until you know every touch and corner, but still you’ll find an edge to cut you."

"The capacity to be alone is the capacity to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it is not. It is an existential truth: only those people who are capable of being alone are capable of love, of sharing, of going into the deepest core of the other person—without possessing the other, without becoming dependent on the other, without reducing the other to a thing, and without becoming addicted to the other."

“It’s one of my theories that when people give you advice, they’re really just talking to themselves in the past.”

“All too often women believe it is a sign of commitment, an expression of love, to endure unkindness or cruelty, to forgive and forget. In actuality, when we love rightly we know that the healthy, loving response to cruelty and abuse is putting ourselves out of harm’s way.”

"Its sad to fall asleep. It separates people. Even when you're sleeping together, you're all alone."

"There are moments, when you’re getting to know someone, when you realize something deep and buried in you is deep and buried in them, too. It feels like meeting a stranger you’ve known your whole life.”

“So often loneliness comes from being out of touch with parts of oneself. We go searching for those parts in other people, but there’s a difference between feeling separate from others and separate from oneself.”

"there are two types of tired, I suppose one is a dire need of sleep the other is a dire need of peace."

"Maybe we feel empty because we leave pieces of ourselves in everything we used to love."

“Those who love you are not fooled by mistakes you have made or dark images you hold about yourself. They remember your beauty when you feel ugly; your wholeness when you are broken; your innocence when you feel guilty; and your purpose when you are confused.”

“Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here.”

"We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit."

"I forgive people but that doesn’t mean I accept their behavior or trust them. I forgive them for me, so I can let go and move on with my life."

“You are not a graveyard. Stop opening your arms to those who are only looking for a place to rest their tired bones.”

“Whatever you think, be sure it is what you think; whatever you want, be sure that is what you want; whatever you feel, be sure that is what you feel.”

“We become what we think about."

"I, too, remember the feeling. You are caught between all that was and all that must be. You feel lost.”

"Accept the fact that you will grow apart from people you’ve had significant relationships with. Understand when someone no longer positively affects your life. Let them go. Don’t hinder your growth.”

“you. not wanting me. was the beginning of me wanting myself. thank you.”

“Loneliness does not come from being alone, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important.”

"If we wait until we’re ready, we’ll be waiting for the rest of our lives."

"Solitude is just fancy loneliness"

“And then, suddenly, something is over.”

"I've spent so much time in my head & in my heart that I forgot to live in my body."

"Who hurt you so much that you started to hate yourself?"

"Avoiding people. I avoid people that I actually like. I suppose that’s a phobia, but it’s also a habit."

"Please be a traveler, not a tourist. Try new things, meet new people, and look beyond what’s right in front of you. Those are the keys to understanding this amazing world we live in."

"I become attached to people I shouldn’t. I distance myself from the people who matter. I am bad with people. I am good at being alone. But I hate being lonely."

"I’m not searching for my other half because I’m not a half."

"I demand unconditional love and complete freedom. That is why I am terrible."

"How can I expect anyone to love me when all I do is beg to be left alone."

"I fantasize about rejecting the apologies that I know will never come."

"Most of my life has been spent trying to shrink myself. Trying to become smaller. Quieter. Less sensitive. Less opinionated. Less needy. Less me. Because I didn’t want to be a burden. I didn’t want to be too much or push people away. I wanted people to like me. I wanted to be cared for and valued. I wanted to be wanted. So for years, I sacrificed myself for the sake of making other people happy. And for years, I suffered. But I’m tired of suffering, and I’m done shrinking. It’s not my job to change who I am in order to become someone else’s idea of a worthwhile human being. I am worthwhile. Not because other people think I am, but because I exist, and therefore I matter. My thoughts matter. My feelings matter. My voice matters. And with or without anyone’s permission or approval, I will continue to be who I am and speak my truth. Even if it makes people angry. Even if it makes them uncomfortable. Even if they choose to leave. I refuse to shrink. I choose to take up space. I choose to honour my feelings. I choose to give myself permission to get my needs met. I choose to make self-care a priority. I choose me."

"Be with someone who is good for your mental health. This applies to friends as well as lovers; removing the toxic people from my life and surrounding me with only positivity was the best move I’ve ever made.

“I love when it’s almost dawn because that’s when my creature friends wake up and start singing to me.”

"The best advice I’ve ever received: 'no one else knows what they are doing either.'"

"Depression is the need to constantly be distracted (being on social media, playing video games, watching movies or shows, or working all the time) because I can’t trust myself with my thoughts for longer than 3 minutes.

"We control our thoughts which mean nothing, and not our emotions which mean everything."

"Oh, I’m fine. It’s just that life is pointless and nothing matters and I’m always tired. Also, I can’t sleep, I’m overeating and none of my old hobbies interest me."

“I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.”

"Everyone is my teacher. Some I seek. Some I subconsciously attract. Often I learn simply by observing others. Some may be completely unaware that I’m learning from them, yet I bow deeply in gratitude."

"Listen to me, your body is not a temple. Temples can be destroyed and desecrated. Your body is a forest - thick canopies of maple trees and sweet scented wildflowers sprouting in the underwood. You will grow back, over and over, no matter how badly you are devastated."

"You are allowed to outgrow people."

"There are things I'll never tell you, and it is sad to think it so—the more you come to know me, the less of me you'll know."

"It's in every person's life, around 27 to 29 years old, the stars and the planets align themselves to exactly the way they were when you were born. You're faced with yourself. There's no running away."

"So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers."

"Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won’t be the victim of needless suffering."

“Try not to take things personally. Often what people say is a reflection of them, not of you.”

"Sometimes all you can do is lie in bed, close your eyes, & hope you fall asleep before thoughts start coming for you."

"All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost"

"The hardest battle you will ever have to fight is between who you are now and who you want to be."

"You were meant To rattle the tectonic plates Of anyone who has ever told you That you’re not enough."

"Having so much to say but being unable to say it has been my lifelong curse."

"people are allowed to leave you. people are allowed to break up with you. people are allowed to love you but not want to be with you. people are allowed to not want to talk to you. people are allowed to put their happiness before yours and do what makes them happy even if it does not include you. people are allowed to move on from you. people are allowed to fall in love with someone else. people are allowed to not want you in their life. people are allowed to do whatever they want to better themselves and become the version of themselves they are trying so hard to love. don’t be bitter towards someone who is only trying to be happy."

"I want to cry and scream until my lungs hurt or I run out of tears. I want to throw things until they break and punch walls until I can no longer feel my hands. I want to kick down my door or throw myself onto the floor until my body stops shaking. I have so many pent up emotions, anger, hurt, sadness, betrayal. I want to hurt everything because everything is hurting me. But all i’m going to do is pretend that everything is fine"

"I can survive either love or insanity. But not both. And you bring me both"

"I am slowly learning that some people are not good for me, no matter how much I love them. I deserve someone who is gentle and kind, because my soul is getting tired. Realizing that I deserve something good is one of the first steps."

“You are on the floor crying, and you have been on the floor crying for days. And that is you being brave. That is you getting through it as best you know how. No one else can decide what your tough looks like.”

"The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too."

“A lover doesn’t discourage your growth. A lover says, ‘I see who you are today, I cannot wait to see who you become tomorrow’”

"The most important day is the day you decide you’re good enough for you. It’s the day you set yourself free."

"I was always ashamed to take. So I gave. It was not a virtue. It was a disguise."

"I made bad decisions for temporary happiness."

"I am eternally, devastatingly romantic, and I thought people would see it because ‘romantic’ doesn’t mean ‘sugary.’ It’s dark and tormented — the furor of passion, the despair of an idealism that you can’t attain."

“The cost of oblivious daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realignment with what had been before and now seemed a little worse.”

“...falling in love could be achieved in a single word—a glance.”

“How guilt refined the methods of self-torture, threading the beads of detail into an eternal loop, a rosary to be fingered for a lifetime.”

“From this new and intimate perspective, she learned a simple, obvious thing she had always known, and everyone knew; that a person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn, not easily mended.”

"Something has happened, hasn't it? It's like being up close to something so large you don't even see it. Even now I'm not sure I can. But I know it's there."

"Anytime you’re gonna grow, you’re gonna lose something. You’re losing what you’re hanging onto to keep safe. You’re losing habits that you’re comfortable with, you’re losing familiarity."

"Your handwriting. The way you walk. Which china pattern you choose. It’s all giving you away. Everything you do shows your hand. Everything is a self-portrait. Everything is a diary."

"There is no magic cure, no making it all go away forever. There are only small steps upward; an easier day, an unexpected laugh, a mirror that doesn’t matter anymore."

"I am that clumsy human, always loving, loving, loving. And loving. And never leaving."

"I still remember you

as a little girl

who overwaters plants

because she doesn’t know

when to stop giving."

"To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing."

"Maybe when we say love, we mean a safe place to fall apart."

"Don’t struggle so much, the best things happen when not expected."

"Like all strong people, she suffered always a measure of loneliness…"

“Narrow minds devoid of imagination. Intolerance, theories cut off from reality, empty terminology, usurped ideals, inflexible systems. Those are the things that really frighten me. What I absolutely fear and loathe.”

"Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can."

“To feel. To trust the feeling. I long for that”

“I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, ‘This is what it is to be happy.’”

“We try so hard to hide everything we’re really feeling from those who probably need to know our true feelings the most.”

“Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.”

“I think a person needs to learn from childhood to find himself alone. It means to not be bored when you’re by yourself, because a person who finds himself bored when alone – as it seems to me – is in danger.”

“I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.”

“Here, in my solitude, I have the feeling that I contain too much humanity. It oozes out of me like a broken tube of toothpaste; it doesn’t want to stay within the confines of my body. A strange feeling of weight and volume. Soul volume perhaps, which rises like clouds of smoke and envelops my body.”

“We laugh less and less, become more sadly sane. All we want is the absence of others.”

“I think it’s very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person.”

"And silence, like darkness, can be kind; it, too, is a language.”

“How do we forgive ourselves for all of the things we did not become?”

“Loneliness was an unsatisfied thirst for illusion.”

“We are sealed in our own little melancholy atmospheres, like planets, and revolving around the sun, our common but distant desire.”

"I go through phases. Somedays I feel like the person I’m supposed to be, and then somedays, I turn into no one at all. There is both me and my silhouette. I hope that on the days you find me and all I am are darkened lines, you still are willing to be near me."

"your mouth is full of glass cuts, so speak a little bit more gently about yourself. it will take a while before everything heals, before you stop adding “i’m an idiot” “i’m ugly” “i’m a mistake” to everything, before your jokes are less about death and more about love. one day, if you do this, you will stop tasting blood."

“I guess I felt attached to my weakness. My pain and suffering too. Summer light, the smell of a breeze, the sound of cicadas - if I like these things, why should I apologize?”

"Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something and has lost something."

"The sad thing is, nobody ever really knows how much anyone else is hurting. We could be standing next to somebody who is completely broken and we wouldn’t even know it."

"Can you understand? Someone, somewhere, can you understand me a little, love me a little? For all my despair, for all my ideals, for all that—I love life. But it is hard, and I have so much—so very much to learn."

"Mother says there are locked rooms inside all women, kitchen of love, bedroom of grief, bathroom of apathy. Sometimes, the men, they come with keys, and sometimes the men, they come with hammers."

"There are songs I can’t listen to anymore, movies I can’t watch anymore, names I can’t say out loud anymore. Because the things that come with them are things I don’t want to feel anymore."

"a weird thing about having developed mental illness at such a young age is i honestly don’t know sometimes how much of me is a symptom and how much is down to personality; i honestly do not know my core self and it troubles me A Lot."

"Your personality is not set in stone."

"No one can tell what goes on in between the person you were and the person you become. No one can chart that blue and lonely section of hell. There are no maps of the change. You just come out the other side. Or you don’t."

"When you feel perpetually unmotivated, you start questioning your existence in an unhealthy way; everything becomes a pseudo intellectual question you have no interest in responding whatsoever. This whole process becomes your very skin and it does not merely affect you; it actually defines you. So, you see yourself as a shadowy figure unworthy of developing interest, unworthy of wondering about the world - profoundly unworthy in every sense and deeply absent in your very presence."

"How come someone hasn't noticed that I'm dead and decided to bury me?"

"Where is sad? Sad is everywhere. It comes along and finds you."

“Things that break: flowers. dawn. the ocean. our hearts. this is how gardens grow. this is how the sun blossoms. this is how we make it home.this is how welearn to love.”

"Let me be your bad habit!"

"I’m here. I love you. I don’t care if you need to stay up crying all night long, I will stay with you. There’s nothing you can ever do to lose my love. I will protect you until you die, and after your death I will still protect you. I am stronger than Depression and I am braver than Loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me."

"If you want to forget something or someone, never hate it, or never hate him/her. Everything and everyone that you hate is engraved upon your heart; if you want to let go of something, if you want to forget, you cannot hate."

"Recognize how you hurt people not just how people hurt you."

"My words mean nothing to you. People like you can’t be reached. I wonder whether your madness isn’t the worst kind. You act healthy, act it so well that everyone believes you… everyone except me, because I know how rotten you are."

"Now I'm in one world. Now in the other."

"Since I was a kid, I noticed that making other people happy made me happy. I'd literally do anything I could just to make the people I care about laugh or smile. I'm still like that—but it's different. I still urge to please people and to brighten up their day, but instead of feeling joyful I feel sadness. Maybe because I know no one goes to those extents to make me smile, no one asks if I'm ok, no one can see through the smile on my face and look deep into my soul. It saddens me, but I never want to express that to anyone because I put them first. I always have."

"You cannot make everyone think and feel as deeply as you do. This is your tragedy. Because you understand them, but they do not understand you."

"Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly."

"The most frightening moment of my life was when I realized I was not scared of dying because my life had no meaning, no purpose. I had always been afraid of the dark, and I still am to this day, but a few years ago it simply disappeared. I would walk around my house in complete darkness as if I was always able to do so. I also had no fear of 'real' things like being mugged or accidents. If death or danger came to me I wouldn't fight, I would simply accept it. I have found purpose again and my fears and phobias have found their way back as well, but I think it's funny that the scariest moment in my life was when I wasn't scared at all."

"so many years of education yet nobody ever taught us how to love ourselves and why it's so important."

"The greatest love in this world is living inside you. Don’t let them tell you it is for someone else."

"I am cruel, for breaking your heart because I'm too afraid that you'll break mine."

"The more I know of the world, the more am I convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!"

"I think it's important that people don't feel alone."

"Você é uma mistura de peso e leveza tão bem colocada, com um contraste tão evidente. É impressionante."

"'What we fear in the dark and what lies beyond the darkness.' 'What the hell are you talking about?' 'I'm talking about seeing beyond fear. About looking at the world with love.'"

"I was the sun and he was the moon; I was a desert and he was an island; I was war and he was peace; I was disaster and he was beauty; I was sorrow and he was happiness; I was death and he was life; He was my salvation, I was his destruction."

"I learned that love is a choice and a commitment to an imperfect person. It is complete acceptance of both light and darkness."

"The first time I saw you It hit me like a lightning That you were going to wreck me so bad I'd be irreparable And that, there, Was my only dream: to be wrecked by you, For you were such an immense force Driven by will power and the fear of being alone You so often talked about"

"Destroy the idea that men should respect women because we are their daughters, mothers, and sisters. Reinforce the idea that men should respect women because we are people."

"But at some point you have to stop being so angry, you have to stop being so sad, you have to stop killing yourself and start being gentle with yourself. At some point you have to just let it all go and be happy, you have to spread love instead of being afraid of it. You have to love yourself and everyone around you before its too late. Don't waste away being unhappy over trivial things dear. Don't do it. Don't do it to yourself and don't let other people do it to you."

"We assume others show love the same way we do — and if they don’t, we worry it’s not there."

"Love and violence are closely connected, two faces of one coin. After all, what is love if not an extreme violence of emotion? And what is violence if not an expression of the inability to love properly ... or even more worrying, an expression of the ability to love improperly?"

"you are most beautiful; whenever you are most comfortable. whenever you are most, you."

"I think I’m afraid to be happy because whenever I get too happy, something bad always happens."

"Be happy for no reason, like a child. If you are happy for a reason, you’re in trouble, because that reason can be taken from you."

"I don’t think that people accept the fact that life doesn’t make sense. I think it makes people terribly uncomfortable."

"What an absurd amount of energy I have been wasting all my life trying to find out how things 'really are', when all the time they weren't."

"Stars are not small or gentle.

They are writhing and dying and burning.

They are not here to be pretty.

I am trying to learn from them."

“Sometimes it feels better not to talk. At all. About anything. To anyone.”

"When a flower doesn't bloom you fix the environment in which it grows, not the flower."

"Easy advice is not helpful, actually the ideal approach would be no advice at all. If we care about someone that is struggling, we should just be there."

“Suddenly, I don't know what to say. It happens often to me. I know what I want to say, I think about whether it is what I mean, but when the moment comes to speak, I can't say it.”

"I am underwater and my heartbeats make circles on the surface."

"Behind

the scrolling face

there is

a real skull

and in the skull

a word"

“It's easy to look at people and make quick judgments about them, their present and their past, but you'd be amazed at the pain and tears a single smile hides. What a person shows to the world is only one tiny facet of the iceberg hidden from sight. And more often then not, it's lined with cracks and scars that go all the way to the foundation of their soul.”

"Watch out for intellect,

because it knows so much it knows nothing

and leaves you hanging upside down,

mouthing knowledge as your heart

falls out of your mouth."

"In one sense I was my war; my war was I; without it I should do nothing and be nothing."

“The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.”

"When I look at you, I can see the person you used to be drowning in the person you are. And it makes me nostalgic and sad because I know when you look at me, you must see the same thing.”

"Your worst battle is between what you know and how you feel."

"I think I’m afraid to be happy because whenever I get too happy, something bad always happens."

"I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it."

"We have to work twice as hard as men. We have to be twice as good to prove that we are worthy of degrees."

“A number of neurotic ancestors, combined with with persistent, unresolved terrors of childhood, had deprived me of the comfortable gift of natural courage.”

"I have much to live for, yet unaccountably I am sick and sad."

“In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they’re still beautiful.”

"There is so much pain, and I don't know how to not notice it. It never stops."

"You do not owe beauty to anyone.

Do not apologize for your unmade-up face.

Do not apologize for your looks period.

Do not justify a person’s critique of your appearance even if you are going to change it.

Do not allow people to feel as if they get a say in how you feel about yourself.

You are allowed to not try and not care.

You are allowed to feel ugly and not care.

You are entitled to be unapologetic.

And you are beautiful always."

"That was one of the saddest things about people—their most important thoughts and feelings often went unspoken and barely understood."

"And what’s the use of talking, if you already know that others don’t feel what you feel?"

“But people do things to survive, and then after they survive, they can’t live with what they’ve done.”

"I am so tired. I feel myself drifting, away, a little by little. I am overcome by the sensation that I am crumbling, parts of my being drifting away."

“I don’t know if you’ve ever felt like that. That you wanted to sleep for a thousand years. Or just not exist. Or just not be aware that you do exist. Or something like that. I think wanting that is very morbid, but I want it when I get like this. That’s why I’m trying not to think. I just want it all to stop spinning.”

“Sometimes people use thought to not participate in life.”

“Try to be a filter, not a sponge.”

"It’s much easier not to know things sometimes.”

"She's letting out her feelings. The scary thing is not being able to do that. When your feelings build up and harden and die inside, then you're in big trouble.” "

"Why do I write. Perhaps in order not to go mad. Or, on the contrary, to touch the bottom of madness."

“This year taught me that my loneliness has more to do with myself than anyone else. The loneliest I will ever be is when I do not have the strength to love myself.”

"The saddest end to a relationship is one where you have to break up with somebody when you’re still in love with them. It sounds bizarre but it happens, because the truth is, as powerful and as thrilling and as wonderful as it may be, love isn’t always enough and to be in love doesn’t always mean you’re happy. You can continue to love someone even after they’ve hurt you, but you know deep inside yourself that it won’t ever be the same again, so at some point, you have to let them go. When is the right time? You never know. That’s the sad part, too."

"The Earth is littered with the ruins of empires that believed they were eternal. "

"I think hell is something you carry around with you. Not somewhere you go"

"It is difficult for a woman to express her feelings in a language chiefly made by men to express theirs."

"You are the feeling of waking up early in a warm bed and realizing that you don’t have to get up. "

"Some people turn sad awfully young. No special reason, it seems, but they seem almost to be born that way. They bruise easier, tire faster, cry quicker, remember longer and, as I say, get sadder younger than anyone else in the world. I know, for I’m one of them."

"We worship perfection because we can’t have it; if we had it, we would reject it. Perfection is inhuman, because humanity is imperfect."

"Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.”

“Absence, the highest form of presence.”

"It was once said of Catcher in the Rye: That rare miracle of fiction has again come to pass. A human being has been created out of ink, paper and the imagination."

"Quirky, messy women whose problems only make them endearing are not real."

"You can tell a lot about a person by what's on their playlist."

"The forest will answer you in the way you call to it."

"If you truly love Nature, you will find beauty everywhere."

"Bear patiently, my heart - for you have suffered heavier things.”

"But my heart isn’t simple or straightforward. It’s a complicated mess of wants and needs…soft, rough, and everything in between, an ever-shifting precipice from which to fall."

"Sometimes I am two people. One is the nice one. The other causes all the trouble. They fight."

"The problem was I wanted to be yours, more than I ever wanted to be mine."

"You never really know people, even those you love."

"I love you too much to let you think that i can live without you."

"Eternal love doesn exist, not even in books. So loving means for a finite time"

"My winter days are spent forgetting you."

“I’m in a total love-sick mess.“

"I need to remember... Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world, I feel like I can't take it, and my heart is just going to cave in."

"It's a great thing when you realize you still have the ability to surprise yourself."

"This isn't life, it's just stuff. And it's become more important to you than living. Well, honey, that's just nuts."

"Everything that's meant to happen does."

"I did not know what was happening in my heart

"The monstrosity of what’s happening in your mind makes unfamiliar premises look familiar."

“Suddenly, all at once, she knows, knows that he doesn’t understand her, that he never will, that he lacks the power to understand such perverseness. And that he can never move fast enough to catch her.”

“We are, each of us, a little universe.”

“I discovered that I am tired of being a person. Not just tired of being the person I was, but any person at all.”

“I have wrapped myself round in my own personality again. How does it come about - these sudden,intense changes of view? Perhaps my life is unusually conscious: very vivid to me. But when I enter a complete world of its own, I realize that this is existing whether I exist or not; and so get bowled over.”

"I liked the idea—that we left pieces of ourselves everywhere we went, coloring all our important places."

"All the anxiety we bear with us, all our thwarted dreams, the incomprehensible cruelty, our fear of extinction, the painful insight into our earthly condition, have slowly eroded our hope of an other-wordly salvation. The howl of our faith and doubt against the darkness and silence, is one of the most awful proofs of our abandonment and our terrified, unuttered knowledge."

"Is it really important not to lie, to speak so that everything rings true? Can one live without lying and quibbling and making excuses? Isn't it better to be lazy and lax and deceitful? Perhaps you even improve by staying as you are."

"The important thing is the effort, not what we achieve."

“When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.”

"Can you be one and the same person at the same time?"

"Maybe you would be better if you allowed yourself to be what you are."

"I'll never be like you, I change all the time."

“Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves.”

“Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.”

“But when the strong were too weak to hurt the weak, the weak had to be strong enough to leave.”

“For there is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.”

“A person who longs to leave the place where he lives is an unhappy person.”

“There is no perfection only life”

“The only relationship that can make both partners happy is one in which sentimentality has no place and neither partner makes any claim on the life and freedom of the other.”

“Loves are like empires: when the idea they are founded on crumbles, they, too, fade away.”

“The goals we pursue are always veiled. A girl who longs for marriage longs for something she knows nothing about. The boy who hankers after fame has no idea what fame is. The thing that gives our every move its meaning is always totally unknown to us.”

“Flirting is a promise of sexual intercourse without a guarantee.”

“Perhaps all the questions we ask of love, to measure, test, probe, and save it, have the additional effect of cutting it short. Perhaps the reason we are unable to love is that we yearn to be loved, that is, we demand something (love) from our partner instead of delivering ourselves up to him demand-free and asking for nothing but his company.”

“Indeed, the only truly serious questions are ones that even a child can formulate. Only the most naive of questions are truly serious. They are the questions with no answers. A question with no answer is a barrier that cannot be breached. In other words, it is questions with no answers that set the limit of human possibilities, describe the boundaries of human existence.”

“Love is a battle," said Marie-Claude, still smiling. "And I plan to go on fighting. To the end." Love is a battle?" said Franz. "Well, I don't feel at all like fighting." And he left.”

“Indeed, the only truly serious questions are ones that even a child can formulate. Only the most naive of questions are truly serious. They are the questions with no answers. A question with no answer is a barrier that cannot be breached. In other words, it is questions with no answers that set the limit of human possibilities, describe the boundaries of human existence.”

“On the surface, an intelligible lie; underneath, the unintelligible truth.”

“Human life occurs only once, and the reason we cannot determine which of our decisions are good and which bad is that in a given situation we can make only one decision; we are not granted a second, third, or fourth life in which to compare various decisions.”

“The very beginning of Genesis tells us that God created man in order to give him dominion over fish and fowl and all creatures. Of course, Genesis was written by a man, not a horse. There is no certainty that God actually did grant man dominion over other creatures. What seems more likely, in fact, is that man invented God to sanctify the dominion that he had usurped for himself over the cow and the horse.”

“I have no mission. No one has.”

“Without realizing it, the individual composes his life according to the laws of beauty even in times of greatest distress.”

“We all reject out of hand the idea that the love of our life may be something light or weightless; we presume our love is what must be, that without it our life would no longer be the same; we feel that Beethoven himself, gloomy and awe-inspiring, is playing the “Es muss sein!” to our own great love.”

“The moment someone keeps an eye on what we do, we involuntarily make allowances for that eye, and nothing we do is truthful. Having a public, keeping a public in mind, means living in lies…”

“It isn't possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.”

“We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things; because the shadow always follows. Choose a place where you won't do harm - yes, choose a place where you won't do very much harm, and stand in it for all you are worth, facing the sunshine.”

“When I think of what life is, and how seldom love is answered by love; it is one of the moments for which the world was made.”

“This desire to govern a woman -- it lies very deep, and men and women must fight it together.... But I do love you surely in a better way then he does." He thought. "Yes -- really in a better way. I want you to have your own thoughts even when I hold you in my arms.”

“Life' wrote a friend of mine, 'is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.”

“It is so difficult - at least, I find it difficult - to understand people who speak the truth.”

"I prefer to stay in my dream world, in which I can believe in anything I want to, without limits, without judgements, full of love and meaning."

"I was fascinated by strangers, wanted to know what food they ate and what dishes they ate it from, what movies they watched and what music they listened to, wanted to look under their beds and in their secret drawers and night tables and inside the pockets of their coats."

"I know pretty much what I like and dislike; but please, don’t ask me who I am."

"I am too young and I’ve loved you too much."

"Stories matter. Many stories matter. Stories have been used to dispossess and to malign, but stories can also be used to empower and to humanize. Stories can break the dignity of a people, but stories can also repair that broken dignity."

"I sleep among ravishing illusions and wake to their burden."

"I don't know if I'm unhappy because I'm not free, or if I'm not free because I'm unhappy."

"between grief and nothing I'll take grief"

"It's sad to fall asleep. It separates people. Even when you're sleeping together, you're all alone."

"When we talked, I talked about me, you talked about you, when we should have talked about each other."

"I told you being afraid is the worst sin there is."

“You're not right in the head, and nor am I, and this is why....this is why I like you.”

"I want to leave, to go somewhere where I should be really in my place, where I would fit in … but my place is nowhere; I am unwanted."

"I wanted to see you, to see if I’d want to see you."

"Being an artist means forever healing your own wounds and at the same time endlessly exposing them."

"A girl should be two things: who and what she wants."

"I’m always soft for you, that’s the problem. You could come knocking on my door five years from now and I would open my arms wider and say ‘come here, it’s been too long, it felt like home with you."

"Artists are people driven by the tension between the desire to communicate and the desire to hide."

"I think we're just gonna to have to be secretly in love with each other and leave it at that, Richie."

"Royal Tenenbaum's epitaph: Royal O'Reilly Tenenbaum 1932-2001 Died Tragically Rescuing His Family From The Wreckage Of A Destroyed Sinking Battleship"

"I'm going to kill myself tomorrow."

"When dealing with myself I am powerless."

"We do not live, we only lead a semblance of life; we can only think of how to keep from dying, and our whole life is a death worship."

“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”

"You want everything so much and when you get it it’s over and you don’t give a damn."

"I'm an unstable psychotic individual with perverted tendencies."

“I’m not very good at giving anyone a clear no.”

"It was good, and nothing good is truly lost. It stays part of a person, becomes part of their character. So part of you goes everywhere with me. And part of me is yours, forever."

"Now more than ever do I realize that I will never be content with a sedentary life, that I will always be haunted by thoughts of a sun-drenched elsewhere.”

“shoutout to all those people who crave affection but have no idea how to react when it comes their way, to all those who were never taught how to love and feel rejected and misunderstood because they want to show that they care about other people but they don’t know how, to all those who use sarcasm as a defense mechanism and never talk about their problems to others and pretend everything is fine because they just don’t fucking know how to express their feelings and worries and emotions: you are important and valid and right now you might feel lonely and miserable but i swear it will get better and you will be happy and i believe in you and you should too.”

"You are so brave and quiet I forget you are suffering."

"…Many things interested her, and nothing satisfied her entirely."

“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk through my garden forever.”

"I used to imagine adventures for myself, I invented a life, so that I could at least exist somehow."

"Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live."

"But remember, there are two ways to dehumanize someone: by dismissing them, and by idolizing them."

"'Do you fall in love often?’ Yes often. With a view, with a book, with a dog, a cat, with numbers, with friends, with complete strangers, with nothing at all."

"People empty me. I have to get away to refill."

"In a relationship, you need somebody who’s going to call you out, not somebody who’s going to let everything slide. You need somebody who doesn’t want to live without you, but can. Not somebody that is dependent, but somebody who is stronger with you. A relationship is two people, not one."

"Somewhere, some place inside myself, I am detached. I have always been detached (in part). Always."

"Exactly. This is what you see when you're young. Everything seems really close. And that's the future. And now. And that's what you see when you're old. Everything seems really far away. That's the past."

"You've been watching too many movies, you idiot, you've forgotten what life is about."

"It doesn't make a difference! Men, artists, animals... plants! We're all just extras."

"Well, he once said intellectuals had no taste. And from that moment on, I did everything I could not to become an intellectual. And I succeeded."

"I don't know what the problem is. But I'm not going to try and cheer you up by lying. Or talk about things I never knew about."

"You can feel everything with your hands, can't you? We understand all sorts of things by touching. Who knows why people are so afraid of touching. Maybe it's because it has something to do with pleasure. That's just another great reason for touching instead of talking. Don't you like to talk? I never had anything to say."

"More and more, it feels like I’m doing a really bad impersonation of myself."

"I just heard this woman say “you procrastinate because you are afraid of rejection. It’s a defense mechanism; you are trying to protect yourself without even trying.” And I think I just realized what was wrong with me."

"To Quote out of context is the essence of he photographer's craft. His central problem is a simple one: What shall he include, what shall he reject? The line of decision between in and out is the picture's edge."

"She was struck by the simple truth that sometimes the most ordinary things could be made extraordinary, simply by doing them with the right people."

"Who's gonna be the one to save me from myself?"

"Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man."

"Nihilists! Fuck me. I mean, say what you want about the tenets of National Socialism, Dude, at least it's an ethos."

"Even when I detach, I care. You can be separate from a thing and still care about it."

"Sometimes there is no darker place than our own thoughts; the moonless midnight of the mind."

"Do you ever miss yourself? The person you were before you had your first heartbreak or before you got betrayed by a person you trusted?"

"One does not walk into the forest and accuse the trees of being off-center, nor do they visit the shore and call the waves imperfect. So why do we look at ourselves this way?"

"I believe that two people are connected at the heart, and it doesn't matter what you do, or who you are or where you live; there are no boundaries or barriers if two people are destined to be together."

"Well, Greg, I think that it just means that even after somebody dies, you can.. you can still keep learning about them. You know, their life. It can keep unfolding itself to you just as long... just as long as you pay attention to it."

“One thing I've learned about people is that the easiest way to get them to like you is to shut up and let them do the talking.”

“The best ideas are always the simplest.”

“I might accidentally become like a hermit or a terrorist or something.”

"I read once that the ancient Egyptians had fifty words for sand & the Eskimos had a hundred words for snow. I wish I had a thousand words for love, but all that comes to mind is the way you move against me while you sleep & there are no words for that."