- Yet each day, he managed to unravel and straighten himself, disgusted and thankful. Wrecked, but somehow not torn into pieces. The Book Thief
- Fear is a manipulative emotion that can trick us into living a boring life. A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life
- I think that it’s probably this one that’s causing my problem, because it’s this one I need the most. Cold Embers
- I think too much. I think ahead. I think behind. I think sideways. I think it all. If it exists, I’ve fucking thought of it.
- I'm not dumb. I'm just choosing not to be smart at the moment. Summer Heights High
- …I’m someone who’s mostly dead inside but still has a little hope for something extraordinary, which, as I said, is the worst breed of human, because it means I know everything is bullshit, but that I secretly hope for the day when it might not be. Nick Miller, New Girl
- This is why you should never, ever get your hopes up. This is why you should see the glass as half empty. So when the whole thing spills, you aren’t as devastated. Emily Giffin, Something Borrowed
- I wanted to explain that I am constantly overestimating and underestimating the human race - that rarely do I ever simply estimate it. I wanted to ask her how the same thing could be so ugly and so glorious, and its words and stories so damning and brilliant. The Book Thief
- Who hasn’t asked himself, am I a monster or is this what it means to be human? Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star
- Kill one man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill them all, and you are a god. Jean Rostand, Thoughts of a Biologist
- You are not your job or school, haircut or t-shirt, your race, religion or creed . You are not even your friends. You, at your most basic, are that strange little spark that makes you different . Don’t ever let anyone blow it out. Pete Wentz
- We met for a reason, either you’re a blessing or a lesson. Frank Ocean
- I find you in storms, I feel you in the lightning, I miss you in rain. Tyler Knott Gregson
- I wish more people cared about the earth as much as they cared about who they believed created it.
- I like my coffee how I like myself: Brown, bitter, and too hot for you.
- You are a chapter in my book, but I’m merely a sentence in yours
- Seeing someone read a book you love is seeing a book recommend a person. Reddit User
- Next time someone says to you, ‘if I were you’, stop them and say ‘well you aren’t’. Kanye West
- I’m a paradox. I want to be happy, but I think of things that make me sad. I’m lazy, yet I’m ambitious. I don’t like myself, but I also love who I am. I say I don’t care, but I really do. I crave attention, but reject it when it comes my way. I’m a conflicted contradiction. If I can’t figure myself out, there’s no way anyone else has.
- Hell is loving you in my sleep and waking up alone.
- We worship perfection because we can’t have it; if we had it, we would reject it. Perfection is inhuman, because humanity is imperfect. Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
- There are stars in your dark side brighter than the sun. Andrea Gibson
- Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable. Bansky
- Its hard to wait around for something you know might never happen; but its harder to give up when you know its everything you want.
- The world outside is cruel and beautiful at the same time. Honig, In My Drunken Head
- "What would you do if i died today?" "I’d die tomorrow."
- You’d be surprised what lengths people will go to not to face what’s real and painful inside them. My Mad Fat Diary
- Two things prevent us from happiness; living in the past and observing others.
- Love is different. Love is when you are as concerned about someone else’s situation as you are about your own. Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie
- It would be too easy to say that I feel invisible. Instead, I feel painfully visible, and entirely ignored. David Levithan, Every Day
- Silence is golden. Words are vibrations. Thoughts, are magic.
- If you love something, let it go. If you don't love something, definitely let it go. Basically just drop everything, who cares. BJ Novak
- You are the moon of my life. That is all I know. And all I need to know. And if this is a dream, I will kill the man who tries to wake me. Khal Drogo
- No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite. Nelson Mandela
- There’s a difference between loving the idea of someone and actually loving who they really are. White Collar
- You are not weak. You are just living in the idea that you are.
- We waste so many days waiting for weekend. So many nights wanting morning. Our lust for future comfort is the biggest thief of life. Joshua Glenn Clark
- I have lived in my body for years and still need maps and lights to find my way to how I feel. Michelle K., Body of Maps
- Destroy my desires, eradicate my ideals, show me something better, and I will follow you. Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from the Underground
- Part of me wants to be seven and careless. Part of me wants to be back in your bed. Part of me wants to be forty and settled. Part of me wants to be dead. Writings for Winter
- We look up at the same stars, and see such different things. George R. R. Martin, A Storm of Swords
- There comes a time when you have to stop crossing oceans for people who wouldn’t even jump puddles for you.
- If they respect you, respect them. If they disrespect you, still respect them. Do not allow the actions of others to decrease your good manners, because you represent yourself, not others. Mohammad Zeyara
- We’re stronger in the places that we’ve been broken. Ernest Hemingway
- Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens. J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
- If there is a God, He will have to beg my forgiveness. A phrase that was carved on the walls of a concentration camp cell during WWII by a Jewish prisoner
- I am a collection of dismantled almosts. Anne Sexton, from A Self-Portrait In Letters
- People with dark souls have nothing but dark dreams. People with really dark souls do nothing but dream. Haruki Murakami
- We all change. When you think about it, we're all different people all through our lives, and that's okay, that's good, you've got to keep moving, so long as you remember all the people that you used to be. I will never forget one line of this. Not one day. I swear. Eleven (Matt Smith)
- Hearts are wild creatures, that's why our ribs are cages
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