• Sober or drunk, it’s always you.
  • The three saddest things are the ill wanting to be well, the poor wanting to be rich, and the constant traveler saying ‘anywhere but here’. E.E. Cummings
  • Morality is a personal matter. Brad Warner, Sex, Sin, and Zen
  • I think I am surviving in all the wrong ways. wtm, ten word poem
  • I didn’t fail the test. I just found 100 ways to do it wrong. Benjamin Franklin
  • Between me and life is a faint glass. No matter how sharply I see and understand life, I cannot touch it. Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
  • You’re not in love with me, not really, you just love the way I always made you feel. Like you were the centre of my world. Because you were. I would have done anything for you. Abby McDonald, Getting Over Garrett Delaney
  • Please waste your time on me. Six Word Story
  • One. Do not promise when you’re happy. Two. When you are angry, do not respond. Three. Do not decide when you’re sad. Wisdom
  • Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time. Thomas Edison
  • I am sad and angry and I want everyone to be alive again. I want more landmarks, less landmines. I want to be grateful but I’m having a hard time with it. Richard Siken, Editor’s Pages: Black Telephone
  • Silence is worse; all truths that are kept silent become poisonous. Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Dress your heart and mind in what you love, fill your eyes with wonder and chase the things that inspire and delight you. For in you, is where I still live. Iain S. Thomas, I Wrote This For You
  • 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. Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Thinking is my fighting. Virginia Woolf, in her essay Thoughts on Peace in an Air Raid, dated 15 May 1940.
  • There is no remedy for love but to love more. Henry David Thoreau
  • I have a very childlike rage, and a very childlike loneliness. Richey Edwards
  • Someone asked me what home was and all I could think of were the stars on the tip of your tongue, the flowers sprouting from your mouth, the roots entwined in the gaps between your fingers, the ocean echoing inside of your ribcage. e.e. cummings
  • Facing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face it. Joseph Conrad, Typhoon
  • The risk I took was calculated, but man, am I bad at math.
  • Some people are old at 18 and some are young at 90. Time is a concept that humans created. Yoko Ono, 1977
  • I was interested in everything and committed to nothing. Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram.
  • You are a sentence and I am a semicolon begging you to go on. Meghan Lynn, We Will be a Novel One Day
  • I have nothing to offer anyone except my own confusion. Jack Kerouac
  • Everything interests me, but nothing holds me. Fernando Pessoa
  • If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences. HP Lovecraft
  • I’m not really a happy person. It’s a question of temperament. I have a tendency toward melancholy. You can feel quite happily melancholic. Michael Haneke, from My Life (2009)
  • It’s more like a hell here but we feel fine. Chelsea Wolfe, from Numb As Winter
  • You’re in love with impossibility. Sophocles, from Antigone
  • My lover asks me: 'What is the difference between me and the sky?' The difference, my love, is that when you laugh, I forget about the sky. Nizar Qabbani, My Lover Asks Me
  • I am practicing being kind instead of right. Matthew Quick, Silver Linings Playbook
  • Who are we, who is each one of us, if not a combinatoria of experiences, information, books we have read, things imagined? Italo Calvino
  • And in the end, we were all just humans.. drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness. F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Never confuse a single failure for a final defeat. F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Wear your tragedies as armor, not shackles.
  • Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread. Richard Wright, Native Son
  • All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire. Edgar Allan Poe
  • Everyone has a 2 AM and a 2 PM personality.
  • I, a universe of atoms, an atom in the universe. Richard P Feynman
  • My nights are for overthinking, my mornings are for oversleeping.
  • Every life is a piece of music. Like music we are finite events, unique arrangements. Sometimes harmonious. Sometimes dissonant. Hannibal Lecter
  • In these dreams it’s always you: The boy in the sweatshirt, the boy on the bridge, the boy who always keeps me from jumping off the bridge. Oh, the things we invent when we are scared and want to be rescued. Richard Siken, I Had A Dream About You
  • I shiver, thinking how easy it is to be totally wrong about people, to see one tiny part of them and confuse it for the whole. Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall
  • My problem is that I fall in love with words, rather than actions. I fall in love with ideas and thoughts, instead of reality. And it will be the death of me.
  • Do not chase people. Be you and do your own thing and work hard. The right people who belong in your life will come to you, and stay. Wu Tang Clan
  • You are meant to fight. When you are sick, your body fights for its right to function. When you hold your breath, your body fights for its right to breathe. There are billions of tiny events—from the surface of your skin, down to the very cells of your body—that have to happen in order for you to be simply sitting here today. If your most minuscule parts haven’t given up yet, why should you?
  • I could start fires with what I feel for you.
  • Kindness isn’t kindness if you expect a reward. Francis Underwood
  • It seems like we are both pathetically insignificant, and miraculously important at the same time. The fact that you're here, in the midst of all this nothing, is pretty amazing when you stop and think about it. Josh Worth, If the Moon were only 1 Pixel
  • Never cut what you can untie. Robert Frost
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