- "(Tu) Tornas-te eternamente responsável por aquilo que cativas" // "You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed." - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- "You need to realize that the way you are feeling now will not be permanent." - r.h.
- "That didn’t happen, of course. Things never happened the way I imagined them." - John Green
- "A TV evening with the right person can be more erotic than sex with the wrong one." - Ville Valo
- "I have no mission. No one has. And it’s a terrific relief to realise you’re free, free of all missions." - "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" by Milan Kundera
- How we survive, is what makes us who we are and we are what we are until the day we die. - Rise Against lyrics
- "Your naked body should only belong to those who fall in love with your naked soul." - Charlie Chaplin
- "Solidão é aquilo que te faz escutar músicas tristes dos anos 80, tomar vários banhos e pensar demais."--
- “There is nothing in this world that can trouble you as much as your own thoughts.” --
- "It’s not my responsibility to be beautiful. I am not alive for that purpose. My existence is not to fulfill yours about how desirable you may find me." - Warsan Shire
- "But I tried, didn’t I? Goddamnit, at least I did that." - Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
- "From a very early time, I understood that I only learn from things I don't like. If you do things you like, you just do the same shit. You always fall in love with the wrong guy. Because there's no change. It's so easy to do things you like. But then, the thing is, when you're afraid of something, face it, go for it. You become a better human being." - What's the cost? - "Ah, a big one. Lots of loneliness, my dear. If you're a woman, it's almost impossible to establish a relationship. You're too much for everybody. It's too much. The woman always has to play this role of being fragile and dependent. And if you're not, they're fascinated by you, but only for a little while. And then they want to change you and crush you. And then they leave. So, lots of lonely hotel rooms, my dear." - Marina Abramović
- "Don’t be like everybody else. Have real opinions about real matters. I’ve met so many people who don’t know anything about anything.” — Ville Valo
- "Think of how many people have sat next to you on a bus, train, whatever. Now think how many people have sat next to you on purpose with their fingers crossed in hope that you’ll talk to them. I’m sure somebody has. There’s plenty of times when somebody’s seen you and hoped that you spoke to them, but you never did because you don’t have the guts and neither do they. Don’t go around thinking nobody likes you and that you’re not loved. There’s been plenty of times when a stranger has spotted you and thought “Oh, they’re just my type” but haven’t had the courage or confidence to open their mouth and initiate a conversation. The funny thing is, neither have you." --
- «Houvesse agora uma tempestade e o rio se reviravoltasse, em ondas tão altas que o barco não pudesse nunca atracar, e eu seria dispensado das cerimónias. Nem a morte de meu Avô aconteceria tanto. Quem sabe mesmo o Avô não chegasse nunca a ser enterrado? Ficaria sobrado em poeira, nuveado, sem aparência. Sobraria a terra escavada com um vazio sempre vago, na inútil espera do adiado cadáver. Mas não, a morte, essa viagem sem viajante, ali estava a dar-nos destino. E eu, seguindo o rio, eu mais minha intransitiva lágrima.» - in "Um Rio Chamado Tempo, Uma Casa Chamada Terra" de Mia Couto.
- «There is a dark side to religious devotion that is too often ignored or denied. As a means of motivating people to be cruel or inhumane - as a means of inciting evil, to borrow the vocabulary of the devout - there may be no more potent force than religion. When the subject of religiously inspired bloodshed comes up, many Americans immediately think of Islamic fundamentalism, which is to be expected in the wake of the September 11 attacks on New York and Washington. But men have been committing heinous acts in the name of God ever since mankind began believing in deities, and extremists exist within all religious. Muhammad is not the only prophet whose words have been used to sanction barbarism; history has not lacked for Christians, Jews, Hindus, Sikhs, and even Buddhists who have been motivated by scripture to butcher innocents. Plenty of these religious extremists have been homegrown, corn-fed Americans.» - in "Under the Banner of Heaven" by Jon Krakauer.
- "In the act of observing others, you may recognize yourself" - Neon Genesis Evangelion
- "My only relief is to sleep. When I'm sleeping, I'm not sad, I'm not angry, I'm not lonely, I'm nothing." ― Jillian Medoff, Hunger Point
- "They say, "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger"...I don't agree. Some things that didn't kill me, came so close that they're still damaging. They didn't make me better. Some things made me worse. And can't that be okay too? Can't some things just break you? This whole fucking world wants you to believe that admitting defeat makes you weak. For God's sake, bleed. And bleed openly. There can be pride in vulnerability. Honesty is maturity. And really, it's the things that did kill me, that made me." - J. Raymond
- "There are times when I am convinced I am unfit for any human relationship." in "Letters To Felice" by Franz Kafka
- “There are many ways of dying, the worst of them, is to continue living" - This Must Be The Place (2011)
- “Is it possible, in the final analysis, for one human being to achieve perfect understanding of another? We can invest enormous time and energy in serious efforts to know another person, but in the end, how close can we come to that person’s essence? We convince ourselves that we know the other person well,but do we really know anything important about anyone?” in "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle" de Haruki Murakami
- "The secret to happiness is freedom. And the secret to freedom is courage." - Thucydides
- "Entonces me pregunto: ¿Si aún cuando sé a quién estoy buscando no lo puedo encontrar, cómo voy a encontrar al que estoy buscando si ni siquiera sé cómo es?" - Sidewalls (2011)
- "How do you know what's real and what's not when the whole world is inside your head?" - The Tracey Fragments (2007)
- "My mother once told me that if a married couple puts a penny in a pot for every time they make love in the first year, and takes a penny out every time after that, they'll never get all the pennies out of the pot." - Anna Madrigal, Tales of the City, 1993
- "Não só nada é bom ou mau, mas é o pensamento que o faz assim, como também nada é absolutamente, excepto na medida em que o pensamento o fez assim" - Samuel Butler
- “My grandmother once told me never fall in love with the ones who give you butterflies, because butterflies are a sign of uncertainty and you find your self asking, do they like me? Instead fall in love with someone who makes you feel safe, calm and warm, that’s who you fall in love with.” - comentário num vídeo do Youtube
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