- "Approach me, so I can show you my vast loneliness." (Forough Farrokhzad)
- "Delay is the deadliest form of denial." (C. Northcote Parkinson)
- "Don’t be concerned about being disloyal to your pain by being joyous." (Hazrat Inayat Khan)
- "Find what you love and let it kill you." (Charles Bukowski)
- "Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time." (Maya Angelou)
- "He who has a why to live can bear almost any how." (Friedrich Nietzsche)
- "I am a misery without you. So don’t, I beg, be foolish walking over mountains. If you break a leg, I break my heart, remember." (Virginia Woolf)
- "I am getting so far out one day I won’t come back at all." (William S. Burroughs)
- "I am I, and I wish I wasn’t." (Bernard Marx)
- "I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship." (Louisa May Alcott)
- "I do not forgive myself for being born. It is as if creeping into this world, I had profaned a mystery, betrayed some momentous pledge, committed a fault of nameless gravity." (E.M. Cioran)
- "I don’t just want your heart. I want your flesh, your skin and blood and bones, your voice, your thoughts, your pulse and most of all your fingerprints, everywhere." (Isobel Thrilling)
- "I hate slick and pretty things. I prefer mistakes and accidents. Which is why I like things like cuts and bruises – they’re like little flowers. I’ve always said that if you have a name for something, like ‘cut’ or ‘bruise,’ people will automatically be disturbed by it. But when you see the same thing in nature, and you don’t know what it is, it can be very beautiful." (David Lynch)
- "I have so much of you in my heart." (John Keats)
- "I have this strange feeling that I’m not myself anymore. It’s hard to put into words, but I guess it’s like I was fast asleep, and someone came, disassembled me, and hurriedly put me back together again. That sort of feeling." (Haruki Murakami)
- "I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul." (Jean Cocteau)
- "I said that love heals from inside.” (Yusef Komunyakaa)
- "I used to think it was mere homesickness, then I started getting it at home." (John Lennon)
- "I usually solve problems by letting them devour me." (Franz Kafka)
- "I will kiss your scars as you heal, I will sit by your side and hold your hand. I will write invisible secrets and paragraphs and maybe a book into your skin at night, while you sleep warm next to me." (Unknown)
- "I’m nobody. I don’t know how to feel or think or love. I’m a character in a novel as yet unwritten, hovering in the air and undone before I’ve even existed, amongst the dreams of someone who never quite managed to breathe life into me." (Fernando Pessoa)
- "If I were to be totally sincere, I would say that I do not know why I live and why I do not stop living. The answer probably lies in the irrational character of life which maintains itself without reason." (E.M. Cioran)
- "If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking." (Haruki Murakami)
- "Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always." (Rainer Maria Rilke)
- "Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible." (Carl Jung)
- "Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing." (Anaïs Nin)
- "Of course I’ll hurt you. Of course you’ll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of existence. To become spring, means accepting the risk of winter. To become presence, means accepting the risk of absence." (The Little Prince)
- "One night they fell asleep, side by side. He slept curled upon her back; a dark comma against her pale, elegant phrase." (A.S. Byatt)
- "She said she knew she was able to fly because when she came down she always had dust on her fingers from touching the light bulbs." (J.D. Salinger)
- "The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
- "To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves." (Federico García Lorca)
- "We’re both looking at the same moon, in the same world. We’re connected to reality by the same line. All I have to do is quietly draw it towards me." (Haruki Murakami)
- "What if our hearts could be connected like constellations?" (A. Ryutaro)
- "You can’t just make me different and then leave." (John Green)
- "You’re not dead, but you’re not alive either. You’re a ghost with a beating heart." (Laurie Halse Anderson)
- “A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.” (Charles Bukowski)
- “Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves. so anyone who’s in love gets sad when they think of their lover. it’s like stepping back inside a room you have fond memories of, one you haven’t seen in a long time.” (Haruki Murakami)
- “Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. thousands of little kids, and nobody’s around — nobody big, i mean — except me. And I’m standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. what I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff — I mean if they’re running and they don’t look where they’re going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That’s all I’d do all day. I’d just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it’s crazy, but that’s the only thing I’d really like to be. I know it’s crazy.” (The catcher in the rye, J.D. Salinger)
- “Birds scream at the top of their lungs in horrified hellish rage every morning at daybreak to warn us all of the truth, but sadly we don’t speak bird.” (Kurt Cobain)
- “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.” (Silvia Plath)
- “Death is not the problem; waiting around for it is.” (Charles Bukowski)
- “Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.” (Oscar Wilde)
- “everyone, deep in their hearts, is waiting for the end of the world to come.” (1Q84, Haruki Murakami)
- “Everything begins only to end. The moment you were born you began to die. That’s how it is with everything.” (Janne Teller)
- “Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.” (Albert Camus)
- “Going to another country doesn’t make any difference. I’ve tried all that. You can’t get away from yourself by moving from one place to another. There’s nothing to that.” (Ernest Hemingway)
- “Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.” (Tennessee Williams)
- “I am sad and have a passion for unknown, distant places. I want to see the world. And I would love it, if I just had the chance to get away for a little while. But sadly, things aren’t that easy; desire won’t change a thing.” (Abraham Alghanem)
- “I am sad and have a passion for unknown, distant places. I want to see the world. And I would love it, if I just had the chance to get away for a little while. But sadly, things aren’t that easy; desire won’t change a thing.” (Abraham M. Alghanem=
- “I can’t even talk about you to anybody because I don’t want any more people to know how wonderful you are.” (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
- “I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.” (Mark Twain)
- “I feel so strange. Don’t you ever feel that way? When I can’t see myself in the mirror, I can’t even feel myself, and I begin to wonder if I really exist at all.” (Jean-Paul Sartre)
- “I kept thinking how marvelous it would be if I could somehow tear my heart, which felt so heavy, out of my chest.” (Anton Chekhov)
- “I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.” (Tom Waits)
- “I took no pride in my solitude; but i was dependent on it. The darkness of the room was like sunlight to me.”
- “I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it — to be fed so much love I couldn’t take any more. Just once.” (Haruki Murakami)
- “I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.” (Audrey Hepburn)
- “I would die for her. I would kill for her. Either way, what bliss.” (Gomez Addams)
- “I’ve tried so many times to think of a new way to say it— and it’s still I love you— love you— love you.” (Zelda Fitzgerald)
- “If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.” (C.S. Lewis)
- “If you feel strongly about someone, go up to them. Pursue what you want in life. Why be shy about something like that?” (Yohji Yamamoto)
- “If you must quote me, remember
- “If you remember me, then i don’t care if everyone else forgets.” (Kafka on the shore, Haruki Murakami)
- “In a strange way, I had fallen in love with my depression. I loved it because I thought it was all I had. I thought depression was the part of my character that made me worthwhile. I thought so little of myself, felt that I had such scant offerings to give to the world, that the one thing that justified my existence at all was my agony.” (Elizabeth Wurtzel)
- “In the end, everyone loses everyone.” (Jonathan Safran Foer)
- “It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.” (Agnes Repplier)
- “It is unbearably painful for the soul to love silently.” (Anna Akhmatova)
- “It’s a most distressing affliction to have a sentimental heart and a skeptical mind.” (Nalgub Mahfouz)
- “Love who you love while you have them. That’s all you can do. Let them go when you must. If you know how to love, you’ll never run out.” (Ann Brashares)
- “May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.” (Franz Kafka)
- “Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.” (John Steinbeck)
- “My life was sweeter than other people’s and my death will be more terrible by the same degree.” (Franz Kafka)
- “My past is everything I failed to be.” (Fernando Pessoa)
- “Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly." (Morticia Addams)
- “Ñove is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers’ eyes. being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers’ tears. What is it else? a madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.” (William Shakespeare)
- “People will kill you over time, and how they’ll kill you is with tiny, harmless phrases, like: ‘be realistic.’” (Dylan Moran)
- “She was extending a hand that I didn’t know how to take, so I broke its fingers with my silence.” (Jonathan Safran Foer)
- “Sometimes I feel so—I don’t know—lonely. The kind of helpless feeling when everything you’re used to has been ripped away. Like there’s no more gravity, and I’m left to drift in outer space. With no idea where I’m headed.” (Haruki Murakami)
- “Sometimes there is no darker place than our own thoughts; the moonless midnight of the mind.” (Dean Koontz)
- “The bravest thing I ever did was continuing my life when I wanted to die.” (Juliette Lewis)
- “The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.” (Charles Bukowski)
- “The thing about life is that you must survive. Life is going to be difficult, and dreadful things will happen. What you do is move along, get on with it, and be tough. Not in the sense of being mean to others, but being tough with yourself and making a deadly effort not to be defeated.” (Katherine Hepburn)
- “The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.” (Mark Twain)
- “There are some things about myself I can’t explain to anyone. There are some things I don’t understand at all. I can’t tell what I think about things or what I’m after. I don’t know what my strengths are or what I’m supposed to do about them. But if I start thinking about these things in too much detail the whole thing gets scary. And if I get scared I can only think about myself. I become really self-centred, and without meaning to, I hurt people. So I’m not such a wonderful human being.” (Haruki Murakami)
- “There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another. Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss. It is necessary to have wished for death, in order to know how good life is to live.” (Edmund Dantes)
- “We know there’s going to be nothing but pain, but we go back again and again.” (Christopher Moore)
- “What am I doing here in this endless winter?” (Franz Kafka)
- “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.” (Milan Kundera)
- “When I speak, my every word speaks of you.And when silent, silently I ache for you.” (Rābiʿah al-Baṣrī)
- “When sadness was the sea, you were the one that taught me to swim.”
- “When your beauty struck me, it dissolved me. Deep down, I am not different from you. I dreamed you, I wished for your existence. I see in you that part of me which is you. I surrender my sincerity because if I love you it means we share the same fantasies, we share the same madness.” (Anaïs Nin)
- “Why can’t I try on on different lives, like dresses, to see which one fits best?” (Sylvia Plath)
- “Why do people want to pretend that death is sleep? It isn’t. It isn’t.” (Veronica Roth)
- “You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.” (Franz Kafka)
- “You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you’ll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps your going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.” (John Green)
- “You’ll meet her. She’s very pretty, even though sometimes she’s sad for many days at a time. You’ll see, when she smiles, you’ll love her.” (Pan's labyrinth)
- “You’re not dead, but you’re not alive either. You’re a ghost with a beating heart.”
sep 23 2012 ∞
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