- And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about. — Haruki Murakami
- I think you need an adventure, one with a wild laugh — B.E. Barnes
- 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. — Daniel Saint
- I wish they would take me as I am — Vincent van Gogh
- I'm not afraid of being lost. We all wander off from time to time. It's the fear of never quite finding myself that keeps me up at night. — Sylvia Plath
- To my children, I will say, "Fill your skin with kindness and find solace in your solitude. It takes bravery to be kind. But to be brave you will need to know how to stand for something even if you're completely alone" — Nikita Gill
- I tell myself I am searching for something. But more and more it feels like I am wandering, waiting for something to happen to me, something that will change everything, something that my whole life hass been leading up to. — Khaled Hosseini
- I'm just tired; I just the world to be quiet for a bit. — Matt Healy
- I feel strong. Not strong enough to face myself, but strong enough to keep going. — James Frey
- I stopped telling myself that I'm lost. I'm not.I'm on a road with no destination, I'm just driving with hope that I'll find a place that I like and I'll stay there. I'm not lost, I'm on my way. — Ahunnaya
- Strength, strength is what I want. Strength not to endure, I have that and it has made me weak — but strength to act — Susan Sontag
- A not admitting of the wound | Until it grew so wide | That all my | Life had Entered it — Emily Dickinson
- People do not see you, | They invent you and accuse you. — Hélène Cixous
- Start now. Start where you are. Start with fear. Start with pain. Start with doubt. Start with hands shaking. Start with voice trembling but start. Start and don’t stop. Start where you are, with what you have. Just … start. — Ijeoma Umebinyuo
- And this urge to run away from what I love is a sort of sadism I no longer pretend to understand. — Martha Gellhorn
- Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you allows your soul room to grow. Never expect to outgrow loneliness. Never hope to find people who will understand you, someone to fill that space. An intelligent, sensitive person is the exception, the very great exception. If you expect to find people who will understand you, you will grow murderous with disappointment. The best you’ll ever do is to understand yourself, know what it is that you want, and not let the cattle stand in your way. — Janet Finch
- Don’t look away. Look straight at everything. Look it all in the eye, good and bad. — Henry Miller
- After the fourth or fifth time she knew she had to make a decision: did she want to live or did she want to die? If die, there were quicker ways. If live, she had to live differently. — Margaret Atwood
- I’ll have to be all by myself, forever. I’ve missed the life that was supposed to be mine. I’ve shut myself off from it. — Margaret Atwood
- This morning I am wonderfully peaceful. Just like a storm that has spent itself. — Virginia Woolf
- There is a certain terror that goes along with saying, “My life is up to me.” It is scary to realize there’s no magic, you can’t just wait around, no one can really rescue you, and you have to do something. — Meg Jay
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