• http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/4379.Sylvia_Plath
• ““What is my life for and what am I going to do with it? I don't know and I'm afraid.I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life. And I am horribly limited.” ― Sylvia Plath

“Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.” ― Sylvia Plath

• "What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age." — Sylvia Plath
• "Remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to become acutely aware of all I've taken for granted"
• Orestes: Neither slave nor master. I am my freedom. No sooner had you created me than I ceased to be yours. - Jean-Paul Sarte
• Is it really that bad if someone sees who you are? Why is it humans have a problem with letting someone else see that they are human? -Joseph Gogler
• Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment. -Lao Tzu
• I see men assassinated around me every day. I walk through rooms of the dead, streets of the dead, cities of the dead; men without eyes, men without voices; men with manufactured feelings and standard reactions; men with newspaper brains, television souls and high school ideas. -Charles Bukowski
• "I wanted the whole world or nothing." Charles Bukowski
• Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win. -William Shakespeare
• We are all masters of our own destiny. We can so easily make the same mistakes over and over. We can so easliy flee from everything that we desire and which life so generously places before us.Alternately, we can surrender ourselves to Divine Providence, take God’s hand, and fight for our dreams, believing that they always arrive at the right moment. -Brida by Paulo Coelho
• My life looks as if it had been wasted for want of chances! When I see what you know, what you have read, and seen, and thought, I feel what a nothing I am! -Tess of the D’urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
• I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death. -Robert Fulghum (All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten)
• Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around." - Leo Buscaglia
• "I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul." -Pablo Neruda
• There are so many fragile things, after all. People break so easily, and so do dreams and hearts. -Neil Gaiman
• If I’d been somone else in a different world I’d’ve done something different, but I was myself and the world was the world, so I was silent. -Johnathan//

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

• How glorious it is - and also how painful - to be an exception. -Alfred De Musset
• And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain ways, they can’t ever be fixed, and this is something nobody ever tells you when you are young and it never fails to surprise you as you grow older as you see the people in your life break one by one. You wonder when your turn is going to be, or if it’s already happened. -Douglas Coupland
• "August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. the odd uneven time." -Sylvia Plath
• "I give myself very good advice, but I very seldom follow it" -alice in wonderland
• Crying is all right in its own way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do. -C.S. Lewis
• Don’t leave it all unsaid, somewhere in the wasteland of your head. -Steven Patrick Morrissey
• I was just wondering whose silver tongue or golden pen is telling the tale we find ourselves in. -Dennis L. McKiernan
• Never memorize something that you can look up.' - Albert Einstein
• "Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee

And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me." — Robert Frost

• If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you’re a one-eyed man in the kingdom of the blind." -Kurt Vonnegut
• "You say that you love rain, but you open your umbrella when it rains. You say that you love the sun, but you find a shadow spot when the sun shines. You say that you love the wind, but you close your windows when wind blows. This is why I am afraid, you say that you love me too."
• "thoughts could leave deeper scarring than almost anything else."jk rowling
• “It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all - in which case, you fail by default.”

― J.K. Rowling

• “The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.”― Ralph Waldo Emerson
• “For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.”
• “Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.” ― Oscar Wilde
• “Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”
• ❝When you’re depressed, your self esteem is at absolute zero. To stand up from the sofa and walk to the fridge is an act of unbelievable effort. Everything that happens is because you are a cunt. It’s because I’m a wanker, it’s because I’m an arsehole. You sort of have a Tourette view of yourself. You think about death all the time. Even if you’re not feeling suicidal, you’re just constantly aware of death and aware of your own death and how welcome it would be." - stephen fry
• If you know someone who’s depressed please resolve never to ask them why. Depression isn’t a straightforward response to a bad situation, depression just is, like the weather. Try to understand the blackness, lethargy, hopelessness and loneliness they’re going through. Be there for them when they come through the otherside. It’s hard to be a friend to someone who’s depressed, but it is one of the kindest, noblest and best things you will ever do.
• I can remember at school how we would read together in class an Ode by Keats, a Shakespeare sonnet or a chapter of Animal Farm. I would tingle inside and want to sob, just at the words, at nothing more than the simple progression of sounds. But when it came to writing that thing called an Essay, I flubbed and floundered. I could never discover where to start. How do you find the distance and the cool to write in an academically approved style about something that makes you spin, wobble and weep? "Making History, by Stephen Fry
• I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can’t see from the center. -Kurt Vonnegut
• "For you, I was a chapter. For me, you were the book" -Tom Mcneal
• "And Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. So she was turned to a pillar of salt. So it goes."- Kurt Vonnegut|Slaughterhouse Five
• But even so, every now and then I would feel a violent stab of loneliness. The water I drink, the air I breathe would feel like long, sharp needles. The pages of a book in my hands would take on the threatening gleam of razor blades. I could hear the roots of loneliness creeping through me when the world was hushed at four o’clock in the morning.
• Among other things, you’ll find that you’re not the first person who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior. You’re by no means alone on that score, you’ll be excited and stimulated to know. Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. You’ll learn from them- if you want to. Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It’s a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn’t education. It’s history. It’s poetry. -jd salinger, catcher in the rye