- Everything is more beautiful because we’re doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.
- “My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?”- David Mitchell
- “I believe there is another world waiting for us. A better world. And I'll be waiting for you there.”- Mitchell
- “You say you're 'depressed' - all i see is resilience. You are allowed to feel messed up and inside out. It doesn't mean you're defective - it just means you're human.”- Mitchell
- “We are only what we know, and I wished to be so much more than I was, sorely.”- Mitchell
- Not everything in this life can be excused, but a lot of things can be justified.
- “For me to say I wasn’t a genius, I would just be lying to you and to myself.”- Kanye West
- "I have my mother’s mouth and my father’s eyes; on my face they are still together."- Warsan Shire
- Work until your idols become your rivals.
- "On such sunny, sad mornings I always feel in my bones that there is a chance yet of my not being excluded from Heaven, and that salvation may be granted to me despite the frozen mud and horror in my heart."- Vladimir Nabokov
- "It’s not hard to decide what you want your life to be about. What’s hard, she said, is figuring out what you’re willing to give up in order to do the things you really care about."- Shauna Niequist
- "I wish I'd done everything on Earth with you"- Fitzgerald
- "He had on a dress suit and patent leather shoes, and I couldn’t keep my eyes off him, but every time he looked at me I had to pretend to be looking at the advertisement over his head. I was so excited that when I got into a taxi with him I didn’t hardly know I wasn’t getting into a subway train. All I kept thinking about, over and over, was ‘You can’t live forever; you can’t live forever.’"- Fitzgerald
- "He pointed at “Nothing”. I pointed at “Something”. Nobody pointed at “I love you”. There was no way around it. We could not climb over it, or walk until we found its edge. I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live. Because if I were able to live my life again, I would do things differently."- JSF
- "Does it break my heart, of course, every moment of every day, into more pieces than my heart was made of, I never thought of myself as quiet, much less silent, I never thought about things at all, everything changed, the distance that wedged itself between me and my happiness wasn’t the world, it wasn’t the bombs and burning buildings, it was me, my thinking, the cancer of never letting go, is ignorance bliss, I don’t know, but it’s so painful to think, and tell me, what did thinking ever do for me, to what great place did thinking ever bring me? I think and think and think, I’ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it."- JSF
- Scars are a reminder that the past was real.
- "It’s the oldest story in the world. One day, you’re 17 and you’re planning for someday. And then quietly, without you’re ever really noticing, someday is today. And then someday is yesterday. And this is your life."- Nathan Scott
- "I feel like my life is so scattered right now. Like it’s all the small pieces of paper and someone’s turned on the fan. But, talking to you makes me feel like the fan’s been turned off for a little bit. Like things could actually make sense. You completely unscatter me, and I appreciate that so much."- John Green
- I have to constantly remind myself how many good things there are in my life that aren’t you and how many things make me happy that have nothing to do with you.
- "There’s a loneliness that only exists in one’s mind. The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly."- Fitzgerald
- "She told me, “You stood in that living room, and you told us all what happened on that ship. With great confidence.” I wish I had that. I would kill to have something like that."- Michael Ondaatje
- "I’m too much of a coward to kill myself,” she whispered. “And too much of a coward to live.” She lifted her eyes. “Where do I go from here?"- The Pact
- "I never knew until that moment how bad it could hurt to lose something you never really had."- The Wonder Years
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