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“If you live a long life and get to the end of it without ever once having felt crushingly depressed, then you probably haven’t been paying attention.”
― Every Brilliant Thing
― Every Brilliant Thing
“I find reality pretty difficult.
I find the business of getting out of bed and getting on with the day really hard. I find picking up my phone to be a mammoth fucking struggle. The number on my inbox. The friends who won’t see me anymore. The food pictures and porn videos, the bombings and beheadings, the moral ambivalence you have to have to just be able to carry on with your day. I find the knowledge that we’re all just atoms and one day we’ll stop and be dirt in the ground, I find that overwhelmingly
disappointing.”
― People, Places & Things
I find the business of getting out of bed and getting on with the day really hard. I find picking up my phone to be a mammoth fucking struggle. The number on my inbox. The friends who won’t see me anymore. The food pictures and porn videos, the bombings and beheadings, the moral ambivalence you have to have to just be able to carry on with your day. I find the knowledge that we’re all just atoms and one day we’ll stop and be dirt in the ground, I find that overwhelmingly
disappointing.”
― People, Places & Things
“Don Juan: I feel like God is punishing me and I don't know what for.
Nurse 2: God's not punishing you. Life is Hell for all of us. You're not special.”
― Don Juan Comes Back from the War
Nurse 2: God's not punishing you. Life is Hell for all of us. You're not special.”
― Don Juan Comes Back from the War
“Because in order to live in the present we have to be able to imagine a future that will be better than the past.”
― Every Brilliant Thing
― Every Brilliant Thing
“If you live a long life and get to the end of it without ever once having felt crushingly depressed, then you probably haven’t been paying attention.”
― Every Brilliant Thing
― Every Brilliant Thing
