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#1

“Am I sleeping? Have I slept at all? This is insomnia.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

tags: insomnia, sleep

168 likes

#2

“When we don't know who to hate, we hate ourselves.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

tags: hate, self-loathing

2880 likes

#3

“Today is the sort of day where the sun only comes up to humiliate you.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

tags: today

2362 likes

#4

“A girl calls and asks, "Does it hurt very much to die?"
"Well, sweetheart," I tell her, "yes, but it hurts a lot more to keep living.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor

tags: death, living

2528 likes

#5

“Alt werden heisst nichts anderes, als keine Angst mehr haben vor der Vergangenheit.”
― Stefan Zweig, Vingt-quatre heures de la vie d'une femme

2 likes

#6

“Die gefährlichste aller Krankheiten ist die Frau”
― Joseph Roth, Meistererzählungen

1 likes

#7

“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: books, friends, novelist-quotes

23601 likes

#8

“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: books, morality, reading

20276 likes

#9

“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden

tags: happiness

15057 likes

#10

“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

14542 likes

#11

“Wit beyond measure is man’s greatest treasure.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

tags: wit

10809 likes

#12

“The only thing worse than a boy who hates you: a boy that loves you.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

tags: boys, hate, love

10987 likes

#13

“I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: sleep

9536 likes

#14

“Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

tags: humanity, kindness, relationships

11052 likes

#15

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: truth

16385 likes

#16

“I have great faith in fools - self-confidence my friends will call it.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, Marginalia

tags: faith, fool, humor, self-confidence, self-irony

6474 likes

#17

“Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”
― Albert Camus

tags: humanity, life, mankind, mortality

7388 likes

#18

“I don't want to die without any scars.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

tags: death, scars, tyler-durden

6086 likes

#19

“Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?”
― Albert Camus

tags: attributed-no-source

7173 likes

#20

“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”
― William Shakespeare, The Tempest

tags: inspirational

8720 likes

#21

“Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost

5814 likes

#22

“If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

tags: perfection

5765 likes

#23

“I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

tags: inspiration

5833 likes

#24

“How wrong to have been so negative, how wrong to have been so gloomy, how wrong to have run away from life, how wrong to have said no, again and again, instead of yes.”
― Jonathan Franzen

1284 likes

#25

“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

tags: animal-farm

7832 likes

#26

“The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

tags: animal-farm, animals, closing-line, man, satirical

3944 likes

#27

“Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one.”
― George Orwell, 1984

1645 likes

#28

“The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.”
― Nikolai V. Gogol

tags: humor, sadness

3096 likes

#29

“Anger always leaves a large void behind it, into which a flood of sorrow pours instantly, and keeps on flowing like a great river, without beginning or end.”
― Olga Tokarczuk, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

tags: anger

41 likes

#30

“That’s what I dislike most of all in people – cold irony. It’s a very cowardly attitude to mock or belittle everything, never be committed to anything, not feel tied to anything. Like an impotent man who can’t experience pleasure himself, but will do all he can to ruin it for others.”
― Olga Tokarczuk

35 likes

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