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#1

“I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange impending doom.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

tags: addiction, alchohol, drinking, drugs, loneliness, melancholy, pain

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#2

“I go to sleep alone, and wake up alone. I take walks. I work until I'm tired. I watch the wind play with the trash that's been under the snow all winter. Everything seems simple until you think about it. Why is love intensified by abscence?”
― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

tags: love, melancholy

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#3

“I am my heart’s undertaker. Daily I go and retrieve its tattered remains, place them delicately into its little coffin, and bury it in the depths of my memory, only to have to do it all again tomorrow.”
― Emilie Autumn, The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls

tags: heart, love, melancholy

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#4

“A melancholy-looking man, he had the appearance of one who has searched for the leak in life's gas-pipe with a lighted candle.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, The Man Upstairs and Other Stories

tags: depression, humor, melancholy, wit

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#5

“Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.”
― Victor Hugo

tags: melancholy, pleasure, sad, sorrow

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#6

“The gods are strange. It is not our vices only they make instruments to scourge us. They bring us to ruin through what in us is good, gentle, humane, loving.”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

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#7

“I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or cheapen us or deprive us of our dignity but to mature and transfigure us.”
― Hermann Hesse, Peter Camenzind

tags: life, maturity, melancholy, suffering

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#8

“I think it takes an amazing amount of energy to convince oneself that the Forever Person isn't just around the corner. In the end I believe we never do convince ourselves. I know that I found it increasingly hard to maintain the pose of emotional self-sufficiency lying on my bed and sitting at my desk, watching the gulls cartwheeling in the clouds over the bridges, cradling myself in my own arms, breathing warm chocolate-and-vodka breath on a rose I had found on a street corner, trying to force it to bloom.”
― Douglas Coupland, Life After God

tags: alcohol, loneliness, love, melancholy

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#9

“Hands that never touch. Lips that never meet. The Almost Lovers, never to be.”
― Rae Hachton, Frankie's Monster

tags: breaking-up, heartbreak, lament, love, lovers-love-story, lovers-sadness, melancholy, romance, sadness, tragedy

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#10

“I want to hold onto this funny thing. God, it's gotten big on me. I don't know what it is. I'm so damned unhappy, I'm so mad, and I don't know why. I feel like I'm putting on weight. I feel fat. I feel like I'm saving a lot of things, and I don't know what. I might even start reading books.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

tags: humor, melancholy

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#11

“I have come to accept the feeling of not knowing where I am going. And I have trained myself to love it. Because it is only when we are suspended in mid-air with no landing in sight, that we force our wings to unravel and alas begin our flight. And as we fly, we still may not know where we are going to. But the miracle is in the unfolding of the wings. You may not know where you're going, but you know that so long as you spread your wings, the winds will carry you.”
― C. JoyBell C.

tags: belief, direction, faith, flight, flying, flying-spirit, hope, inspirational, inspirational-life, inspirational-quotes, life, life-and-living, living, trust, uplifting, winds, winds-of-life, wings

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#12

“The compass rose is nothing but a star with an infinite number of rays pointing in all directions.

It is the one true and perfect symbol of the universe.

And it is the one most accurate symbol of you.

Spread your arms in an embrace, throw your head back, and prepare to receive and send coordinates of being. For, at last you know—you are the navigator, the captain, and the ship.”
― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

tags: all, captain, compass-rose, coordinates, direction, directions, entity, navigator, one, person, rays, receive, self, send, ship, symbol, the-universe, universe, you

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#13

“My direction? Anywhere. Because one is always nearer by not keeping still.”
― Sebastian Faulks, Engleby

tags: direction

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#14

“Headed to the top. The only question as I meet you on my way is if you're coming with me or not.”
― Iveta Cherneva

tags: direction, encounter, top

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#15

“When you're here, I'm there for you. And when you're there, I'm here for you.”
― Jarod Kintz, Whenever You're Gone, I'm Here For You

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#16

“your soul is like a compass, tells you where to go, but not how to get there”
― Archie Bunker

tags: direction, soul

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#17

“It was a pity that there was no radar to guide one across the trackless seas of life. Every man had to find his own way, steered by some secret compass of the soul. And sometimes, late or early, the compass lost its power and spun aimlessly on its bearings.

Alan Bishop”
― Arthur C. Clarke, Glide Path

tags: bearings, compass, direction, life

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#18

“If you can see everything in all directions, there is no such thing as up or down, left or right.”
― Amjad Khan

tags: direction, inspirational, vision

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#19

“Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”
― Henry Thomas Buckle

tags: creativity, dreams, gossip, misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt, paraphrased

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#20

“Just because something isn't a lie does not mean that it isn't deceptive. A liar knows that he is a liar, but one who speaks mere portions of truth in order to deceive is a craftsman of destruction.”
― Criss Jami

tags: agenda, bad-influence, compulsive-liar, controlling, craftsman, deception, destruction, dishonest, influence, lies, manipulation, media, mislead, slander, speak, true

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#21

“How would your life be different if…You walked away from gossip and verbal defamation? Let today be the day…You speak only the good you know of other people and encourage others to do the same.”
― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

tags: encouragement, friends, gossip, inspirational, life, motivational, relationships

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#22

“Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.”
― Socrates

tags: gossip

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#23

“Isn't it kind of silly to think that tearing someone else down builds you up?”
― Sean Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens: The Ultimate Teenage Success Guide

tags: gossip, jealousy, pettiness

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#24

“Gossip is just a tool to distract people who have nothing better to do from feeling jealous of those few of us still remaining with noble hearts.”
― Anna Godbersen, Splendor

tags: gossip, humor, inspirational, jealousy

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#25

“Rumor travels faster, but it don't stay put as long as truth. ”
― Will Rogers

tags: gossip

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#26

“It’s not technically gossip if you start your sentence with “I’m really concerned about __________________ ,” (fill in the name of the person you’re not gossiping about).”
― Brian P. Cleary, You Oughta Know By Now

tags: gossip, humor, observational-comedy, observations

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#27

“Gossip is never fatal until it is denied. Gossip goes on about every human being alive and about all the dead that are alive enough to be remembered, and yet almost never does any harm until some defender makes a controversy. Gossip's a nasty thing, but it's sickly, and if people of good intentions will let it entirely alone, it will die, ninety-nine times out of a hundred.”
― Booth Tarkington, The Magnificent Ambersons

tags: gossip

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#28

“I give boring people something to discuss over corn.”
― Aimee Bender, The Girl in the Flammable Skirt

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#29

“Bittersweet? No, just bitter, the taste of your tongue.
Words you can’t have back, so they linger.”
― Coco J. Ginger

tags: betrayal, bitter, breaking-up, friendship, friendship-and-love, gossip, love, love-story, words

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#30

“People would say bad things about you, because it is the only way their insignificant self can feel better than you.”
― Dennis E. Adonis

tags: betrayed, deceit, deceive, enemy, gossip, judas, lies, news, rival, rumor, rumours, sayings, talk

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