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    William Shakespeare
    “There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
    ― William Shakespear, Hamlet
    tags: philosophy
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    I like it when somebody gets excited about something. It's nice.
    “I like it when somebody gets excited about something. It's nice.”
    ― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
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    Rohinton Mistry
    “Flirting with madness was one thing; when madness started flirting back, it was time to call the whole thing off.”
    ― Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance
    tags: insanity, madness, sanity
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    Robert S. Mulliken
    “I decided that life rationally considered seemed pointless and futile, but it is still interesting in a variety of ways, including the study of science. So why not carry on, following the path of scientific hedonism? Besides, I did not have the courage for the more rational procedure of suicide.”
    ― Robert S. Mulliken, Life of a Scientist: An Autobiographical Account of the Development of Molecular Orbital Theory
    tags: courage, funny, hedonism, humor, interesting, life, meaning, meaning-of-life, molecular-orbital-theory, nobel-laureate, purpose, purpose-of-life, rationality, science, scientific-hedonism, scientist, study, study-of-science, suicide
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    Kamand Kojouri
    “I am so tired.
    I have grown old from being serious.
    I have grown ill from being serious.
    I want to laugh at myself.
    I want to forget myself.
    I am so tired.”
    ― Kamand Kojouri
    tags: contemplative, forget, ill, kamand, kamand-kojouri, kojouri, laugh, old, playful, playfulness, serious, seriousness, severe, solitude, somber, strict, thoughtful, thoughtfulness, tired
    33 likes

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    J.R. Ward
    “Vengeance was one hell of a roommate.”
    ― J.R. Ward, Dark Lover
    tags: black, dagger, dark, lover, wrath
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    Josh Lanyon
    “It wasn't merely fatigue. although it continued to worry me how tired i was all the time. I had a strange sense of missing something, of being in the wrong place - no matter where I was.”
    ― Josh Lanyon, The Dark Tide
    tags: depression, illness, tired
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  • #10
    “A guy with no will to live isn't worth killing.”
    ― Yukako Kabei, Kieli, Volume 7: As the Deep Ravine's Wind Howls
    tags: hopeless, kill, murder, worthless
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  • #12
    Paulo Coelho
    “I had never heard her sound so calm, so resigned to her fate. She said she was neither happy nor unhappy, and that was why she couldn't go on.”
    ― Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die
    tags: depression, fate, unhappiness
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    Craig D. Lounsbrough
    “Someone one said, ‘I just wanna lay me down and die,’ which implies that they’re currently doing neither. But that doesn’t mean that they’re not living as if they are.”
    ― Craig D. Lounsbrough
    tags: die, dying, exuberance, fullness, goals, god, life, living, purpose
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  • #14
    “Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark, or the man afraid of the light?”
    ― Maurice Freehill
    tags: dark, fear, foolishness, lies, light, truth
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  • #15
    Ruth Stone
    “What is imperative is the Off switch;
    which he, at one point some time ago,
    opted for himself.”
    ― Ruth Stone, In the Next Galaxy
    tags: choice, death, in-the-next-galaxy, metaphor, poetry, ruth-stone, suicide
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    James R. Silvestri
    “He wished he could be anywhere else and anyone else but Here and Him.”
    ― James R. Silvestri, Hawthorn Road
    tags: dissatisfaction, identity, self-loathing
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    Holly Black
    “The Folk doubtlessly learned this lesson long ago. They do not need to deceive humans. Humans will deceive themselves.”
    ― Holly Black, The Wicked King
    tags: deceive, humans, lesson
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    Richard Osman
    “Was he a content man, doing the things he liked alone? Or was he a lonely man making the best out of what he had? Alone, or lonely? This question cropped up so often these days, Chris could no longer be confident of his answer. Though if he was a betting man, his money would be on lonely.”
    ― Richard Osman, The Thursday Murder Club
    tags: aloneness, loneliness, solitude
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    Craig D. Lounsbrough
    “Too many people are willing to die for the very thing that’s killing them.”
    ― Craig D. Lounsbrough
    tags: deception, die, foolish, foolishness, illogical, irrational, killing, manipulation, sacrifice, stupidity
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    Scaylen Renvac
    “If you pluck and sell you feathers to climb to the top, you won't be able to fly when someone shoves you off. - The Malwatch”
    ― Scaylen Renvac
    tags: dark, ironic, life, philosophy, the-malwatch, truth, weird, wisdom
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    Steven Magee
    “We all know that birth ultimately ends with death.”
    ― Steven Magee
    tags: birth, death, end, fatal, grave, knowledge, life, spiritual, ultimate, wisdom
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    Samuel Butler
    “Sensible people get the greater part of their own dying done during their own lifetime”
    ― Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh
    tags: dying, existence, life, lifetime, living, sensible
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  • #20
    Kristen Heitzmann
    “It was not so much that he was shut out, but that she was trapped inside.”
    ― Kristen Heitzmann, Secrets
    tags: closed, disconnection, trapped-inside
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  • #21
    Aristotle
    “To perceive is to suffer.”
    ― Aristotle
    tags: empathy, life, suffer, understanding
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “My last words? "Life is no way to treat an animal, not even a mouse.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country
    tags: difficulties, epitaphs, last-words, life
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  • #24
    Zoje Stage
    “. . . her energy existed in precious spools that came unwound faster than she liked.”
    ― Zoje Stage, Baby Teeth
    tags: exhaustion
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    Craig D. Lounsbrough
    “The truth might hurt, but it is never your enemy.”
    ― Craig D. Lounsbrough
    tags: deceive, deception, enemy, honest, lies, manipulation, painful, truth
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  • #26
    Elizabeth Taylor
    “It is very strange that the years teach us patience - that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.”
    ― Elizabeth Taylor, A Wreath of Roses
    tags: life
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  • #27
    Alan Bradley
    “Alone in my room, I pondered the evidence. A perfect phrase. I would jot it down for future use.

    Like it or not, there are times when you need to be alone; times when you need to be lonely; times when you need to need other people.”
    ― Alan Bradley, The Golden Tresses of the Dead
    tags: alone, loneliness
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  • #28
    Agatha Christie
    “One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.”
    ― Agatha Christie
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  • #29
    Anaïs Nin
    “I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don’t know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness.”
    ― Anaïs Nin
    tags: interaction, loneliness, love
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  • #30
    J.K. Rowling
    “Lies upon lies. Once you started lying, you had to continue, and then it was like being captain of a leaky ship, always plugging holes in the side to stop yourself sinking.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, The Ickabog
    tags: deception, lies
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    Viktor E. Frankl
    “Those who have a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.”
    ― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
    tags: nietzsche
    3000 likes



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