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    Philip K. Dick
    “It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.”
    ― Philip K. Dick, VALIS
    tags: qotd
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
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    Christopher Moore
    “If you think anyone is sane you just don't know enough about them.”
    ― Christopher Moore, Practical Demonkeeping
    tags: humor, insanity, sanity
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    Brian Krans
    “There I was, cold, isolated and desperate for something I knew I couldn't have.
    A solution. A remedy. Anything.

    ...I hated it. Alone and confused was the last place I wanted to be.
    Somehow I knew I deserved this.”
    ― Brian Krans, A Constant Suicide
    tags: alone, blame, confusion, culpability, longing
    386 likes

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    Mervyn Peake
    “Lingering is so very lonely when one lingers all alone.”
    ― Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan
    tags: alone, loneliness
    170 likes

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    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    “Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.”
    ― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    tags: coldness, depression, happiness, life, sad, sadness, sorrow
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    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.”
    ― Jonathan Safran Foer
    tags: happiness, sadness
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    John Green
    “What you must understand about me is that I’m a deeply unhappy person.”
    ― John Green, Looking for Alaska
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    Ned Vizzini
    “I can't eat and I can't sleep. I'm not doing well in terms of being a functional human, you know?”
    ― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story
    tags: depression, sadness, suicide
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    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    “I do not believe anyone can be perfectly well, who has a brain and a heart”
    ― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    tags: conscience, life, sadness
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    Jeremy Aldana
    “I am intrigued by the smile upon your face, and the sadness within your eyes”
    ― Jeremy Aldana
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    John Keats
    “I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.”
    ― John Keats
    tags: depression, desolation, sadness
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    Jodi Picoult
    “All it takes is a second and your whole life can get turned upside down.”
    ― Jodi Picoult, Salem Falls
    tags: life, struggle
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    Amy Efaw
    “In case you didn't know, dead people don't bleed. If you can bleed-see it, feel it-then you know you're alive. It's irrefutable, undeniable proof. Sometimes I just need a little reminder.”
    ― Amy Efaw, After
    tags: cutting, self-harm
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    “Feelings are not supposed to be logical. Dangerous is the man who has rationalized his emotions.”
    ― David Borenstein
    tags: feelings
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  • #16
    “Nothing you become will disappoint me; I have no preconception that I'd like to see you be or do. I have no desire to forsee you, only to discover you. You can't disappoint me”
    ― Mary Haskell
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    Aberjhani
    “Compassion crowns the soul with its truest victory.”
    ― Aberjhani, The River of Winged Dreams
    tags: compassion, famous-quotes-from-classic-books, forgiveness, healing, inspiration, positive-inspiration, positive-motivation, spiritual-philosophy, spiritual-quotations, spiritual-quotes, spirituality, the-soul, unconditional-love, victory, world-suicide-prevention-day
    112 likes

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    Maya Angelou
    “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
    ― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
    tags: 1970, inspirational, stories, writing
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    J.K. Rowling
    “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
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    Stephanie Kallos
    “Less is less. Heartbreak is heartbreak. You think I'm sitting here gloating. Telling myself that my suffering beats yours? Hurt is hurt. You don't measure these things.”
    ― Stephanie Kallos, Broken for You
    tags: heartbreak, hurt, loss
    256 likes

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  • #21
    “I often lose motivation, but it's something I accept as normal.”
    ― Bill Rodgers
    tags: accept, loss, motivation, normal, running
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  • #22
    Sarah Hall
    “You’ve been wondering lately when the moment is that somebody is truly lost to you.”
    ― Sarah Hall, How to Paint a Dead Man
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    R.J. Gonzales
    “A flower bloomed already wilting. Beginning its life with an early ending.”
    ― RJ Gonzales, Mundahlia
    tags: birth-complications, death, loss, loss-of-a-baby, miscarriage, sad, sadness, tragedy
    52 likes

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    Erin Hunter
    “The only true borders lie between day and night, between life and death, between hope and loss.”
    ― Erin Hunter
    tags: borders, boundaries, day, death, hope, life, loss, night, true
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    Alyson Richman
    “If those we love visit us when we dream, those who torment us almost always visit us when we're still awake.”
    ― Alyson Richman, The Lost Wife
    tags: dreams, loss, love, torment
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  • #26
    “Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength.”
    ― Oivd
    tags: grief, loss
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    Michael Crichton
    “If you don't know history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree. ”
    ― Michael Crichton
    tags: history
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    Christopher Paolini
    “People have an annoying habit of remembering things they shouldn't.”
    ― Christopher Paolini, Eragon
    tags: history, humor, memory, recall
    2000 likes

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    Dan Brown
    “History is always written by the winners. When two cultures clash, the loser is obliterated, and the winner writes the history books-books which glorify their own cause and disparage the conquered foe. As Napoleon once said, 'What is history, but a fable agreed upon?”
    ― Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code
    tags: history, misattributed-napoleon-bonaparte
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    Napoléon Bonaparte
    “History is a set of lies agreed upon.”
    ― Napoleon Bonaparte
    tags: history, lies, lying, propoganda, rewriting-history, self-deception
    1132 likes



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