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    “I wish I could tell you how lonely I am. How cold and harsh it is here. Everywhere there is conflict and unkindness. I think God has forsaken this place. I believe I have seen hell and it's white, it's snow-white.”
    ― Sandy Welch
    tags: coldness, conflict, despair, harshness, hell, industrialization, loneliness, misattributed-elizabeth-gaskell, unkindness
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    Vincent van Gogh
    “A great fire burns within me, but no one stops to warm themselves at it, and passers-by only see a wisp of smoke”
    ― Vincent Van Gogh
    tags: loneliness, passion
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  • #3
    “All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart.”
    ― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me
    tags: compassion, empathy, loneliness, love
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  • #4
    Sonya Sones
    “But most days,
    I wander around feeling invisible.
    Like I'm a speck of dust
    floating in the air
    that can only be seen
    when a shaft of light hits it.”
    ― Sonya Sones, One of Those Hideous Books Where the Mother Dies
    tags: isolation, loneliness
    93 likes

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    Mark Helprin
    “Lonely people have enthusiasms which cannot always be explained. When something strikes them as funny, the intensity and length of their laughter mirrors the depth of their loneliness, and they are capable of laughing like hyenas. When something touches their emotions, it runs through them like Paul Revere, awakening feelings that gather into great armies.”
    ― Mark Helprin, Winter's Tale
    tags: emotion, intensity, laughter, loneliness, lonely-people
    216 likes

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  • #6
    Vincent van Gogh
    “I wish they would take me as I am.”
    ― Vincent van Gogh
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  • #7
    Vincent van Gogh
    “What preys on my mind is simply this one question: what am I good for, could I not be of service or use in some way?”
    ― Vincent van Gogh, The Letters of Vincent van Gogh
    tags: being-lost
    115 likes

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  • #8
    Jane Austen
    “There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
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    Paulo Coelho
    “behind the mask of ice that people wear, there beats a heart of fire.”
    ― Paulo Coelho, Warrior of the Light
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    Adolf Guggenbühl-Craig
    “The marriage of Zeus and Hera can hardly be reframed into a "happy one" and yet Hera is the Goddess of marriage. Hera and Zeus could be described as quarrelsome predecessors of the Holy Family. For the Greeks they symbolized marriage par excellence.”
    ― Adolf Guggenbühl-Craig, Matrimonio: Vivi o morti
    tags: goddess-of-marriage, hera, marriage, zeus
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  • #11
    Jarod Kintz
    “I just recently figured out how mirrors work. Pretty cool. That guy always hungrily staring at my naked body was me!”
    ― Jarod Kintz, $3.33
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    Cecelia Ahern
    “It occurs to me how close happiness and sadness are. So closely knitted together. Such a thin line, a thread-like divide that in the midst of emotions, it trembles, blurring the territory of exact opposites ... how quickly a moment of love was snapped away to a moment of hate ... Of how love and war stand upon the very same foundations. How, in my darkest moments, my most fearful times, when faced, became my bravest. When feeling at your weakest you end up showing more strength, when at your lowest are suddenly lifted above higher than you've ever been. They all border one another, the opposites, and how we can be altered. Despair can be altered by one simple smile offered by a stranger; confidence can become fear by the arrival of one uneasy presence. ... How similar emotions are.”
    ― Cecelia Ahern, Thanks for the Memories
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    Oliver Goldsmith
    “Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
    ― Oliver Goldsmith, The Citizen of the World, Or, Letters from a Chinese Philosopher, Residing in London, to His Friends in the Country, by Dr. Goldsmith
    tags: misattributed-to-confucius, success
    2233 likes

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  • #14
    Vladimir Nabokov
    “Let all of life be an unfettered howl.”
    ― Vladimir Nabokov
    tags: life, living, passion
    440 likes

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    Karl Lagerfeld
    “We live in a dark and romantic and quite tragic world.”
    ― Karl Lagerfeld
    tags: dark, designer, fashion, karl-lagerfeld, life, live, living, love, romance, tragic, world
    309 likes

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  • #16
    William Shakespeare
    “Like madness is the glory of this life.”
    ― Shakespeare, Timon of Athens
    tags: inspiration, life, living, writing
    207 likes

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  • #17
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born.”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exuper
    tags: awakening, living, unknown
    239 likes

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    Seneca
    “It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable.”
    ― Seneca, The Stoic Philosophy of Seneca: Essays and Letters
    tags: consicousness, dissociation, mind, stoicism, transcendence, zen
    679 likes

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    Emilie Autumn
    “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
    527 likes

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  • #21
    George MacDonald
    “Her heart - like every heart, if only its fallen sides were cleared away - was an inexhaustible fountain of love: she loved everything she saw. ”
    ― George MacDonald, The Day Boy and the Night Girl
    tags: heart, love
    236 likes

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  • #22
    Tess Gerritsen
    “The heart makes its choices without weighing the consequences. It doesn't look ahead to the lonely nights that follow.”
    ― Tess Gerritsen, Keeping The Dead
    tags: heart, life, love
    174 likes

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  • #23
    Cormac McCarthy
    “If only my heart were stone.”
    ― Cormac McCarthy, The Road
    tags: heart
    359 likes

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  • #24
    Josephine Angelini
    “She had power over the most magnificent forces on Earth, but she still didn’t feel like she had power over the most important thing of all—her own heart.”
    ― Josephine Angelini, Goddess
    tags: feelings, goddess, heart, love, starcrossed
    130 likes

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  • #25
    “The same sun that rises over castles and welcomes the day
    Spills over buildings into the streets where orphans play
    And only You can see the good in broken things
    You took my heart of stone, and You made it home
    And set this prisoner free”
    ― Bethany Dillon
    tags: free, god, good, heart, home
    63 likes

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  • #26
    Robert Frost
    “Freedom lies in being bold.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: boldness, courage, freedom
    2640 likes

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  • #27
    Michel de Montaigne
    “The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.”
    ― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
    tags: ataraxy, independence, individuality, inspirational, self-assurance, self-awareness, self-containment, self-determination, self-esteem, self-reliance, self-respect, self-sufficiency, self-trust, solitude
    1756 likes

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  • #28
    Emma Goldman
    “People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take.”
    ― Emma Goldman
    tags: anarchism, independence, independent-thought, inspirational, liberty, revolution
    723 likes

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  • #29
    Walt Disney Company
    “The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all.”
    ― Walt Disney Company, Mulan
    tags: inspiration, life
    7882 likes

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  • #30
    Alexandra Bracken
    “He's so busy looking inside people to find the good that he misses the knife they're holding in their hand.”
    ― Alexandra Bracken, The Darkest Minds
    tags: chubs, intentions, liam-stewart
    1101 likes

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  • #31
    Franz Kafka
    “Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.”
    ― Kafka, Franzv
    684 likes



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