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“Look at me. I put this war paint on, but underneath I’m scarred and scared and horny and tired and love you.”
― Lisa Taddeo, Three Women

“We must look at ourselves over and over again in order to learn to love, to discover what has kept our hearts closed, and what it means to allow our hearts to open.”
― Jack Kornfield, A Path with Heart: A Guide Through the Perils and Promises of Spiritual Life

“In the end, just three things matter:

How well we have lived
How well we have loved
How well we have learned to let go”
― Jack Kornfield

“If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.”
― Jack Kornfield, Buddha's Little Instruction Book

“The things that matter most in our lives are not fantastic or grand. They are moments when we touch one another”
― Jack Kornfield

“True love is not for the faint-hearted.”
― Jack Kornfield, The Art of Forgiveness, Lovingkindness, and Peace

“You don’t have to stay trapped in your thoughts just because you think them.”
― Doug Dillon

“Her whole life stretches out before her, a path of imprecise but multiple directions. She could be an astronaut, a rap star, an accountant. She could be happy.”
― Lisa Taddeo, Three Women

“There is no humanity in humans.”
― Lisa Taddeo, Three Women

“When you are actively living for yourself, you feel less pain.”
― Lisa Taddeo, Three Women

“It’s a sad feeling when an obsession becomes slightly less obsessive. It’s as though she realizes she doesn’t have it in her to die for her own heart.”
― Lisa Taddeo, Three Women

“Become More Beautiful - you wrote at the top of the vision board. But you couldn't do that. So you became everything else.”
― Lisa Taddeo, Ghost Lover

“she imagines a chasm inside her, a black space between one set of organs and the next. She feels she exists in that space, mindless, flavorless, unseen.”
― Lisa Taddeo, Three Women

“She felt life slipping. She felt that her body was being wasted, that her heart was resting like a steak on a cutting board.”
― Lisa Taddeo, Three Women

“Sometimes there's nothing better on earth than someone asking you a question.”
― Lisa Taddeo, Three Women

“I don’t understand why we must do things in this world, why we must have friends and aspirations, hopes and dreams. Wouldn’t it be better to retreat to a faraway corner of the world, where all its noise and complications would be heard no more? Then we could renounce culture and ambitions; we would lose everything and gain nothing; for what is there to be gained from this world?”
― Emil Cioran, On the Heights of Despair

“What do you do from morning to night?"

"I endure myself.”
― Emil Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born

“Chaos is rejecting all you have learned, Chaos is being yourself.”
― Emil Cioran, A Short History of Decay

“If I were to be totally sincere, I would say that I do not know why I live and why I do not stop living. The answer probably lies in the irrational character of life which maintains itself without reason.”
― Emil Cioran, On the Heights of Despair

“Do I look like someone who has something to do here on earth?' —That's what I'd like to answer the busybodies who inquire into my activities.”
― Emil Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born

“No matter which way we go, it is no better than any other. It is all the same whether you achieve something or not, have faith or not, just as it is all the same whether you cry or remain silent.”
― Emil Cioran, On the Heights of Despair

“I'm simply an accident. Why take it all so seriously?”
― Emil Cioran

“To get up in the morning, wash and then wait for some unforeseen variety of dread or depression.
I would give the whole universe and all of Shakespeare for a grain of ataraxy.”
― Emil Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born

“I get along quite well with someone only when he is at his lowest point and has neither the desire nor the strength to restore his habitual illusions.”
― Emil Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born

“I cannot contribute anything to this world because I only have one method: agony.”
― Emil Cioran, On the Heights of Despair

“I would like to be free, totaly free... free like an aborted child.”
― Emil Cioran, On the Heights of Despair

“Having always lived in fear of being surprised by the worst, I have tried in every circumstance to get a head start, flinging myself into misfortune long before it occurred.”
― Emil Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born

“No one recovers from the disease of being born, a deadly wound if there ever was one.”
― Emil Cioran

“Living is abnormal.”
― Eugène Ionesco

“The need to go astray, to be destroyed, is an extremely private, distant, passionate, turbulent truth.”
― Georges Bataille