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“Is there no way out of the mind?”
― Sylvia Plath

“Dying
Is an art, like everything else.
I do it exceptionally well.
I do it so it feels like hell.
I do it so it feels real.
I guess you could say I have a call.”
― Sylvia Plath, Ariel

“I am still so naïve; I know pretty much what I like and dislike; but please, don’t ask me who I am. A passionate, fragmentary girl, maybe?”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“But I've just noticed that my mind is asleep.”
― Arthur Rimbaud, Une Saison en Enfer / Vers Nouveaux

“She has the gift of accepting her life.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake

“Never in her life – she could swear it from the bottom of her soul – had she ever intended to do wrong; yet these hard judgments had come. Whatever her sins, they were not sins of intention, but of inadvertence, and why should she have been punished so persistently?”
― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles

“I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.”
― L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“Autumn is the hardest season. The leaves are all falling, and they're falling like
they're falling in love with the ground.”
― Andrea Gibson

“It would be too easy to say that I feel invisible. Instead, I feel painfully visible, and entirely ignored.”
― David Levithan, Every Day

“How odd I can have all this inside me and to you it’s just words.”
― David Foster Wallace, The Pale King

“It's weird to feel like you miss someone you're not even sure you know.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“Whatever you get paid attention for is never what you think is most important about yourself.”
― David Foster Wallace

“I'd like to be the sort of person who can enjoy things at the time, instead of having to go back in my head and enjoy them.”
― David Foster Wallace

“Every love story is a ghost story.”
― David Foster Wallace, The Pale King

“You are what you love. No? You are, completely and only, what you would die for without, as you say, the thinking twice.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“Almost nothing important that ever happens to you happens because you engineer it.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“...morning is the soul's night.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“That having sex with someone you do not care for feels lonelier than not having sex in the first place, afterward.
That it is permissible to want.
That everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else. That this isn't necessarily perverse.
That there might not be angels, but there are people who might as well be angels.
That God — unless you're Charlton Heston, or unhinged, or both — speaks and acts entirely through the vehicle of human beings, if there is a God.
That God might regard the issue of whether you believe there's a God or not as fairly low on his/her/its list of things s/he/it's interested in re you.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“Bliss—a-second-by-second joy and gratitude at the gift of being alive, conscious—lies on the other side of crushing, crushing boredom. Pay close attention to the most tedious thing you can find (Tax Returns, Televised Golf) and, in waves, a boredom like you’ve never known will wash over you and just about kill you. Ride these out, and it’s like stepping from black and white into color. Like water after days in the desert. Instant bliss in every atom.”
― David Foster Wallace

“I miss everyone. I can remember being young and feeling a thing and identifying it as homesickness, and then thinking well now that’s odd, isn’t it, because I was home, all the time. What on earth are we to make of that?”
― David Foster Wallace, The Broom of the System

“Yes, I'm paranoid — but am I paranoid enough?”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“I wish you way more than luck.”
― David Foster Wallace, This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life

“Everything I’ve ever let go of had claw marks on it.”
― David Foster Wallace

“...loneliness is not a function of solitude.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“My worst character flaw that I'm conscious of is that I tend to think my way into circles instead of resolving anything. It's paralyzing and boring for people around me.”
― David Foster Wallace

“I'm not afraid of new things. I'm just afraid of feeling alone even when there's somebody else there. I'm afraid of feeling bad. Maybe that's selfish, but it's the way I feel.”
― David Foster Wallace, Girl With Curious Hair

“She was terrified of everything, and terrified to show it.”
― David Foster Wallace, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

“I'm so scared of dying without ever being really seen. Can you understand?”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“You must have been traumatized beyond fucking belief”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby