“Never have I dealt with anything more difficult than my own soul, which sometimes helps me and sometimes opposes me.”
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“Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say “My tooth is aching” than to say “My heart is broken.”
― The Problem of Pain
― The Problem of Pain
“Its so hard to talk when you want to kill yourself. That's above and beyond everything else, and it's not a mental complaint-it's a physical thing, like it's physically hard to open your mouth and make the words come out. They don't come out smooth and in conjunction with your brain the way normal people's words do; they come out in chunks as if from a crushed-ice dispenser; you stumble on them as they gather behind your lower lip. So you just keep quiet.”
― It's Kind of a Funny Story
― It's Kind of a Funny Story
“What's the big fucking deal? Lots of amazing people have committed suicide, and they turned out alright.”
― The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls
― The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls
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