Sad Recluse

“They may find the world a terrifying and hostile place that can only be survived with constant, very great effort. It is typical of a neglected person that, whatever is not right in their life, there is often no narrative to account for its origin, in the way that a person who has suffered abuse (or a marked loss or a similar event) will have a narrative of, “This happened and it affected me in a certain way, and that’s the reason that I am as I am now.” A person who has been neglected may not have such a narrative but instead may be left to feel that they are just odd. They may in the past have been blamed for being odd and not responding “like a normal person.” Usually they feel dreadfully ashamed of how they are.”
― Kathrin A. Stauffer, Emotional Neglect and the Adult in Therapy: Lifelong Consequences to a Lack of Early Attunement

“The human yearning is not merely marked by a ‘striving toward’, but equally by an ‘escape from.”
― Peter Wessel Zapffe

“Welcome... to the Filthy Frank Show. If you're feeling suicidal, you've come to the right place. 'Cause I wanna fucking kill myself as well.”
― George Miller

“Politically, we are still stuck in the systems of thought of the Greek and Roman slave states, no matter how much we rant about "democracy.”
― Wilhelm Reich, The Mass Psychology of Fascism