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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 1b0e784 | The pain of severe depression is quite unimaginable to those who have not suffered it, and it kills in many instances because its anguish can no longer be borne. The prevention of many suicides will continue to be hindered until there is a general awareness of the nature of this pain. | suicide pain suffering depression prevention awareness depressed mental-illness psychology mental-health | William Styron | |
| 452545f | You don't knock on the devil's door, boy, unless you want him to answer. (Ravyn) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 59fa53e | Even extreme grief may ultimately vent itself in violence--but more generally takes the form of apathy | grief depression | Joseph Conrad | |
| 0fb7929 | because when people have seen you at their worst, you don't have to put on the mask as much. | Anne Lamott | ||
| fd1d050 | Why should we place Christ at the top and summit of the human race? Was he kinder, more forgiving, more self-sacrificing than ? Was he wiser, did he meet death with more perfect calmness, than ? Was he more patient, more charitable, than ? Was he a greater philosopher, a deeper thinker, than ? In what respect was he the superior of ? Was he gentler than , more universal than ? Were his ideas of human rights and duties superior to tho.. | shakespeare kindness wisdom bruno epicurus gautama-buddha giordano-bruno laozi zeno zeno-of-citium zoroaster cicero baruch-spinoza epictetus spinoza buddha buddhism socrates stoicism patience isaac-newton johannes-kepler kepler newton william-shakespeare | Robert G. Ingersoll | |
| 189d56f | Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love. | William Shakespeare | ||
| 8cc79f4 | Look after the senses and the sounds will look after themselves | wordplay | Lewis Carroll | |
| 0854627 | Fang and I searched in every way we could think of and found a million institutes of one kind or another, in Manhattan and throughout New York state, but none of them seemed promising. My favorite? The Institute for Realizing Your Pet's Inner Potential. Anyone who can explain that to me, drop a line. | James Patterson | ||
| 0af4f76 | All those Nupboards in the Cupboards they're good fun to have about. But that Nooth gush on my tooth brush.....Him I could do without. | Dr. Seuss | ||
| 4f4948e | If you reveal everything, bare every feeling, ask for understanding, you lose something crucial to your sense of yourself. You need to know things that others don't know. It's what no one knows about you that allows you to know yourself. | Don DeLillo | ||
| baf0737 | They looked at each other, baffled, in love and hate. | william-golding | William Golding | |
| a90f754 | Those who know don't tell and those who tell don't know. | Michael Lewis | ||
| a0541e3 | Habit is the intersection of knowledge (what to do), skill (how to do), and desire (want to do). | skill knowledge habit | Stephen R. Covey | |
| 283e857 | You know, I think the people I feel saddest for are the ones who once knew what profoundness was, but who lost or became numb to the sensation of wonder, who felt their emotions floating away and just didn't care. I guess that's what's scariest: not caring about the loss. | loss numbness | Douglas Coupland | |
| 2e69565 | Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connait point. French. Pascal. The heart has its reasons, whereof reason knows nothing. | reason | Madeleine L'Engle | |
| 7c6d3c7 | He who cannot put his thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of dispute. | thoughts dispute ice disagreement debate heat | Friedrich Nietzsche | |
| af61da6 | All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in strange, sometimes inexplicable ways. | strange | Yann Martel | |
| eacdfcc | My Head of House said I lacked certain necessary qualities...like the ability to behave myself. | tonks | J.K. Rowling | |
| 73385aa | You - will - never - touch - our - children - again!' screamed Mrs. Weasley. Bellatrix laughed, the same exhilarated laugh her cousin Sirius had given as he toppled backwards through the veil, and suddenly Harry knew what was going to happen before it did. Molly's curse soared beneath Bellatrix's outstretched arm and hit her squarely in the chest, directly over her heart. Bellatrix's gloating smile froze, her eyes seemed to bulge: for the t.. | molly-weasley voldemort | J.K. Rowling | |
| e905b9b | And I know I can do this because I went to London on my own, and because I solved the mystery...and I was brave and I wrote a book and that means I can do anything. | self-confidence | Mark Haddon | |
| e1c0cd2 | Gabe?" The newchild stirred slightly in his sleep. Jonas looked over at him. "There could be love", Jonas whispered." | sleep stirred whispered | Lois Lowry | |
| b95c145 | Your mother and I do not approve of drinking. Have you not heard of the Eighteenth Amendment?" "Prohibition? I drink to its health whenever I can." | Libba Bray | ||
| ddb405a | There is no greater power on this earth than story." Will paced the length of the room. "People think boundaries and borders build nations. Nonsense--words do. Beliefs, declarations, constitutions--words. Stories. Myths. Lies. Promises. History." Will grabbed the sheaf of newspaper clippings he kept in a stack on his desk. "This, and these"--he gestured to the library's teeming shelves--"they're a testament to the country's rich supernatura.. | Libba Bray | ||
| 475a6e1 | This is not an exit. | Bret Easton Ellis | ||
| 8da46e2 | Guns are our friends because in a country without guns, I'm what's known as "prey." All females are." -- | politics second-amendment | Ann Coulter | |
| eed7301 | You can't crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them. By refusing to think, refusing to change. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 2ddbd48 | And Chaol was afraid, but not for himself. He was afraid of what would come when Aedion and Aelin were reunited. For he'd seen in her that same glittering ember that made people look and listen. Had seen her stalk into the council with Councilor Mullison's head and smile at the King of Adarlan, every man in that room enthralled and petrified by the dark whirlwind of her spirit. The two of them together, both of them lethal, working to build.. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| c575489 | Those who do not know what love is likens it to beauty Those who claim to know what love is likens it to ugliness -Gin Ichimaru | Tite Kubo | ||
| 7ccab28 | Alan, you seem to think we won't like you unless you do things just like everyone else. Have you ever thought we might like you because you're different? | identity | Tamora Pierce | |
| d717357 | As she read, at peace with the world and happy as only a little girl could be with a fine book and a little bowl of candy, and all alone in the house, the leaf shadows shifted and the afternoon passed. | Betty Smith | ||
| 21a9283 | In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling. | Gertrude Stein | ||
| 9f6133c | It was all because of his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing great-great-grandfather! | Louis Sachar | ||
| 8b5b13f | People live through such pain only once. Pain comes again--but it finds a tougher surface. | Willa Cather | ||
| 6ad9594 | In the vastness of space and the immensity of time, it is my joy to share a planet and an epoch with Annie. [Dedication to Sagan's wife, Ann Druyan, in Cosmos] | time marriage true-love joy science love immensity vastness wife space | Carl Sagan | |
| 9a90551 | But to fall in love does not mean to love. One can fall in love and still hate. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| b3188f9 | Strange about learning; the farther I go the more I see that I never knew even existed. A short while ago I foolishly thought I could learn everything - all the knowledge in the world. Now I hope only to be able to know of its existence, and to understand one grain of it. Is there time? | Daniel Keyes | ||
| f02aada | In a course of a lifetime, what does it matter? | Sharon Creech | ||
| a4af0a3 | It seems to me that we can't explain all the truly awful things in the world like war and murder and brain tumors, and we can't fix these things, so we look at the frightening things that are closer to us and we magnify them until they burst open. Inside is something that we can manage, something that isn't as awful as it had a first seemed. It is a relief to discover that although there might be axe murderers and kidnappers in the world, m.. | fear | Sharon Creech | |
| 6972a3f | As hard as it was, as terrible and unfair as the way things turned out, i wouldn't have traded the few days i spent with him for anything | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| bd2b958 | Every name is real. That's the nature of names. | Jerry Spinelli | ||
| dc57f20 | What separates us from the animals, what separates us from the chaos, is our ability to mourn people we've never met. | death terrorism | David Levithan | |
| a73e753 | i can't help thinking that 'getting a life' is something only a complete idiot could believe. like you can just drive to a store and get a life. see it in its shiny box and look inside the plastic window and catch a glimpse of yourself in a new life and say, 'wow, i look much happier - i think this is the life i need to get!' take it to the counter, ring it up, put it on your credit card. if getting a life was that easy, we'd be one blissed.. | David Levithan | ||
| 598e626 | You were what you were and you are what you are. Fuck that regrets bullshit. | self-acceptance | Irvine Welsh | |
| ed58b53 | We shouldn't live as if [other worlds] mattered more than this life in this world, because where we are is always the most important place. | living | Philip Pullman |