As a child, I felt myself to be alone, and I am still, because I know things and must hint at things which others apparently know nothing of, and for the most part do not want to know.

Carl Jung

 

I do not really know whether I have survived. My inner self has shut itself up more and more. As though to protect itself, it has become inaccessible even to me.

Rilke

 

Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.

Cormac McCarthy

"He awoke each morning with the desire to do right, to be a good and meaningful person, to be, as simple as it sounded and as impossible as it actually was, happy. And during the course of each day his heart would descend from his chest into his stomach. By early afternoon he was overcome with the feeling that nothing was right, or nothing was right for him, and by the desire to be alone. By evening he was fulfilled:  alone in the magnitude of his grief, alone in his guilt, alone even in his loneliness. I am not sad, he would repeat to himself over and over; I am not sad. As if he might one day convince himself. or fool himself. Or convince others--the only thing worse than being sad is for others to know that you are sad. I am not sad. I am not sad. Because his life had unlimited potential for happiness, insofar as it was an empty white room. he would fall asleep with his heart at the foot of his bed, like some domesticated animal that was no part of him at all. And each morning he would wake with it again in the cupboard of his ribcage, having become a little heavier, a little weaker, but still  pumping. And by the midafternoon he was again overcome with the desire to be somewhere else, someone else, someone else somewhere else. I am not sad."

Jonathan Safran Foer

 I don't know what they are called, the spaces between seconds- but I think of you always in those intervals.

S. Plascencia

If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger.

Bronte

Grief pours like water

Draining my heart and my soul

Leaving me empty...

Kelly Roper

I know you

Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth. ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky 

Make a pact with yourself today to not be defined by your past. Sometimes the greatest thing to come out of all of your hard work isn't what you get for it, but what you become for it.

Maraboli

I think we are all well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not. Otherwise they turn up unannounced and surprise us, come hammering on the mind's door at 4 am of a bad night and demand to know who deserted them, who betrayed them, who is going to make amends.

Joan Didion

Every life has death and every light has shadow. Be content to stand in the light and let the shadow fall where it will.
Stewart

Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.

Orwell

Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists, it is real, it is possible, it's yours.

Ayn Rand 

No one can build you the bridge on which you, and only you, must cross the river of life.

Nietzsche

The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd - the longing for impossible things, precisely because they are impossible; nostalgia for what never was; the desire for what could have been; regret over not being someone else; dissatisfaction with the worlds existence. All these half-tones of the soul's consciousness create in us a painful landscape, an eternal sunset of what we are.

Fernando Pessoa

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We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are. Sane or insane. Saints or sex addicts. Heroes or victims. Letting history tell us how good or bad we are. Letting our past decide our future. Or we can decide for ourselves. And maybe it's our job to invent something better.

Palahniuk

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be a live is a grand thing.

Christie

The difference between genius and stupidity is: genius has its limits.

Dumas

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

Goethe