“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”

— Maya Angelou

“How does one convince a depressed person that “everything is all right” when her life really does suck?”

— Christopher S. Putnam 

“Are you becoming what you’ve always hated?”

— Charles Bukowski

“I’d like to take a moment of silence for all the books that I’ll never get to read because life is too short.”

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“She held herself very straight, like Audrey Hepburn, whom all women idolize and men never think about.” ― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides

“In a sense, and as in melodrama, killing yourself amounts to confessing. It is confessing that life is too much for you or that you do not understand it.”

— Albert Camus - “An Absurd Reasoning,” The Myth of Sisyphus 

“But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.”

— D.H. Lawrence, Women in Love

“History is a set of lies agreed upon.”

— Napoleon Bonaparte 

“A woman is not written in braille, you don’t have to touch her to know her.”

“I quote others only in order the better to express myself.”

— Michel Eyquem de Montaign

“We are so lonely in life that we must ask ourselves if the loneliness of dying is not a symbol of our human existence.”

— Emil Cioran

“Since I wasn’t consulted at the time of the creation of the world, I reserve for myself the right to have my own opinion about it.”

— Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Adolescent  

“You can hold back from the suffering of the world. You have free permission to do so, and it is in accordance with your nature. But perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could have avoided.”

— Franz Kafka 

“I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.”

— Franz Kafka 

“When I see the picture of a twenty-something in the newspaper who was abducted and sodomized and robbed and then killed and here’s a front-page picture of her young and smiling, instead of me dwelling on this being a big, sad crime, my gut reaction is, wow, she’d be really hot if she didn’t have such a big honker of a nose. My second reaction is I’d better have some good head and shoulder shots handy in case I get, you know, abducted and sodomized to death. My third reaction is, well, at least that cuts down the competition.”

— Shannon McFarland, Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk (via tinagrey)