April 2013
9 posts
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“Profound melancholia is a day-in, day-out, night-in, night-out, almost arterial...”
– Kay R. Jamison, ‘An Unquiet Mind’
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“And even when you’re ready to let go. When you’re ready to break...”
– Tahereh Mafi, Unravel Me
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“Loneliness is a strange sort of thing. It creeps up on you, quiet and still,...”
– Tahereh Mafi, Unravel Me
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daylight-dreams asked: Your blog is like the mirror of my mind right now!
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“I would never be a part of anything. I would never really belong anywhere, and I...”
– Jean Rhys, Smile Please
March 2013
33 posts
7 tags
“I wonder why I don’t go to bed and go to sleep. But then it would be...”
– Sylvia Plath
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“She cannot avoid carrying out the act, except at the price of an unbearable...”
– Obsessive-compulsive anorexia (via betterthanbones)
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“But we are alone, darling child, terribly, isolated from each other; so fierce...”
– Truman Capote, Other Voices, Other Rooms
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“In this passionately social world, loneliness dogged the spirit. People were...”
– Olaf Stapledon, Star Maker
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“All these traces of his life seemed to seize hold of him and say to him:...”
– Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
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“Even as a child I felt two contradictory sentiments in my heart, the horror of...”
– Charles Baudelaire, My Heart Laid Bare
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“What twisted people we are. How simple we seem, or pretend to be in front of...”
– Roberto Bolaño, 2666
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“We spend our lives building higher fences and stronger locks, when the gravest...”
– Richard Paul Evans, The Sunflower
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“..I looked up at the mass of signs and stars in the night sky and laid myself...”
– Albert Camus, The Stranger
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“The mind is beautiful because of the paradox. It uses itself to understand...”
– Adam Elenbass (via catharinethegreat)
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“I no longer believe that we can keep silent. We never really do, mind you. In...”
– Azar Nafisi, Things I’ve Been Silent About
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“The difficulties (which other people surely find incredible) I have in speaking...”
– Franz Kafka, Diaries (via c-ovet)
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“When Buddha spoke about suffering, he wasn’t referring simply to superficial...”
– Lama Yeshe (via ageofreason)
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“there is a place in the heart that
will never be filled”
– no help for that, Charles Bukowski (via elisebrown)
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“Sometimes at night I suddenly become aware of all the things I’m missing out on...”
– Unknown (via aspirethesenses)
“This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for...”
– 14th Dalai Lama (via word-collector)
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“People who develop eating disorders often live ‘out of order.’ They have...”
– Gaining (via decisioni)
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“Were we born lonely?
Have we always been waiting
to be filled again?”
– Daily Haiku on Love by Tyler Knott Gregson (via tylerknott)
February 2013
6 posts
8 tags
“Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be...”
– Bell Hooks (via middlenameconfused)
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“Anything, anything would be better than this agony of mind, this creeping pain...”
– Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit (via miror)
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“Thus it can be seen that mental health is based on a certain degree of tension,...”
– ― Viktor E. Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning
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“It’s in the waiting
that I go quietly mad,
silently insane.”
– Daily Haiku on Love by Tyler Knott Gregson (via tylerknott)
January 2013
19 posts
14 tags
“Thinking beyond the present moment, into the past or future, was a sign of the...”
– Viktor Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning 