September 2012
88 posts
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Depression presents itself as a realism regarding the rottenness of the world in...
– Jonathan Franzen, How to Be Alone
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I felt that I was not, never had been and never would be a living part of this...
– John Knowles, A Separate Peace (via selfinspiration)
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He found solace in what he wrote. It was an attempt to discover who he was at...
– Brian Kans, A Constant Suicide
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August 2012
90 posts
17 tags
No matter how much I feel, I’m not going to let it out. If I have to cry, I’m...
– Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (via durianquotes)
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I wasn’t lonely.
I experienced no self-pity.
I was just caught up in a
life...
– Charles Bukowski (via durianquotes)
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I don’t want to be alone. I have never wanted to be alone. I fucking hate it. I...
– James Frey (via durianquotes)
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I was a man who thrived on solitude; without it I was like another man without...
– Charles Bukowski
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I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.
– Haruki Murakami, 1Q84
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Every heart has its secret sorrows which the world knows not, and oftentimes we...
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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How does a human being who needs meaning find meaning in a universe that has no...
– Existential Psychotherapy
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I do not want to pass the time. I want to grab hold of it and leave my mark upon...
– Libba Bray, The Sweet Far Thing
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I finally figured out that I’m solitary by nature, but at the same time I know...
– Charles de Lint (via claudere)
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With every increase in the degree of consciousness, and in proportion to that...
– Kierkegaard
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I felt the ground on which I stood crumbling, that there was nothing for me to...
– Leo Tolstoy
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Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different...
– Hermann Hesse (via larmoyante)
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When the body weeps tears of blood, we need to wonder what terrible sorrows...
– Sharon K Farber
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update.
[[MORE]]I am sitting in my new dorm room.
I feel anxious. So much uncertainty. So many new people.
I got here last night and met my new roommate who seems pretty nice; I don’t think we’d be great friends or anything, but good roommates. Anyway I had to loft my bed by myself because no one else was around. OMG hardest thing ever. I literally had to lift my bed by myself, put the...
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update.
[[MORE]]Being home has been a complete surprise. I honestly have had such a good time, I don’t want to leave. My step-father’s niece whose 24 and in law school came to our house with her boyfriend for a few days. She was seriously the nicest girl ever, I had never met her before yet I felt like we had been good friends for years. I was so nervous it would be awkward, but it...
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firimar asked: Hi i'm a former cutter and sufferer of clinical depression. I remember feeling like it was all hopeless like nothing could get better, like I was disgusting, but cuz I asked for help, and I listened to the people who loved me and the people who understood what I was going through I was able to be happy again and love my body, you can too, you deserve to. please message me if u ever feel bad...
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That was one of the saddest things about people—their most important thoughts...
– Alexandra Adornetto (via selfinspiration)
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I think I have always had the misguided sense that worry and fear serve as an...
– Emily Giffin, Baby Proof
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…he believed that if you wanted to get rid of a hole, you filled it. He...
– Jodi Picoult
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For a second, I felt a bottomless sadness. So completely alone. Like one of my...
– Augusten Burroughs, Running with Scissors
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Sooner or later most of us arrive at a time in our lives where we say to...
– Perfectly Imperfect
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Only after one has fully considered suicide does one take one’s life...
– Nietszche
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The individual attempts to separate himself, to individuate, to affirm his...
– Existential Psychotherapy