"Those truly linked don't need correspondence. When they meet again after many years apart, Their friendship is as true as ever."
— Ming-Dao Deng

"Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible."
— Carl Gustav Jung

"A good friend is a connection to life- a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world."
— Lois Wyse

""You can't spend your whole life criticizing something and then, when you have the chance to do it better, refuse to go near it." "
— Václav Havel

"You always have a choice as to who you are in the next moment."
— Frankl

"Humor is reason gone mad."
— Groucho Marx

"We are all born mad. Some remain so."
— Samuel Beckett

"You're only given a spark of madness. You musn't lose it."
— Robin P. Williams

"You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you mad."
— Aldous Huxley

"Anybody remotely interesting is mad, in some way or another."
— The Doctor

"A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on. A psychotic is a guy who's just found out what's going on."
— William S. Burroughs

"You were not there for the beginning. You will not be there for the end. Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative"
— William S. Burroughs (Naked Lunch: The Restored Text)

"The first and most important thing an individual can do is to become an individual again, decontrol himself, train himself as to what is going on and win back as much independent ground for himself as possible"
— William S. Burroughs

"There are no innocent bystanders ... what are they doing there in the first place?"
— William S. Burroughs

"Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape. "
— William S. Burroughs

"[...] the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes 'Awww!' What did they call such young people in Goethe's Germany?"
— Jack Kerouac (On the Road)

"Offer them what they secretly want and they of course immediately become panic-stricken."
— Jack Kerouac

"It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane."
— Philip K. Dick

"Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat."
— Henry Emerson Fosdick

"What they do not comprehend is man's helplessness. I am weak, small, of no consequence to the universe. It does not notice me; I live on unseen. But why is that bad? Isn't it that way? Whom the gods notice they destroy. Be small... and you will escape the jealousy of the great."
— Philip K. Dick

"Truth, she thought. As terrible as death. But harder to find."
— Philip K. Dick (The Man in the High Castle)

"The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Invisible Monsters)

"This is my knife. It is very sharp and very eager to hurt you."
— Lemony Snicket (The Reptile Room)

"Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend."
— Albert Camus

"Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal."
— Albert Camus

"You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question."
— Albert Camus (The Fall)

"Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present."
— Albert Camus

"As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; for the first time, in that night alive with signs and stars, I opened myself up to the gentle indifference of the world. Finding it so much like myself - so like a brother, really - I felt that I had been happy and that I was happy again. For everything to be consummated, for me to feel less alone, I had only to wish that there be a large crowd of spectators the day of my execution and that they greet me with cries of hate."
— Albert Camus (L'etranger)

"You always get exaggerated notions about things you don't know anything about."
— Albert Camus

"Can't we sleep ten minutes more? I was having a lovely dream about sneezing without covering my mouth, and giving everybody germs."
— Lemony Snicket

"Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?"
— Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)

"Is that a bulletproof vest? See, now that's so insulting. That's like saying I'm not smart enough to shoot you in the head."
Eddie DeChooch"
— Janet Evanovich (Seven Up)

"Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein."
— H. Jackson Brown Jr.

"You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life."
— Winston S. Churchill

"Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about."
— Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray)

"When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them."
— Marilyn Monroe

"You spend your whole life trying to get people to like you and then you run over one person with your car - not even one of the popular ones - and everybody gets on your case. Doesn't make any sense."
— Michael Scott

"Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Invisible Monsters)

"You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Survivor)

"When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat?"
— Chuck Palahniuk (Invisible Monsters)

"...the only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Invisible Monsters)

"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored."
— Aldous Huxley

"For in spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody."
— Aldous Huxley

"Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough."
— William Saroyan

"Everybody can get angry, that's easy. But getting angry at the right person, with the right intensity, at the right time, for the right reason and in the right way that's hard." "
— (Aristotle)

"It is easy to fly into a passion--anybody can do that. But to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and with the right object and in the right way--that is not easy, and it is not everyone who can do it."
— Aristotle

"Anger is just a cowardly extension of sadness. It's a lot easier to be angry at someone than it is to tell them you're hurt."
— Tom Gates

"Whoever it is you fall in love with for the first time, not just love but be in love with, is the one who will always make you angry, the one you can't be logical about.

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— Jeanette Winterson (The Passion)

"Stability isn't nearly so spectacular as instability. And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune, none of the picturesqueness of a struggle with temptation, or a fatal overthrow by passion of doubt. Happiness is never grand."
— Aldous Huxley (Brave New World)

"ASSUMPTIONS

When you assume you make a you-know-what out of U and me. Yep, so let's stop assuming so much. We are often quick to explain details to strangers, who we understand might not be reading our minds, but we often assume that those people closest to us, those who share our household such as spouses, children parents and siblings, can read our minds. And we get upset with them when they don't go figure.

I wonder how many angry words are directed not at an action or inaction as would at first appear, but simply at the fact that somebody did not read our minds.

So let's give those people we care most about the benefit of the doubt and do a little less assuming and a little more explaining."
— David Leonhardt