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#1

“To hang on from day to day and from week to week, spinning out a present that had no future, seemed an unconquerable instinct, just as one's lungs will always draw the next breath so long as there is air available.”
― George Orwell, 1984

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#2

“That's all I can do. I'll keep at it and hope it gets better.”
― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story

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#3

“All these conversations had left a certain sediment in his soul, and he didn’t know what it was. It wasn’t dissolving with time, but instead kept accumulating and accumulating.”
― Arkady Strugatsky, Roadside Picnic

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#4

“Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: abuse, abuse-survivors, agony, agony-of-torture, chronic-pain, pain, torture

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#5

“Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: 1984, human, intellectual, mind, reality

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#6

“Man is born in order to think (there he is, Kirill, finally!). Except that I don't believe that. I've never believed it, and I still don't believe it, and what man is born for -I have no idea. He's born, that's all. Scrapes by as best he can.”
― Boris Strugatsky, Roadside Picnic

tags: human-condition, meaning-of-life

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#7

“If you are chronically down, it is a lifelong fight to keep from sinking ”
― Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation

tags: depression

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#8

“Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost

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#9

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

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#10

“I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad. It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare you're so relieved. I woke up into a nightmare.”
― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story

tags: depression, sadness, suicide

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#11

“Life is a nightmare.”
― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story

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#12

“My family shouldn't have to put up with me. They're good people, solid, happy. Sometimes when I'm with them I think I'm on television.”
― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story

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#13

“Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

tags: pain, sadness, stoicism

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#16

“When I'm lying in my bed I think about life and I think about death and neither one particularly appeals to me.”
― Morrissey

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#16

“I called to wish you an unhappy birthday because you're evil and you lie and if you should die I may feel slightly sad, but I won't cry.”
― Morrissey

tags: song-lyrics

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#17

“C´mon, Manchester, ´says singer Boy George, ´I thought you were supposed to be hip?´ No, we´re just automaton snobs with an excess of intolerance -- you really must forgive us.”
― Morrissey, Autobiography

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#17

“Burn down the disco
Hang the blessed D.J.
Because the music that they constantly play
It says nothing to me about my life”
― Steven Morrissey

tags: music

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#18

“I honestly begin every single day with the intention of avoiding people.”
― Morrissey

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#20

“It was probably nothing but it felt like the world.”
― Morrissey, Autobiography

tags: probably-nothing

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#20

“It is considered odd that a boy so young should care so much.”
― Morrissey, Autobiography

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#21

“Last night I dreamt that somebody loved me.
No hope, no harm; just another false alarm”
― Morrissey

tags: humor, lyrics, music

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#22

“I was wasting my time, praying for love.
For a love that never comes, from someone who does not exist.”
― Morrissey

tags: humor, life, love, lyrics, music

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#23

“I was never young. This idea of fun: cars, girls, saturday night, bottle of wine... to me, these things are morbid. I was always attracted to people with the same problems as me. It doesn't help when most of them are dead.”
― Morrissey

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#24

“I shake like a ship in a storm. It is a fact that even warming moments overwhelm me with despair, and this is why I am I.”
― Morrissey, Autobiography

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#25

“David [Bowie] quietly tells me, ‘You know, I’ve had so much sex and drugs that I can’t believe I’m still alive,’ and I loudly tell him, ‘You know, I’ve had SO LITTLE sex and drugs that I can’t believe I’m still alive.”
― Morrissey, Autobiography

tags: david-bowie, morrissey

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#26

“Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull. ”
― George Orwell, 1984

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#27

“It’s tough to get out of bed; I know that myself. You can lie there for an hour and a half without thinking anything, just worrying about what the day holds and knowing that you won’t be able to deal with it.”
― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story

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#28

“I want to live but I want to die. What do I do?”
― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story

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#29

“I don't want any more of this try, try again stuff. I just want out. I’ve had it. I am so tired. I am twenty and I am already exhausted.”
― Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation

tags: depression

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#30

“Interviewer: Did you hear t.A.T.u's version of 'How Soon Is Now'?

Morrissey: Yes, it was magnificent. Absolutely. Again, I don't know much about them.

Interviewer: They're the teenage Russian lesbians.

Morrissey: Well, aren't we all?”
― Morrissey

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