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#1

“I didn’t like dogs. Not because they scared me—they didn’t—but because their deaths were so much harder to take than people’s.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, Eileen

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#2

“I'd never learned how to relate to people, much less how to speak up for myself. I preferred to sit and rage quietly.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, Eileen

tags: disaffected, eileen, ottessa-moshfegh, outsider, put-upon, suffer-in-silence, unspoken

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#3

“I hoped they saw right through my death mask to my sad and fiery soul, though I doubt they saw me at all.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, Eileen

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#4

“People died all the time. Why couldn't I?”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, Eileen

tags: eileen, ottessa-moshfegh, suicidal

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#5

“I waste at least an hour every day lying in bed. Then I waste time pacing. I waste time thinking. I waste time being quiet and not saying anything because I'm afraid I'll stutter.”
― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story

tags: depression, sadness, suicide

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#6

“People are screwed up in this world. I'd rather be with someone screwed up and open about it than somebody perfect and ready to explode.”
― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story

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#7

“I don't know how I can be so ambitious and so lazy at the same time.”
― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story

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#8

“The problem with people is they forget that most of the time it's the small things that count.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

tags: all-the-bright-places, happiness, inspiration, life

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#9

“I do my best thinking at night when everyone else is sleeping. No interruptions. No noise. I like the feeling of being awake when no one else is.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

tags: happy, love, mind, peace, relaxation, sleep, thoughts

1109 likes

#10

“When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: concern, empathy, listening, understanding-others

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#11

“Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne

tags: inspirational, life-happiness

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#12

“I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.”
― Franz Kafka

tags: writing

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#13

“The meaning of life is that it stops.”
― Franz Kafka

tags: death, life

2188 likes

#14

“He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.”
― Franz Kafka

tags: death, dying, fear, franz, kafka, life

1241 likes

#15

“You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.”
― Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

tags: kafka, letters, love

1366 likes

#16

“Even if I'm not loved, I still want to love. To love someone from the bottom of your heart, is the simplest thing in the world. So why is it so difficult?”
― Ai Yazawa

tags: ai-yazawa, nana, romance

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