Killjoy > Killjoy's Quotes

“I have every respect for people who follow their passions, but I prefer stability.”
― Naoise Dolan, Exciting Times

“Kad treba preboljeti razočarenje, nema ničeg boljeg od rada.”
― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

“What's going on in my head? What do I believe? How much of it is me, and how much of it was put there?
I don't know.”
― Andrew Joseph White, Hell Followed With Us

“It’s only after you’ve stepped outside your comfort zone that you begin to change, grow, and transform.”
― Roy T. Bennett

“I'd burn anything down if you so much asked”
― Andrew Joseph White, Hell Followed With Us

“Oh, life is too painful, the reality that confirms the universal belief that it is best not to be born.”
― Osamu Dazai, The Setting Sun

“I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“I will never leave him. It will be this, always, for as long as he will let me.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“But there was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

“In some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

“Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

“Dostoevski said once, "There is only one thing I dread: not to be worthy of my sufferings." These words frequently came to my mind after I became acquainted with those martyrs whose behavior in camp, whose suffering and death, bore witness to the fact that the last inner freedom cannot be lost. It can be said that they were worthy of the their sufferings; the way they bore their suffering was a genuine inner achievement. It is this spiritual freedom—which cannot be taken away—that makes life meaningful and purposeful.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones

“No sin so dangerous as the sin that is chosen.

No sin so glorious as the sin that is shared.”
― Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Vampire

“Love is knowing when you've come home.”
― Trent Dalton, Love Stories

“The only cure for grief is to grieve. The only cure for hurt is to hurt. Every tear is a tribute. Every tear is a memory, every memory a treasure. Cry buckets and then when your bucket is full, poor your collective tears over your garden flowers and watch them bloom in all the sunrises of your grieving.”
― Trent Dalton, Love Stories