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#1
“By four o'clock, I've discounted suicide in favor of killing everyone else in the entire world instead.”
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Warren Ellis,
Transmetropolitan, Vol. 3: Year of the Bastard
tags:
misanthropy
,
optimism
,
suicide
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#2
“Do you hate people?”
“I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.”
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Charles Bukowski,
Barfly
tags:
humour
,
misanthropy
,
paraphrased
13388 likes
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#3
“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
―
Charles Bukowski
tags:
humor
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#4
“I wanted the whole world or nothing.”
―
Charles Bukowski,
Post Office
5106 likes
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#5
“I never met another man I'd rather be. And even if that's a delusion, it's a lucky one.”
―
Charles Bukowski
tags:
bukowski
903 likes
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#6
“And yet women-good women--frightened me because they eventually wanted your soul, and what was left of mine, I wanted to keep.”
―
Charles Bukowski,
Women
956 likes
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#7
“It wasn’t my day. My week. My month. My year. My life. God damn it.”
―
Charles Bukowski,
Pulp: Charles Bukowski's Final Hardboiled Noir Comedy – Lady Death, Aliens, and the Absurd
tags:
life
1105 likes
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#8
“If you are going to try, go all the way or don't even start. If you follow it you will be alive with the gods. It is the only good fight there is.”
―
Charles Bukowski
283 likes
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#9
“Some people like what you do, some people hate what you do, but most people simply don’t give a damn.”
―
Charles Bukowski
383 likes
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#10
“There is a place in the heart that will never be filled; a space. And even during the best moments, and the greatest times, we will know it.”
―
Charles Bukowski
288 likes
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#11
“People empty me. I have to get away to refill.”
―
Charles Bukowski
504 likes
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#12
“I knew I was strong, and maybe like they said, "crazy." But I had this feeling inside of me that something real was there.”
―
Charles Bukowski,
Ham on Rye
204 likes
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#13
“Populus me sibilat, at mihi plaudo
Ipse domi stimul ac nummos contemplar in arca.
(The public hiss at me, but I cheer myself when in my own house I contemplate the coins in my strong-box.)”
―
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle,
A Study in Scarlet
414 likes
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#14
“You could rattle the stars," she whispered. "You could do anything, if only you dared. And deep down, you know it, too. That’s what scares you most.”
―
Sarah J. Maas,
Throne of Glass
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#15
“She's the Queen Bitch of Castle Hell. If you mess with her, she'll eat you alive.”
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Stephen King,
Doctor Sleep
tags:
danny-torrance
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doctor-sleep
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rose
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stephen-king
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#16
“The sad truth is the truth is sad.”
―
Lemony Snicket,
The Hostile Hospital
2479 likes
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#17
“Miracles are like meatballs, because nobody can exactly agree on what they are made of, where they come from, or how often they should appear.”
―
Lemony Snicket,
The Carnivorous Carnival
tags:
humor-miracles
1582 likes
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#18
“A library is like an island in the middle of a vast sea of ignorance, particularly if the library is very tall and the surrounding area has been flooded.”
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Lemony Snicket,
Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid
tags:
library
1467 likes
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#19
“With great power... comes great need to take a nap. Wake me up later.”
―
Rick Riordan,
The Last Olympian
tags:
nico
13442 likes
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#20
“
Yuyeh sesh.
Despise your heart.
Ni weh sesh.
I have no heart.”
―
Leigh Bardugo,
Ruin and Rising
tags:
proverb
569 likes
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#21
“Because the world is so full of death and horror, I try again and again to console my heart and pick the flowers that grow in the midst of hell.”
―
Herman Hesse,
Narcissus and Goldmund
tags:
narcissus-and-goldmund
562 likes
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#22
“But I am a blasted tree; the bolt has entered my soul; and I felt then that I should survive to exhibit, what I shall soon cease to be - a miserable spectacle of wrecked humanity, pitiable to others, and intolerable to myself.”
―
Mary Shelley,
Frankenstein
47 likes
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#23
“she walked through the fire
wearing nothing but a smile
because she knew damn well
that she’d bring her demons
to their knees”
―
R.H. Sin,
She Felt Like Feeling Nothing (Volume 1)
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#24
“She wears strength and darkness equally well,
The girl has always been half goddess, half hell”
―
Nikita Gill,
Fierce Fairytales: Poems and Stories to Stir Your Soul
tags:
darkness
,
strength
,
strong-woman
494 likes
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#25
“One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.”
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Cassandra Clare,
Clockwork Angel
tags:
books
21083 likes
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#26
“Trust is like a mirror, you can fix it if it's broken, but you can still see the crack in that mother fucker's reflection.”
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Lady Gaga
tags:
beyonce
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lady-gaga
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mirror
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trust
3281 likes
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#27
“Scott, if your life had a face, I would punch it. I would punch your life in the face.”
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Bryan Lee O'Malley,
Scott Pilgrim, Volume 4: Scott Pilgrim Gets It Together
304 likes
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#28
“Stephen... you know how, when a baby is first born, it just cries at the sheer horror of being alive?”
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Bryan Lee O'Malley,
Scott Pilgrim & The Infinite Sadness
tags:
humor
26 likes
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#29
“Let's be friends based on mutual hate."
- Wallace Wells
"Listen to this, okay? Just listen. You hear that? That's' market bacon hitting the pan. Today a child is born unto us, and his name will be bacon."
- Wallace Wells”
―
Bryan Lee O'Malley,
Scott Pilgrim & The Infinite Sadness
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#30
“You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever. I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own, than when you almost broke it eight years and a half ago.”
―
Jane Austen,
Persuasion
tags:
captain-wentworth
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