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#1

“She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous strands, appreciating its subtle nuances. She was a prism through which sadness could be divided into its infinite spectrum.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated

tags: grief, mourning, sadness, sorrow, suffering

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#2

“I don’t know what they are called, the spaces between seconds– but I think of you always in those intervals.”
― Salvador Plascencia, The People of Paper

tags: longing, love, sadness

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#3

“I went to bed and woke in the middle of the night thinking I heard someone cry, thinking I myself was weeping, and I felt my face and it was dry.

Then I looked at the window and thought: Why, yes, it's just the rain, the rain, always the rain, and turned over, sadder still, and fumbled about for my dripping sleep and tried to slip it back on.”
― Ray Bradbury, Green Shadows, White Whale

tags: melancholy, rain, sadness, sleep

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#4

“To some of us, the nights are too long. To some, the days. ”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted

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#5

“The world will always punish the few people with special talents the rest of us don’t recognize as real.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted

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#6

“That’s the American Dream: to make your life into something you can sell.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted

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#7

“I fainted....and you ate my ass?

You fed me my own ass?”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted

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#8

“Our humanity isn't measured by how we treat other people, our humanity is measured by how we treat animals.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted

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#9

“If you love something... Set it free." Just don't be surprised if it comes back with herpes”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted

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#10

“The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

tags: life, love

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#11

“All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

tags: god, humor, life

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#12

“Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct.”
― Chuck Palahniuk , Invisible Monsters

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#13

“Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everybody I've ever known.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

tags: effort, ever, known, original

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#14

“Another thing is no matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

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#15

“How can I not laugh? I'm already dead.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

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#16

“Each suburban wife struggles with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night- she was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question-- 'Is this all?”
― Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique

tags: existentialism, feminism, housekeeping, inspirational, marriage, parenting, purpose

592 likes

#17

“Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday; I can't be sure.”
― Albert Camus, The Stranger

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#18

“Six hundred and forty fish later, the only thing I know is everything you love will die. The first time you meet someone special, you can count on them one day being dead and in the ground.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor

tags: death, life, love, relationships

659 likes

#19

“For years now, I've wanted to fall asleep. The sort of slipping off, the giving up, the falling part of sleep. Now sleeping is the last thing I want to do.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

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#20

“Do not, under any circumstances, belittle a work of fiction by trying to turn it into a carbon copy of real life; what we search for in fiction is not so much reality but the epiphany of truth.”
― Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books

tags: books, reading

290 likes

#21

“If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

tags: loneliness

2314 likes

#22

“The point is there ain't no point.”
― Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men

tags: nihilism

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#23

“A society that believes in nothing can offer no argument even against death. A culture that has lost its faith in life cannot comprehend why it should be endured.”
― Andrew Coyne

tags: assisted-suicide, culture-of-death, death, euthanasia, nihilism, suicide

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#24

“The joke is, we all have the same punchline.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor

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#25

“If a tree falls in the forest and nobody is there to hear it, doesn't it just lie there and rot?”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor

tags: tree, trees

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#26

“These flowers will be rotten in a couple hours. Birds will crap on them. The smoke here will make them stink, and tomorrow a bulldozer will probably run over them, but for right now they are so beautiful.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor

tags: beauty, flowers

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#27

“You realize that there's no point in doing anything if nobody's watching.
You wonder, if there had been a low turnout at the crucifixion, would they have rescheduled?”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor

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#28

“Don’t ask me when because I don’t remember, but somewhere along the way I keep forgetting to commit suicide.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor

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#29

“The skeleton is just a way to keep your tissue off the floor.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor

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#30

“The first time you meet that someone special, you can count on them one day being dead and in the ground.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor

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