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  • #1
    Charlotte Brontë
    “The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely.”
    Charlotte Brontë

  • #2
    Sylvia Plath
    “God, but life is loneliness, despite all the opiates, despite the shrill tinsel gaiety of "parties" with no purpose, despite the false grinning faces we all wear. And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter - they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long. Yes, there is joy, fulfillment and companionship - but the loneliness of the soul in its appalling self-consciousness is horrible and overpowering.”
    Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

  • #3
    Mitch Albom
    “The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we are alone.”
    Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven

  • #4
    Jostein Gaarder
    “A joker is a little fool who is different from everyone else. He's not a club, diamond, heart, or spade. He's not an eight or a nine, a king or a jack. He is an outsider. He is placed in the same pack as the other cards, but he doesn't belong there. Therefore, he can be removed without anybody missing him.”
    Jostein Gaarder, The Solitaire Mystery

  • #5
    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    Frank Zappa

  • #6
    Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You
    “Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
    C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

  • #7
    André Gide
    “It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
    Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves

  • #8
    William Shakespeare
    “Love all, trust a few,
    Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy
    Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend
    Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence,
    But never tax'd for speech.”
    William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well

  • #9
    J.K. Rowling
    “I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

  • #10
    J.K. Rowling
    “It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all—in which case, you fail by default.”
    J.K. Rowling

  • #11
    J.K. Rowling
    “Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

  • #12
    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.”
    Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

  • #13
    Toni Morrison
    “If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
    Toni Morrison

  • #14
    Paulo Coelho
    “Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second's encounter with God and with eternity.”
    Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

  • #15
    Hans Christian Andersen
    “But a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffers so much more.”
    Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid

  • #16
    John Milton
    “Where the bright seraphim in burning row
    Their loud uplifted angel trumpets blow.”
    John Milton, The Complete Poetry

  • #17
    Augusten Burroughs
    “I used to feel so alone in the city. All those gazillions of people and then me, on the outside. Because how do you meet a new person? I was very stunned by this for many years. And then I realized, you just say, "Hi." They may ignore you. Or you may marry them. And that possibility is worth that one word.”
    Augusten Burroughs

  • #18
    Abigail Van Buren
    “You could move.' ---"Dear Abby" responds to a reader who complained that a gay couple was moving in across the street and wanted to know what he could do to improve the quality of the neighborhood.”
    Abigail Van Buren

  • #19
    Joseph Campbell
    “Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble.”
    Joseph Campbell

  • #20
    Joseph Campbell
    “Half the people in the world think that the metaphors of their religious traditions, for example, are facts. And the other half contends that they are not facts at all. As a result we have people who consider themselves believers because they accept metaphors as facts, and we have others who classify themselves as atheists because they think religious metaphors are lies.”
    Joseph Campbell, Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor

  • #21
    Joseph Campbell
    “Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.”
    Joseph Campbell

  • #22
    Rollo May
    “It is interesting to note how many of the great scientific discoveries begin as myths.”
    Rollo May, The Cry for Myth

  • #23
    Rollo May
    “Artistic symbols and myths speak out of the primordial, preconscious realm of the mind which is powerful and chaotic. Both symbol and myth are ways of bringing order and form into this chaos.”
    Rollo May, My Quest for Beauty

  • #24
    Felipe Fernández-Armesto
    “There has never been nationhood without falsehood.”
    Felipe Fernández-Armesto

  • #25
    Sam Harris
    “It is merely an accident of history that it is considered normal in our society to believe that the Creator of the universe can hear your thoughts while it is demonstrative of mental illness to believe that he is communicating with you by having the rain tap in Morse code on your bedroom window.”
    Sam Harris, The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason

  • #26
    Sylvia Plath
    “I wanted to tell her that if only something were wrong with my body it would be fine, I would rather have anything wrong with my body than something wrong with my head, but the idea seemed so involved and wearisome that I didn’t say anything. I only burrowed down further in the bed.”
    Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar



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