Eva > Eva's Quotes

“I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.”
― J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey

“Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“The most dangerous sicknesses are those that make us believe we are well”
― Lauren Oliver, Delirium

“Love is heavy and light, bright and dark, hot and cold, sick and healthy, asleep and awake- its everything except what it is! (Act 1, scene 1)”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo & Juliet

“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”
― J. Krishnamurti

“The greatest hazard of all, losing one’s self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all. No other loss can occur so quietly; any other loss - an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife, etc. - is sure to be noticed.”
― Søren Kierkegaard, The Sickness Unto Death: A Christian Psychological Exposition for Upbuilding and Awakening

“A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption.”
― Guy de Maupassant, Le Horla et autres contes fantastiques

“And I've fallen.

So hard.

I've hit the ground. Gone right through it. Never in my life have I felt this. Nothing like this. I've felt shame and cowardice, weakness and strength. I've known terror and indifference, self-hate and general disgust. I've seen things that cannot be unseen.

And yet I've known nothing like this terrible, horrible, paralyzing feeling. I feel crippled. Desperate and out of control. And it keeps getting worse. Every day I feel sick. Empty and somehow aching.

Love is a heartless bastard.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Destroy Me

“Man, I'm sick of doubt.”
― Jim Morrison

“Why then, O brawling love! O loving hate!
O any thing, of nothing first create!
O heavy lightness, serious vanity,
Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms,
Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health,
Still-waking sleep, that is not what it is!
This love feel I, that feel no love in this.”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

“When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself.”
― Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes

“But I know loving someone means losing a part of myself.”
― Simone Elkeles, Perfect Chemistry

“I did not lose myself all at once. I rubbed out my face over the years washing away my pain, the same way carvings on stone are worn down by water. ”
― Amy Tan

“I lock eyes with my reflection and don’t look away. The day you look away you start to lose yourself. I’m never going to lose myself. You are what you are. Deal with it or change.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Iced

“She had lost all our memories for ever, and it was as though by dying she had robbed me of part of myself. I was losing my individuality. It was the first stage of my own death, the memories dropping off like gangrened limbs.”
― Graham Greene

“Sometimes I feel like I'm slowly floating away. I'm constantly looking for something to grab on to so I don't lose myself.”
― Kasie West, Pivot Point

“I'm having an argument with myself. And I'm losing. So not good.”
― Cynthia Hand, Hallowed

“Search for the answers I knew all along;
I lost myself,
We all fall down;
Never the wiser of what I've become
Alone I stand,
A broken man...

All I have is one last chance.
I won't turn my back on you.
Take my hand,
Drag me down.
If you fall,
Then I will too.
And I can't save what's left of you...

(Chorus)
Sing something new,
I have nothing left.
I can't face the dark without you.
There's nothing left to lose,
The fight never ends.
I can't face the dark without you.

Swallow me under and pull me apart.
I understand;
There's nothing left.
Pain so familiar and close to the heart;
No more no less,
I won't forget.

Come back down,
Save yourself.
I can't find my way to you.
And I can't bear to face the truth...

(chorus)

I wanted to forgive;
I'm trying to forget;
Don't leave me here again.
I am with you, forever, the end.

(chorus)

Holding the hand that holds me down.
I forgive you, forget you, the end.

Holding the hand that holds me down.
I forgive you, forget you, the end.

(classical finish)”
― Breaking Benjamin

“I note how calm she looks and how focused she is. She is well-practiced in the art of losing herself. I can't say the same of myself.”
― Veronica Roth, Divergent

“I find myself only by losing myself.”
― Paul Ricoeur

“I lose and find myself in the long water. I am gathered together once more. ”
― Theodore Roethke

“I don't recognize myself. I don't know who I am anymore."
And it's all fun and games until someone loses an I.”
― Don Winslow, Savages

“When there's nothing left to lose, and nothing else to prove, I'll be dancing with myself”
― Billy Idol

“Yes, I've lost him. But I don't have to lose myself.”
― Lenore Appelhans, Level 2

“I don't do relationships because I don't want to love and lose myself.”
― J.C. Reed, Surrender Your Love

“I try to busy myself elsewhere, to arrive late; but I always lose at this game. Whatever I do, I find myself there, with nothing to do, punctual, even ahead of time.”
― Roland Barthes

“Looking at a sea bird flapping its wings against the full moon I wish I could grow wings and fly away from everything and be free. I wish I could lose myself in the vast ocean and float away from all this pain in my heart.”
― Monica James, I Surrender

“I know that this time, the worst thing I can do is let go. And I won't be losing anything. Because it's the most selfish thing I could ever do—to allow myself to fall for someone worthwhile.”
― Kirsten Hubbard, Wanderlove

“The marks humans leave are too often scars.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Turn your wounds into wisdom.”
― Oprah Winfrey