I Never Said I Loved You Quotes

“I was on top of my emails but, my God, at what cost?”
― Rhik Samadder, I Never Said I Loved You

“Starting again isn’t starting from nothing, because you take the person you are with you.”
― Rhik Samadder, I Never Said I Loved You

“I asked myself if I really wanted to die. At times before, the answer had been yes. The option felt preferable to long, claustrophobic years of panic attacks and depression, after which I would die anyway. From a utilitarian point of view, wasn’t it less pain overall?”
― Rhik Samadder, I Never Said I Loved You

“Depression is a disease of philosophy – the philosophical aspect being its profound confrontation with pointlessness.”
― Rhik Samadder, I Never Said I Loved You

“The average lifespan is a thousand months, less in fact, and I have spent at least four of them trying to persuade the website LinkedIn to stop emailing me.”
― Rhik Samadder, I Never Said I Loved You

“How does one survive a life? For some reason, this is the thought that has been pressing itself upon my mind since I made a decision to write about – well, my mind. Specifically, the way it goes wrong.”
― Rhik Samadder, I Never Said I Loved You

“Live in generosity and compassion and gentleness, and try to be better every day. But trying to keep others safe from yourself will lead to cutting yourself off. The kind of life that keeps us warm, one rich in people and places and experiences, is messy. People’s damage interacts in unpredictable ways, and that’s the negotiation, and that’s okay. People are tougher than you think. The mess is where the growth is.”
― Rhik Samadder, I Never Said I Loved You

“I’ve spent a long time battling fears that have the talent of resurrection. I’m afraid that I cannot outrun my own mind, and the ways in which it goes wrong. That I will get worse, not better. That one day something truly awful will happen.”
― Rhik Samadder, I Never Said I Loved You

“Philosophy tells me there’s no reason to trust the sun’s rise each morning, but it’s never let me down. It’s hard to get through life without a little faith, even if it’s just in this.”
― Rhik Samadder, I Never Said I Loved You

“I was struck by the absence of sound in the room. Butchering myself in silence, despite a screaming brain, because we cry out from the shock, not the pain.”
― Rhik Samadder, I Never Said I Loved You

“Self-harming was not about wanting to die. It was a way to externalise my feelings, so they made sense; not deathly, but a need for coherence.”
― Rhik Samadder, I Never Said I Loved You

“Stay open, because life only gets richer as it unfolds. We know the end of the story, but not how we get there, or who we’ll be when we do.”
― Rhik Samadder, I Never Said I Loved You

“We lay down on the crossroads in the middle of a new country, in the middle of the night, Milky Way spread out above us. I realised how common shooting stars are in true darkness; one only has to lie still, and look up.”
― Rhik Samadder, I Never Said I Loved You

“This is how abusers get away with it – exploit ignorance or weakness, make others feel the guilt they should be feeling, and keep their secrets for them. They have a triple lock on our silence.”
― Rhik Samadder, I Never Said I Loved You

“No one tells you the truth about adulthood, which is that you spend most of it missing people, and only a handful of moments last. Sometimes we have to force ourselves to not shut out the people we love, because they’re all that keeps us here.”
― Rhik Samadder, I Never Said I Loved You

“I am, visibly, extravagantly lazy. Not once in my life has a bro been moved to enquire if I lift.”
― Rhik Samadder, I Never Said I Loved You