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"Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush, a cloud, whatever you will, even a man, only no longer make me."

Lichtenberg, Georg C. on suicide    Share


"When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on suicide
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"He who does not accept and respect those who want to reject life does not truly accept and respect life itself."

Szasz, Thomas on suicide
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"Take me, I am the drug; take me, I am hallucinogenic."

Dali, Salvador on drugs
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"Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o clock is a scoundrel."

Johnson, Samuel on night
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"The night is a skin pulled over the head of day that the day may be in torment."

Barnes, Djuna on night    Share

"Night brings our troubles to the light, rather than banishes them."

Seneca on night
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"Beware thoughts that come in the night. They aren't turned properly; they come in askew, free of sense and restriction, deriving from the most remote of sources."

Trogdon, William on night
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"Some of your grief you have cured, and lived to survive; but what torments of pain have you endured that haven't as yet arrived."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on anxiety
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"Nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman."

Wilde, Oscar on romance and romanticism
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"I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life."

Heath, David M. on life    Share

"Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them."

Epictetus on belief
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"Men are nicotine soaked, beer besmirched, whiskey greased, red-eyed devils."

Nation, Carry on men    Share

"Do you remember the things you were worrying about a year ago? How did they work out? Didn't you waste a lot of fruitless energy on account of most of them? Didn't most of them turn out all right after all?"

Carnegie, Dale on worry
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"Don't follow any advice, no matter how good, until you feel as deeply in your spirit as you think in your mind that the counsel is wise."

Seabury, David on advice
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"What has been will be again. What has been done will be done again... [Ecclesiastes 1:9]"

Bible on cycles    Share

"Not a day went past when I was not filled with loathing and disgust at the decisions I had to make."

Monash, John on
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"Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies."

Aristotle on love
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"It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him."

Duras, Marguerite on love
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"I have often repented speaking, but never of holding my tongue."

Xenocrates of Chalcedon on silence    Share

"It takes far less courage to kill yourself than it takes to make yourself wake up one more time. It is harder to stay where you are than to get out."

Rossner, Judith on courage
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"Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom."

Kierkegaard, Søren on anxiety
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"Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attraction of others."

Wilde, Oscar on wickedness
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"Hurt's a reason to change, but all the hurt in the world don't change facts."

King, Stephen on pain
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"On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points."

Woolf, Virginia on pain
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"The pain of the mind is worse than the pain of the body."

Syrus, Publilius on pain
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"I can resist everything except temptation."

Wilde, Oscar on temptation
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"At great periods you have always felt, deep within you, the temptation to commit suicide. You gave yourself to it, breached your own defenses. You were a child. The idea of suicide was a protest against life; by dying, you would escape this longing for death."

Pavese, Cesare on suicide
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"Drunkenness is temporary suicide."

Russell, Bertrand on alcohol and alcoholism
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"No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide."

Pavese, Cesare on suicide
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"It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on suicide
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"Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities."

Bukowski, Charles on bachelor
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"That is what friendship means. Sharing the prejudice of experience."

Bukowski, Charles on friends and friendship
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"If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on women
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"O sleep, O gentle sleep, nature's soft nurse, how have I frightened thee, that thou no more wilt weigh my eye-lids down and steep my senses in forgetfulness?"

Shakespeare, William on insomnia
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"The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready, and it may be a long time before they get off."

Thoreau, Henry David on independence
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"Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse."

Unknown, Source on love
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"Tolerance is only another name for indifference."

Maugham, W. Somerset on tolerance    Share

"Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep."

Beaumont, Francis on death
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"Death -- the last sleep? No, it is the final awakening."

Scott, Sir Walter on death
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