“We are little flames poorly sheltered by frail walls against the storm of dissolution and madness, in which we flicker and sometimes almost go out.”
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Marcel Proust
4 quotes“To determine not to think of it was but to think of it still, to suffer from it still.”
Neal Shusterman
3 quotes“You see demons in the eyes of the world, and the world sees a bottomless pit in yours.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky
3 quotes“I swear to you that to think too much is a disease, a real, actual disease.”
Markus Zusak
3 quotes“He killed himself for wanting to live.”
Henrik Ibsen
2 quotes“To live is - to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind”
Lord Byron
2 quotes“Nor ear can hear nor tongue can tell The tortures of that inward hell!”
Jeanette Winterson
2 quotes“We bury things so deep we no longer remember there was anything to bury. Our bodies remember. Our neurotic states rememb...”
Philip K. Dick
2 quotes“Perhaps if you know you are insane then you are not insane. Or you are becoming sane, finally.”
John Green
2 quotes“All hurt is brain hurt.”
Dalai Lama
2 quotes“The greater the level of calmness of our mind, the greater our peace of mind, the greater our ability to enjoy a happy a...”
Marilyn Monroe
2 quotes“When you're young and healthy you can plan on Monday to commit suicide, and by Wednesday you're laughing again.”
Charles R. Swindoll
2 quotes“Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it.”