![[I] learned ... that friends are a good source of food and soul when one has not yet gotten the hang of cooking or living (as opposed to dying) alone. That nothing-not booze, not love, not sex, not work, not moving from state to state-will make the past disappear. Only time and patience heal things. I learned that cutting up your arms in an attempt to make the pain move from inside to outside, from soul to skin, is futile. That death is a cop-out. I tried all of these things.](/assets/img/quote-photos/i-learned-that-friends-are-a-good-source-of-food-and-soul-when-one-has-not.jpg)
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depression pain heart
Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say “My tooth is aching” than to say “My heart is broken. C. S. Lewis
depression fall eye
Look at that ugly dead mask here and do not forget it. It is a chalk mask with dead dry poison behind it, like the death angel. It is what I was this fall, and what I never want to be again. The pouting disconsolate mouth, the flat, bored, numb, expressionless eyes: symptoms of the foul decay within. Sylvia Plath
depression crazy insane
When you are insane, you are busy being insane-all the time ... when I was crazy, that was all I was.
depression simple giving
Depression is not sobbing and crying and giving vent, it is plain and simple reduction of feeling. Judith Guest
depression men melancholy
A melancholy-looking man, he had the appearance of one who has searched for the leak in life's gas-pipe with a lighted candle. P. G. Wodehouse
depression government unemployment
The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy. Milton Friedman
depression tears sometimes
With depression, you can go in and out of it and not really know whether it's still there or not. Sometimes I'd find myself bursting into tears for no reason. Keisha Buchanan
depression people reason
For some reason I am one of those people who act like they were born and raised during the Depression. Kirstie Alley
depression space perspective
I couldn’t be with people and I didn’t want to be alone. Suddenly my perspective whooshed and I was far out in space, watching the world. I could see millions and millions of people, all slotted into their lives; then I could see me—I’d lost my place in the universe. It had closed up and there was nowhere for me to be. I was more lost than I had known it was possible for any human being to be. Marian Keyes
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So I think we're kind of an alternate choice for people who have had it with sex and violence. Dick Van Dyke
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Sex is not some sort of pristine, reverent ritual. You want reverent and pristine, go to church. Cynthia Heimel
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Any violation of a woman's body can become sex for men; this is the essential truth of pornography. Andrea Dworkin
sex men body
The man takes a body that is not his, claims it, sows his so-called seed, reaps a harvest - he colonizes a female body, robs it of its natural resources, controls it.
sex names perception
When you have proved that God is merely a name for the sex instinct, it appears to me not far to the perception that the sex instinct is God. Aleister Crowley
sex crazy airplane
Maybe it's sex appeal, but there's something about an airplane that drives investors crazy. Alfred Kahn
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The very general occurrence of the homosexual in ancient Greece, and its wide occurrence today in some cultures in which such activity is not taboo suggests that the capacity of an individual to respond erotically to any sort of stimulus, whether it is provided by another person of the same or opposite sex, is basic in the species. Alfred Kinsey
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The history of medicine proves that in so far as man seeks to know himself and face his whole nature, he has become free from bewildered fear, despondent shame, or arrant hypocrisy. As long as sex is dealt with in the current confusion of ignorance and sophistication, denial and indulgence, suppression and stimulation, punishment and exploitation, secrecy and display, it will be associated with a duplicity and indecency that lead neither to intellectual honesty nor human dignity.
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It is ordinarily said that criminal law is designed to protect property and to protect persons, and if society's only interest in controlling sex behavior were to protect persons, then the criminal codes concerned with assault and battery should provide adequate protection. The fact that there is a body of sex laws which is apart from the laws protecting persons is evidence of their distinct function, namely that of protecting custom.
painting people stop
People stop and say 'Why are you painting on a building?'
pain joy upset
Having someone to share not only the joy of life, but the pain of life... that's been sort of the biggest lesson of marriage. I can never get angry or upset with my partner because they're just a part of me. Ashton Kutcher
pain white band
I used to do this big rant at the end of some gigs with Ben Folds Five. The band broke into this big heavy metal thing and I started as a joke to scream in a heavy metal falsetto. I found myself saying things like: Feel my pain, I am white, feel my pain. Ben Folds
pain want knows
Pain is all I know." He murmured. "Peace is all I want Dean Koontz
paint throw
Throw some paint on that. You won't see a thing. Heath Bell
pain growing-up writing
At last I understood that the way over, or through this dilemma, the unease at writing about 'petty personal problems' was to recognize that nothing is personal, in the sense that it is uniquely one's own. Writing about oneself, one is writing about others, since your problems, pains, pleasures, emotions—and your extraordinary and remarkable ideas—can't be yours alone. [...] Growing up is after all only the understanding that one's unique and incredible experience is what everyone shares. Doris Lessing
pain revenge doors
She had opened a door... and now she was walking with demons. And at the end of her travels, she would have her revenge... Pain had made a sadist of her. Clive Barker
pain house four
So here are some foolproof recipes for those of you who understand the true function of food. Bean Treat: Gingerly pour four fluid oz of beans or something into a jug. Cry. Eat the beans from the jug and pour the rest from the can down your throat. N.B. These taste better if they belong to somebody else in your house. Pain au Dunk: Fists of bread, rent from the loaf and dunked into anything runnier than bread. Should eat at least six of these because…you should. Don’t toast the bread. Toast is cookery. Dylan Moran
pain laughing people
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