![[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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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
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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 work racism
When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression. Jesse Jackson
depression talking insane
I have gone insane. I won't be talking with you for a while. Jennifer Lynch
depression different world
We had a booming stock market in 1929 and then went into the world's greatest depression. We have a booming stock market in 1999. Will the bubble somehow burst, and then we enter depression? Well, some things are not different. Jeffrey Sachs
depression suicide want
I don't want to die. But I want to be dead. Jean Ingelow
depression sadness overwhelmed
One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness. Jackie Kennedy
depression history distinction
I'm the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him. Herbert Hoover
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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
sex church want
Sex is not some sort of pristine, reverent ritual. You want reverent and pristine, go to church. Cynthia Heimel
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We're all animals, that we all respond to the same stimuli. If you want to motivate somebody not to have premarital sex, or motivate black bears not to go diving into dumpsters, first you have to think about why they do it. Telling them to stop isn't going to help. There has to be some incentive for them to alter their behavior. Adam Carolla
sex men thinking
I don't like those men who claim that their wife is their best friend. . . . I think spouses should tolerate each other and occasionally have sex.
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Lying in bed, you know, you don't seem so tall. Ani Difranco
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sex sleep night
At night when you're asleep, self-hatred's going to creep in. And you can blame it on the devil, the one who's bed you sleep in.
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Every generation thinks that they invented sex. Andy Grove
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Believe me, blond hair can take you really far, especially with the older men. It can really distract from the face. I am convinced I could have had sex with both Tony Bennett and John McCain if we weren't each happily married at the time we all met. Amy Poehler
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People stop and say 'Why are you painting on a building?' Bob Murray
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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
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Pain is all I know." He murmured. "Peace is all I want Dean Koontz
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Throw some paint on that. You won't see a thing. Heath Bell
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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
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A hero is also someone who, in their day to day interactions with the world, despite all the pain, uncertainty and doubt that can plague us, is resiliently and unashamedly themselves. If you can wake up every day and be emotionally open and honest regardless of what you get back from the world then you can be the hero of your own story. Each and every person who can say that despite life’s various buffetings that they are proud to be the person they are is a hero. Daniel Radcliffe
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