“When someone doesn’t love you, it makes you think, ‘why?’… Your brain goes to all these different places”
“It’s painful to love somebody who doesn’t love you back.”
“You’re told that you’re in your head too much, a phrase that’s often deployed against the quiet and cerebral. Or maybe there’s another word for such people: thinkers.”
— Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking (via books-n-quotes)
“There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.”
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“There’s no need to talk about it, because the truth of what one says lies in what one does.”
— Bernhard Schlink, The Reader (via books-n-quotes)
“I have such a desire to sleep and am so much behind my sleep. A good night, one good night and all this nonsense will be swept away.”
— Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea (via books-n-quotes)
It is possible, that in a galaxy far away, aliens are already celebrating having destroyed our planet with a long-distance laser-gun
We all are too young to carry this sadness in our heads
“When life sucks, throw yourself into art.”
— Monica Drake, Clown Girl (via books-n-quotes)