life

"No single event can awaken within us a stranger whose existence we had never suspected. To live is to be slowly born."

"There are no conditions to which a person cannot grow accustomed, especially if he sees that everyone around him lives in the same way."

"I feel like a big faker because I've been putting my life back together, and nobody knows."

"Dancers are the athletes of God."

"Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it. - Amir"

"I will make up a crush, you hear me?! I will look at a guy and say, for two months at least, 'I think you're cute.' And then I can be psycho. I will go in my head and make a whole life with him, he don't even understand why I'm mad at him. I'm like... 'cause you came in late last night!' And he's like, 'I don't even know you.'"

"One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness."

"He stood at the window of the empty cafe and watched the activites in the square and he said that it was good that God kept the truths of life from the young as they were starting out or else they'd have no heart to start at all."

"Live or die, but don't poison everything."

"Nothing carries meaning. People carry meaning. We are the porters of importance."

"Anything that doesn't take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing."

"My life is but a firefly’s flicker, so I’d better use my brief moment to light up the darkness that covers her path."

"When people say they don’t understand my generation, I like to point out that it’s not “my” generation. I’m only co-owner with a 50% stake."

"They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person."

"That's the thing about depression: A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight. But depression is so insidious, and it compounds daily, that it's impossible to ever see the end."

"The world changes, we do not, therein lies the irony that kills us."

"The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all."

"I drank her essence, and it’s like she never existed and now I’m thirsty again. Let this be a lesson in love."

"Don't cry, I'm sorry to have deceived you so much, but that's how life is."

"That's not a bad word...hate and war are bad words, but fuck isn't."