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It is tempting when looking at the life of anyone who has committed suicide to read into the decision to die a vastly complex web of reasons; and, of course, such complexity is warranted. No one illness or event causes suicide; and certainly no one knows all, or perhaps even most, of the motivations behind the killing of the self. But psychopathology is almost always there, and its deadliness is fierce. Love, success, and friendship are not always enough to counter the pain and destructiveness of severe mental illness ↗

— Kay Redfield Jamison

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How it's so easy for her to not feel anything at all, to be just completely gone, to not be around to see how fucked up she's made me. She got to disappear completely and I feel like I'm about to combust. ↗

— Nina LaCour

#love #regret #suicide #friendship

Perhaps he does not want to be friends with you until he knows what you are like. With owls, it is never easy-come-easy-go. ↗

— T.H. White

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Some friends gladly stay, some move away. Some come and go, but their affections grow. While some, I recall, are not friends at all. ↗

— Primadonna Angela

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Love, respect, friendship, do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something. ↗

— Anton Chekhov

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Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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For this moment, this one moment, we are together. I press you to me. Come, pain, feed on me. Bury your fangs in my flesh. Tear me asunder. I sob, I sob. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#friendship #pain #death

Why should I cumber myself with regrets that the receiver is not capacious? It never troubles the sun that some of his rays fall wide and vain into ungrateful space, and only a small part on the reflecting planet. Let your greatness educate the crude and cold companion. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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A hunted man sometimes wearies of distrust and longs for friendship. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#friendship #loneliness #friendship

Hard-covered books break up friendships. You loan a hard covered book to a friend and when he doesn’t return it you get mad at him. It makes you mean and petty. But twenty-five cent books are different. ↗

— John Steinbeck

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