#id

It was ironic, really - you want to die because you can't be bothered to go on living - but then you're expected to get all energetic and move furniture and stand on chairs and hoist ropes and do complicated knots and attach things to other things and kick stools from under you and mess around with hot baths and razor blades and extension cords and electrical appliances and weedkiller. Suicide was a complicated, demanding business, often involving visits to hardware shops. And if you've managed to drag yourself from the bed and go down the road to the garden center or the drug store, by then the worst is over. At that point you might as well just go to work. ↗

— Marian Keyes

#humor #life #suicide #work #business

Never stop just because you feel defeated. The journey to the other side is attainable only after great suffering. ↗

— Santosh Kalwar

#defeat #journey #life #other-side #stop

Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery. ↗

— Andy Warhol

#born #into #kidnapped #like #slavery

No matter what happens, you will never lose me, I am forever yours, Kitten, in this life or the next. ↗

— Jeaniene Frost

#life

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell. ↗

— Edward Abbey

#cell #growth #ideology #sake

Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can offer with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation, but of the adopted talent of another, you have only an extemporaneous, half possession. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#self-expression #uniqueness #life

I feel my life is so scattered right now. Like it's all these small pieces of paper and someone's turned on the fan. But talking to you makes me feel like the fan's been turned off for a little bit. Like things could actually make sense. You completely unscatter me, and I appreciate that so much. ↗

— David Levithan

#john-green #will-grayson-will-grayson #life

Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure way against bad ideas is better ideas. The source of better ideas is freedom. The surest path to wisdom is liberal education. ↗

— Alfred Whitney Griswold

#education #ideas #education

Problem is, the bathroom pass can't help you escape life. It's still there when you come out. Problems and crap don't go away hiding in the can. ↗

— Simone Elkeles

#high-school #life

I will ask no more of life than this: that I might love you through all my days, and that you may find both peace and joy in the constancy of my heart. ↗

— Robert Sexton

#love #life