#is

Do you know they found land mines in woman's souls. ↗

— Andrea Gibson

#feminism #poetry #rape-culture #feminism

This story ["The Depressed Person"] was the most painful thing I ever wrote. It's about narcissism, which is a part of depression. The character has traits of myself. I really lost friends while writing on that story, I became ugly and unhappy and just yelled at people. The cruel thing with depression is that it's such a self-centered illness - Dostoevsky shows that pretty good in his "Notes from Underground". The depression is painful, you're sapped/consumed by yourself; the worse the depression, the more you just think about yourself and the stranger and repellent you appear to others. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#die-zeit-interview #narcissism #depression

In Paris there are two dens, one for thieves, the other for murderers. The den of thieves is the Stock Exchange; the den of murderers is the Courthouse. ↗

— Petrus Borel

#injustice #justice #poverty #rich #wealth

If this is the best of possible worlds, what then are the others? ↗

— Voltaire

#optimism #satire #satire

وأنت وإن أفردت في دار وحشة فأنا بدار الأنس في وحشة الفرد ↗

— ابن الرومي

#misery #mourning #poetry #sadness #mourning

I am an optimist. Anyone interested in the future has to be otherwise he would simply shoot himself. ↗

— Arthur C. Clarke

#optimism #optimism

If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can. ↗

— William Faulkner

#happiness #optimism #suffering #optimism

I'm no optimist", she said as she opened the cabinet door. " I'm just a realist who smiles too much. ↗

— Tiffany Reisz

#optimism

Always something new, always something I didn't expect, and sometimes it isn't horrible. ↗

— Robert Jordan

#optimism

He hesitated, remembering something Finnikin had said to him on their journey. That somehow, even in the worst of times, the tiniest fragments of good survive. It was the grip in which one held those fragments that counted. ↗

— Melina Marchetta

#hope #optimism #optimism