#lit

You never know what lurks just beneath the surface of my fragile sanity. ↗

— Ashly Lorenzana

#lurker #mind #personality #psychological #sanity

Solitude was my only consolation - deep, dark, deathlike solitude. ↗

— Mary Shelley

#mood #solitude #solitude

I have an immense appetite for solitude, like an infant for sleep, and if I don't get enough for this year, I shall cry all the next. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#solitude

You see, the point is that the strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone. ↗

— Henrik Ibsen

#solitude

The capitalist empires, with their affirmations of sacrifice for the free world, of defence of private enterprise, of safeguarding order from subversion and chaos, are in fact defending their political prestige and the economic interests arising from it; they are indeed at the service of economic power and the international trusts. The socialist empires for their part are hard and intransigent, they do not allow pluralism, they impose dialectical materialism, demand blind obedience to the party, set up a regime of total and permanent insecurity and fear, just like the fascist dictatorships of the extreme right. ↗

— Hélder Câmara

#communism #politics #communism

Despotic governments can stand 'moral force' till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force. ↗

— George Orwell

#dictatorship #interventionism #pacifism #totalitarianism #war

I wonder if rooms in an insane asylum have Do Not Disturb signs for the doors. I should hope not, because knock or no knock, every occupant in those rooms is already disturbed.
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— Jarod Kintz

#disturbed #door #doors #hope #hospitality

My point is, there are a lot of people in the world. No one ever sees everything the same way you do; it just doesn't happen. So when you find one person who gets a couple of things, especially if they're important ones... you might as well hold on to them. You know? ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#couples

I was sixteen and my mother was about to throw me out of the house forever, for breaking a very big rule, even bigger than the forbidden books. The rule was not just No Sex, but definitely No Sex With Your Own Sex. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#books #books-express #sex #sexuality #winterson

I turned to books for comfort. (Former First Lady, Laura Bush) ↗

— Laura Bush

#political #politically-correct #telling #biography