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Mysteriously and in ways that are totally remote from natural experience, the gray drizzle of horror induced by depression takes on the quality of physical pain. ↗

— William Styron

#experience #gray #horror #induced #mysteriously

Just recently I worked with Van Morrison and I came to realize that money can't make a decent human being out of you. ↗

— Jim Sullivan

#came #decent #human #human being #i

Popular music has always had its really horrendous stuff. ↗

— Rickie Lee Jones

#had #horrendous #music #popular #popular music

I tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good feeling. ↗

— Frida Kahlo

#bastards #decent #drown #feeling #good

Now begins a torrent of words and a trickling of sense. ↗

— Theocritus

#now #sense #torrent #words

You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps. ↗

— George Konrad

#believe #courage #dangerous #maybe #number

I don't worry whether the period is contemporary or three hundred years ago. Human beings are all alike. ↗

— Genevieve Bujold

#alike #beings #contemporary #human #human beings

No one has the right to be sorry for himself for a misfortune that strikes everyone. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#himself #misfortune #right #sorry #strikes

Grace is available for each of us every day - our spiritual daily bread - but we've got to remember to ask for it with a grateful heart and not worry about whether there will be enough for tomorrow. ↗

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

#ask #available #bread #daily #daily bread

My parents wanted me to solace them for sorrows they denied having had. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#had #having #me #parents #solace