In my view, suicide is not really a wish for life to end.' What is it then?' It is the only way a powerless person can find to make everybody else look away from his shame. The wish is not to die, but to hide.
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Orson Scott Card
I know how soon youth would fade and bloom perish, if, in the cup of bliss offered, but one dreg of shame, or one flavour of remorse were detected; and I do not want sacrifice, sorrow, dissolution - such is not my taste. I wish...
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Anonymous
[She] had heard it said that there was only one emotion which, in recollection, was capable of resurrecting the full immediacy and power of the original–one emotion that time could never fade, and that would drag you back any number of years into the pure,...
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Laini Taylor
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
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Jonathan Swift
Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts.
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Charles Dickens
More Quotes By Anton Chekhov
You have lost your reason and taken the wrong path. You have taken lies for truth, and hideousness for beauty. You would marvel if, owing to strange events of some sorts, frogs and lizards suddenly grew on apple and orange trees instead of fruit, or...
The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.
Wisdom.... comes not from age, but from education and learning.
And I despise your books, I despise wisdom and the blessings of this world. It is all worthless, fleeting, illusory, and deceptive, like a mirage. You may be proud, wise, and fine, but death will wipe you off the face of the earth as though...
