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Robin Williams photo

“People dont fake depression. They fake being okay.”

Robin Williams (1951–2014) American actor and stand-up comedian

“The only way to stay sane is to go a little crazy.”

Source: Girl, Interrupted

Nadine Gordimer photo

“Television and newspapers show people's lives at a certain point. But novels tell you what happened after the riot, what happened when everybody went home.”

Nadine Gordimer (1923–2014) South african Nobel-winning writer

Yonder Mark (ed.), The Quotable Gordimer, 2014.

“Everybody wants to know what happens when you die.
I'm still trying to figure out what happens when you live.”

Source: https://www.facebook.com/ArtbyKalen/photos/a.1107868999258107/5304091012969197/

Marcus Annaeus Seneca photo

“Love is awful. It's awful. It's painful. It's frightening. … Love isn't something that weak people do.”

movie Fleebag

Love is awful. It's awful. It's painful. It's frightening. It makes you doubt yourself, judge yourself, distance yourself from the other people in your life. It makes you selfish. It makes you creepy, makes you obsessed with your hair, makes you cruel, makes you say and do things you never thought you would do. It's all any of us want, and it's hell when we get there. So no wonder it's something we don't want to own. I was taught if we're born with love then life is about choosing the right place to put it. People talk about that a lot, feeling right, when it feels right it's easy. But I'm not sure that's true. It takes strength to know what's right. And love isn't something that weak people do. Being a romantic takes a hell of a lot of hope. I think that what they mean is, when you find somebody that you love, it feels like hope.

Sören Kierkegaard photo
Sören Kierkegaard photo

“It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite.”

Sören Kierkegaard (1813–1855) Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism

1841
1840s, The Journals of Søren Kierkegaard, 1840s

Franz Kafka photo

“When women are angry at men, they call them heartless. When men are angry at women, they call them crazy.”

Susanna Kaysen (1948) American writer

Susan Cheever, "A Designated Crazy," The New York Times Book Review, June 20, 1993. (Reviewing Kaysen's Girl, Interrupted.)
On Girl, Interrupted