„It feels so exhausting to be so bad at something I loved so much.“

— Chuck Klosterman, book Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story

Source: Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story

Last update June 3, 2021.

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Author, Columnist 1972

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„I can be hurt, you know. I can get as exhausted as anybody else. I can feel so bad I want to cry, too.“

— Haruki Murakami, book Norwegian Wood

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„I'm so exhausted and yet I feel like I'll never sleep again.“

— Maya Banks Author 1964

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„That something so small could be so beautiful. Worth so much. Only the strongest people can turn away from feelings like that.“

— Anthony Doerr, book All the Light We Cannot See

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„In a day, sometimes I feel so much love for the world, I think my heart is bursting. Sometimes, I feel so scared, I want to shrink myself even further.“

— Yoko Ono Japanese artist, author, and peace activist 1933

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Context: In a day, sometimes I feel so much love for the world, I think my heart is bursting. Sometimes, I feel so scared, I want to shrink myself even further. I think that’s what happened to us gods and goddesses. Like the dinosaurs, we realized that it’s too dangerous to be so large. So we kept shrinking ourselves to what we are now. We might get even smaller. I see the sign in the engineers making smaller gadgets, smaller and smaller. Pretty soon, our fingers will be too large to operate them. So what are we doing? I trust in the human wisdom. We are incredibly intelligent beings. So we might know something without thinking that we know…. Well, even my best friend didn’t know until now that I was thinking of crazy things like this.

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„So much of love is chance. There's something scary and wonderful about that.“

— Jenny Han, book P.S. I Still Love You

Source: P.S. I Still Love You

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„The love I feel for you
Is so deep and runs so true
That I even love the longing
That I feel because of you.“

— Florbela Espanca Portuguese poet 1894 - 1930

Tenho por ti uma paixão
Tão forte tão acrisolada,
Que até adoro a saudade
Quando por ti é causada
Quoted in Citações e pensamentos de Florbela Espanca (2011), p. 192
Translation by John D. Godinho

Love, Feeling

„There is no better feeling than the feeling that I have done something right. That feeling comes so rarely and is so fleeting that I can never really enjoy it. So in a way, it's not a good feeling at all.“

— John S. Hall Poet, author, singer, lawyer 1960

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„Sometimes I get too exhausted
to even feel bad“

— Charles Bukowski American writer 1920 - 1994

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„I feel awed by the mystery of being both so finite and yet so infinite, so much and so little, so conscious and yet, so coincidental.“

— Warren Farrell author, spokesperson, expert witness, political candidate 1943

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Feeling

„There's good in all of us and I think I simply love people too much, so much that it makes me feel too sad.“

— Kurt Cobain American musician and artist 1967 - 1994

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„The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere. That is why so much of social life is exhausting; one is wearing a mask. I have shed my mask.“

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh, book Gift from the Sea

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Life

„I feel as if empire is something that is either taken for granted in space opera—uninterrogated, simply present as a fact of worldbuilding—or it is rendered so evil as to be incomprehensibly bad…“

— Arkady Martine Science fiction author 1985

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„Sometimes if you go to see a very, very, happy movie, a Hollywood movie, you can walk out of the movie and feel very depressed because it's so false. And other times you see a very depressing movie and it makes you feel good, happy because you've seen something real. You've seen something that talks to you and says that your bad feelings are legitimate. And then you can go further with that and say, "Well, this bad feeling is good, and this good feeling is bad, but is it good to feel bad and is it bad to feel good?" I'm concerned with feelings. And sometimes when I feel good, I'll write something very negative because I have the strength to do it. But when I really, really feel very bad, what I want to do is make myself feel better, so I'll write something happier.“

— John S. Hall Poet, author, singer, lawyer 1960

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