I know that these mental disturbances of mine are not dangerous and give no promise of a storm; to express what I complain of in apt metaphor, I am distressed, not by a tempest, but by sea-sickness.

Man cannot become attached to higher aims and submit to a rule if he sees nothing above him to which he belongs. To free — Émile Durkheim, On Suicide: A Study in Sociology

When there is no other aim but to outstrip constantly the point arrived at, how painful to be thrown back!...Since imagi — Émile Durkheim

Depression presents itself as a realism regarding the rottenness of the world in general and the rottenness of your life — Jonathan Franzen, How to Be Alone

$How then does light return to the world after the eclipse of the sun? Miraculously. Frailly. In thin stripes. It hangs like a glass cage. It is a hoop to be fractured by a tiny jar. There is a spark t — Virginia Woolf, The Waves$

Punker, what's compassion for a world this far gone? The streets don't give a fuck. It's a bummer, your care slides down — Noah Wareness

I look and I look...I must have come to the wrong planet.It's so strange here. — Sigbjørn Obstfelder

In a state of anomie, the absence of justice becomes the panacea for justice — Dauglas Dauglas, Roses in the Rainbow

You're living your days at the moment how a sheep grazes, meandering, not engaged with anything much. — Nikki Gemmell, The Bride Stripped Bare

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