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Remember how unimportant you are because that knowledge will gain you more respect than someone who thinks the world revolves around them.

Remember, you are as dispensable as the most indispensable king of kings, the mighty lord of silly worldly men.

Saat memutuskan buat jatuh cinta, lo juga membuka kemungkinan cinta kelak akan berbalik nyakitin lo. - Good Fight

Sad isn't just a feeling when you feel it all the time. It becomes a part of you.

saying goodbye isnt hard, but saying it to something you care about is whats hard, because you dont want to forget the emmotional pain and happiness they caused in you're life.

Sebelum benar-benar patah hati, kau tak akan pernah menyadari seperti apa kau ingin dicintai.

Selingkuh: meninggalkan yang tak sempurna untuk yang lebih tak sempurna.

She sighs and the small release of breath bothers me. This girl needs to be off doing things that make her happy. Not standing here with me, confused and torn. It’s just further proof that I’m no good to be around. I’m turning one of the happiest people I know into something she was never meant to be. I’m turning her into me.

She found it easier to forgive than Ove did. Forgive God and the universe and everything. Ove got angry instead. Maybe because he felt someone had to be angry on her behalf, when everything that was evil seemed to assail the only person he'd ever met who didn't deserve it.

Sometimes two people will regard each other over a gulf too wide to ever be bridged, and know immediately what could have happened, and that it never will.

Singapore and China did not have diplomatic relations at that time [1976]. Communism is banned in Singapore, and nobody could visit China without official approval. The Singapore government had prohibited travel there for fear that Singaporeans would be subverted and converted to the communist cause. . .The travel ban was lifted after Lee Kuan Yew's visit. He realised that nobody could experience life there and be seduced by their system. Indeed, they would better appreciate what Singapore offered.

So if this were a normal book about a girl with leukemia, I would probably talk a shitload about all the meaningful things Rachel had to say as she got sicker and sicker, and also probably we would fall in love and have some incredibly fulfilling romantic thing and she would die in my arms. But I don't feel like lying to you. She didn't have meaningful things to say, and we definitely didn't fall in love. She seemed less pissed with me after my stupid outburst, but she basically just went from irritable to quiet.

Someday, even my existence would be felt.

Sommige mensen blijven altijd mooi, ook als ze weglopen, hoe pijnlijk dat ook is

(showing 1-2 of 2) sort by ↑ top up up 1 position down down ↓ bottom Remove this quote from your collectionSalvador Dalí “I don't do drugs. I am drugs.” ― Salvador Dalí tags: drugs 918 likes ↑ top up up 2 position down down ↓ bottom Remove this quote from your collection “But it's funny how even after all these years you find yourself wondering just how well you know anyone. Hell, we've all been tight since we we're kids - been through a lot together - but we still have secrets, don't we? All of us. None of us are ever exactly, precisely what we claim to be, are we? We're one way with some people, another way with other people, maybe another way still when we're all alone. That's what it boils down to fellas. At night, when you're lying there in bed looking at the ceiling, remembering the day, thinking back through things you did and what lies ahead, when it's just you and whatever god you pray to in the dark ...that's when all the masks are peeled away and it's just you. Just you..., and whoever...or whatever you are.

Some ghost of myself still lived back in the days when we'd shared a bed and talked of the future. But that love we'd had and those selves we'd been were gone, placed in a box like old photographs and letters you'd never read again.

Sometimes, people meant it when they smiled. Other times, they smiled because they wanted to mean it.

Somewhere deep within you also know that you love me

So while I was busy saving you from Hell, you were pushing me further to it; the poison murdering me well.

That's really sad," Beth said softly, "To have no one left.

Stop thinking. I've stopped some 15 years ago. Otherwise, if you will be thinking you won't want to live. Everyone who thinks is unhappy.

...Tal vez sea esa la vida de nosotros todos. ¡Ese eludir o perder nuestra verdadera vida encubriéndola tras una infinidad de pequeñeces con aspecto de cosas vitales!

Terkadang,yang tak bisa kamu lupakan adalah seseorang yang tak pernah bisa kamu miliki.

...that I don't want to feel better in the morning, how that way of life is wearing me out, that what I really want is to not feel this way in the first place.

The best way to teach a child abuser to stop abusing is not counseling. It is not therapy. It is a mouth full of broken teeth and arms that, when the bones heal, cannot produce the force necessary to hit or burn another child.

The past will forever be a part of my present as well as my future.

The government of my country snubs honest simplicity but fondles artistic villainy, and I think I might have developed into a very capable pickpocket if I had remained in the public service a year or two.

The last thought in the evening is often the first one in the morning.

The orb shone bright, but darkness had come to Eden and Carys didn’t know is there was any light that could chase this kind of darkness away.

The poet Billy Collins once laughingly observed that all babies are born with a knowledge of poetry, because the lub-dub of the mother's heart is in iambic meter. Then, Collins said, life slowly starts to choke the poetry out of us. It may be true with music, too.

The NRA kills more Americans than Muslim terrorists do.

The one thing that we need to escape is our minds, but our minds are the one thing that we cannot escape from.

The sad part is that you love her.... and she didn't love you back.

There’s nothing worse than not being wanted

The sad part is you love her..... and she didn't love you back.

They say never ride with the ones you didn’t walk with, real friends show you real love not only talk it. I made the team but figured out the game wasn’t important when I found my homies switching sides the nights we wasn’t scoring.

The World is not a wish granting factory"- The Fault In Our Stars

This here is your inheritance, says the senior partner. Yes, he says, Ludwig, I know, and stows the plan for the bathing house (5.5m long, 3.8m wide, outer wall construction: wood, roof construction: thatch), stows both the plan and the mosquito in his briefcase. On a German shelf, this mosquito, pressed flat between large quantities of paper, will outlast time and times, and one day it might even be petrified, who knows.

We don't act like that because we are in good humor; we are in a good humor because otherwise we should go to pieces.

We're lonely down here," he said. "It's true. But we're not alone.

This generation seems to see children as a financial burden and responsibility to be avoided.

We had no choice. We ran into darkness of the early morning leaving everything behind.

What distresses me is to see that human genius has limitations, and human stupidity has none.

When a human in happy time, he/she doesn’t understand the reality! He/she doesn’t realize it until he/she is touched by sadness, pain, poverty, refusal, betrayal, hate, abuse and so many things. Until then he/she doesn’t know what the reality is. Cause the reality is very harsh and very hard to accept.

You are a military man and should know better. If there is one science into which man has probed continuously and successfully, it is that of military technology. No potential weapon would remain unrealized for ten thousand years.

You ever feel like you're sending out a light but no one sees it?

Your friends drag you down, Gordie. Don't you know that? [...] Your friends do. They're like drowning guys that are holding onto your legs. You can't save them. You can only drown with them.

Your heart is pure, but my every line is poor. Every second I write to you, I suddenly begin to hear the creaking floor boards. As the wind chimes, time goes by. Waiting, for that one moment to arrive. As I stand gaurd, I'll know it will get hard. But in the end, it will work out just like a deck of playing cards.

You saved him just to let him go.” “Yes.” “You knew all along what this meant, yet you did it anyway. You risked your life for him, knowing that it couldn’t work.” “Yes.” Niko laughs sardonically. I look over to find him leaning over, his head in his hands. “What kind of love is that? How could something that’s supposed to bring you joy and triumph be so painful?” “It’s not love. It’s insanity.” He lifts his face from his palms, and meets my eyes. I see that the pain of love he spoke about wasn’t for me or Dorian, it was for him. That was his hurt, his anguish. I’m not the only one who’s insane. “Why do we let them do this to us?” he asks, his voice a broken whisper. “Do what?” “Leave us.” An iridescent speck rolls down his cheek, almost masked by the comfort of the shadows. “Because we’re stupid. And because we’d rather have a moment of happiness than a lifetime of loneliness.” Niko makes a noise in his throat, as if my words strangle him. I turn away, allowing him to suffer in private. “We love the unlovable,” he murmurs. “We save the unsaveable.” “It’s a sickness.” “It’s masochism.” I nod, but I don’t say a word. We’ve already said it all.

You too, Caesar?