ZizzFeed Quotes

"If there is such a thing as depression and despair, I experienced it during the months leading-up to and following the divorce. Insomnia, constant and uncontrollable thoughts and a deep sense of loss were among the conditions of my life. Was I depressed? Yes, I was very much so and, what’s worse, was determined to do nothing immediately for it."

H. Kirk Rainer

"It was only later, replaying the scene in her mind again and again, that she began to believe it was the expression of a man who was methodically unplugging himself from reality, one cord at a time. The face of a man who was heading out of the blue and into the black."

Anonymous

Inspiration

He straightened, assuming an odd attitude of dignity – as though it were another mask.

Frank Herbert

"Writers really don't retire, you know. They have to be taken out and shot."

James Salter

Inspiration

Like flowers blooming through cement,we, too, can grow beyond our cracks.

Gina Greenlee

Inspiration

One of those out-of-the-ordinary days that made sense of the slew of ordinary days. New York had a way of doing that. Every now and then the city shook its soul out. It assailed you with an image, or a day, or a crime, or a terror, or a beauty so difficult to wrap your mind around that you had to shake your head in disbelief.

Colum McCann

"It's only a two-day hike. But it lasts a lifetime."

National Geographic Society

Inspiration

All day we've witnessed each other's crimes. You killed no one today? But how many did you leave to die?

Ian McEwan

"There are neither raptures, nor ecstasies, nor transports of bliss in the pleasures of the table; but they make up in duration what they lose in intensity, and are distinguished above all by the merit of inclining us towards all the other pleasures of life, or at least of consoling us for the loss of them."

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Inspiration

We should not be careless toward the fulfillment of our calling.

Author

Inspiration

You can go slow. Allow your dreams and goals to change, but live an intentional life.

Kumail Nanjiani

"What draws me in is that a trip is a leap in the dark. It's like a metaphor for life. You set off from home, and in the classic travel book, you go to an unknown place. You discover a different world, and you discover yourself."

Paul Theroux

"Let him into the mire and muck of our world. For only if we let him in can he pull us out."

Max Lucado

"Humor is an attitude. It's a way of looking at life and of telling others how you feel about what's happening around you."

Gene Perret

"The only way to live life is to live in the present. You can't put things off thinking you'll have time later. There may not be a later. - Katarina Kozlov."

Dannika Dark

Inspiration

The distance to the corner shops of childhood becomes unfathomable, immeasurable; the candy bars have changed. And change has changed.

Ilse Aichinger

Inspiration

Men let women down. Over and over again. I'ts what they're programmed to do.

Liz Jensen

Inspiration

I'm as much a victim of the romantic myth of 'getting away' as anyone else. My head tells me it's myth, but I don't want to believe it is.

Sydney Pollack

"The first thing I tried to do in the months after losing my mother was to write a poem. I found myself turning to poetry in the way so many people do - to make sense of losses. And I wrote pretty bad poems about it. But it did feel that the poem was the only place that could hold this grief."

Natasha Trethewey

"Human life never ends..It just transforms to eternity!And eternity is worth strive for."

Salsabeel

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