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Related I'm not saying that I'm better than anyone... I'm just saying that I'm one-of-a-kind. C LIONG (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes... JEAN SASSON Like a deep sad note played beneath the ocean waving through the orb the memories of ... PAWAN MISHRA The mightiest power of death is not that it can make people die, but that it can make the people you... FREDRIK BACKMAN Closed eyes, heart not beating, but a living love. AVIS COREA You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part. HENRY JAMES I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib... C. JOYBELL C. Let your true love be your lifetime treasure and beyond. ANGELICA HOPES We die a day at a time BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA the deceased don’t want you to forget about them. They just want you to move past it; not to dwell... JUSTIN PYFROM Never give up on you. 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STEPHEN CHBOSKY I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE. STEPHAN CHBOSKY Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st... STHEPHEN CHBOSKY no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop... 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KRISTIN O'DONNELL TUBB He Is Not Dead I cannot say, and I will not say That he is dead. He is just away. JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY From the day after we lose someone, how we lost them doesn't matter. All that matters now is that th... CHAD PELLEY When he died, all things soft and beautiful and bright would be buried with him. MADELINE MILLER I’d give in to the grief but make sure I wasn’t loud enough to draw attention from those who thi... ADAM SILVERA It hurts when they're gone. And it doesn't matter if it's slow or fast, whether it's a long drawn-ou... WALTER MOSLEY But surely Uncle Akbar could not be dead as they were dead? There must be something indestructible �... M.M. KAYE You'll never find another like me because im the original. RACHEL W Dreams, just dreams, it's all illusion BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA I was very grateful to have heard it again. Because I guess we all forget sometimes. And I think eve... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I live nearby a graveyard, that's where I get all my inspiration for wisdom and life BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA I was a very sickly boy when I was young; nearly died when I was 7. I had a life-threatening attack ... JOHN LYDON Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi... MARIANA FULGER The issue isn't whether he loved you, it's how much. Too much. Love can be poison SARAH J. MAAS I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belong to you. SARAH J. MAAS He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain... SARAH J. MAAS Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold ... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Hodor," said Hodor. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You do what you love, what you need SARAH J. MAAS I turned. Rhysand leaned against the archway into the sitting room, arms crossed, wings nowhere... SARAH J. MAAS I grew up in a big Irish, Catholic family. My dad was a pretty rough guy. So one of my brothers left... GERRY COONEY The Dream of a Queer Fellow I write the words again and they appear doubly pregnant with meaning. It... JOHN MIDDLETON MURRY As far back as history records people thinking, thinking people
have been befuddled by the mysteries... LEWIS N. ROE Although it's great to appear to a feast, home is always sweet, though it may be lonely and cold lik... BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA I realized that day that blessings come in a variety of shapes, colors, and sizes. CRAIG GROESCHEL That boy had wanted to be Ser Arthur Dayne, but someplace along the way he had become the Smiling Kn... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I don't know if I have a favorite color. KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl. KATE MIDDLETON Because death is the only thing that could have ever kept him from you. ALLY CARTER We all want to become more than we are, we want to live forever, that is why we hate death and creat... BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA it's okay to feel things. And be who you are about them. STEPHEN CHOBOSKY All concepts of making a point is another failure of communication. DEYTH BANGER I just want silence... nothing less... nothing more. DEYTH BANGER Knowledge causes depression and a lot of pressure. DEYTH BANGER This is going to take a while. I'm a fantasy author. We have trouble with the concept of brevity. BRANDON SANDERSON Be yourself and people will like you. JEFF KINNEY The best person I know is Myself. JEFF KINNEY If you play football, then for every goal that you score, ask your self, what is the 'grudge of a li... APURVA GAGLANI I don’t want to start thinking again. Not like I have this last week. I can’t think again. Not e... STEPHEN CHBOSKY It's strange to describe reading a book as a really great experience, but that's kind of how it felt... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I’m caught between trying to live my life, and trying to run from it. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't want to be somebody's crush.if somebody likes me, i want them to like the real me, not what ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY لم يكن بمقدوري سوى الهروب إلى عالمي الخاص: إلى الحلم. أت... مليكة مستظرف Be grateful for every moment and every breath. TERESA COLLINS The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better. ROBERT F. KENNEDY The world slides, the world goes, and death makes equal the rich and the poor BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA I wish I’d paid better attention. I didn’t yet think of time as finite. I didn’t fully appreci... JESSICA MARIA TUCCELLI
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CALHOUN A power has risen up in the government greater than the people themselves, consisting of many and va... JOHN C. CALHOUN Let a durable and firm peace be established and this government be confined rigidly to the few great... JOHN C. CALHOUN The interval between the decay of the old and the formation and the establishment of the new, consti... JOHN C. CALHOUN I am impressed with the belief that our naval force ought not to cost more in proportion than the Br... JOHN C. CALHOUN In the unfixables of our lives we are invited to keep company with Jesus and take a risk that God's ... ADELE AHLBERG CALHOUN Learn from your mistakes and build on your successes. JOHN C. CALHOUN It is harder to preserve than to obtain liberty. JOHN C. CALHOUN It is a universal and fundamental political principle that the power to protect can safely be confid... JOHN C. CALHOUN It has been lately urged in a very respectable quarter that it is the mission of this country to spr... JOHN C. CALHOUN True consistency, that of the prudent and the wise, is to act in conformity with circumstances and n... JOHN C. CALHOUN Every increase of protective duties is necessarily followed, in the present condition of our country... JOHN C. CALHOUN He is blind indeed who does not see, in the signs of the times, a strong tendency to plunge the Unio... JOHN C. CALHOUN The strong should always permit the weak and aggrieved to talk, to bluster, and scold without taking... JOHN C. CALHOUN Once established with Great Britain, it would not be difficult, with moderation and prudence, to est... JOHN C. CALHOUN I am utterly opposed to all equivocation or obscure expressions in our public acts. We are bound to ... JOHN C. CALHOUN The two great agents of the physical world have become subject to the will of man and have been made... JOHN C. CALHOUN Be assured that, as certain as Congress transcends its assigned limits and usurps powers never confe... JOHN C. CALHOUN When we contend, let us contend for all our rights - the doubtful and the certain, the unimportant a... JOHN C. CALHOUN With such irresistible evidence before us of the great and rapid progress of abolitionism without th... JOHN C. CALHOUN We make a great mistake in supposing all people are capable of self-government. JOHN C. CALHOUN In its exterior relations - abroad - this government is the sole and exclusive representative of the... JOHN C. CALHOUN A compromise is but an act of Congress. It may be overruled at any time. It gives us no security. Bu... JOHN C. CALHOUN So long as the Oregon question is left open, Mexico will calculate the chances of a rupture between ... JOHN C. CALHOUN There is often, in the affairs of government, more efficiency and wisdom in non-action than in actio... JOHN C. CALHOUN The danger in our system is that the general government, which represents the interests of the whole... JOHN C. CALHOUN We are as good judges of our interest and safety, and the means of preserving them, as the non-slave... JOHN C. CALHOUN When you make your peace with authority, you become authority. JIM MORRISON Make measurable progress in reasonable time. JIM ROHN