“Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed in them.” “Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed in them.”

“Humility like darkness reveals the heavenly lights.”

“The church is a sort of hospital for men's souls and as full of quackery as the hospital for their bodies.”

“Thus men will lie on their backs, talking about the fall of man, and never make an effort to get up.”

“You must not blame me if I do talk to the clouds.”

“He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate.”

“I believe that there is a subtle magnetism in Nature, which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct us aright.”

“let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature.”

“Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends.”

“Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life?”

“Be not simply good; be good for something.”

“Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.”

“Nothing brings people together more than mutual hatred.”

“It is sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.”

“I am ready for whatever's coming. I expect nothing but to be let down or turned away. I am alone. Goddamn. The shit hurts sometimes, but I realize what I am, what I have become.”

“I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own. I like mine.”

“Don't do anything by half. If you love someone, love them with all your soul. When you go to work, work your ass off. When you hate someone, hate them until it hurts.”

“Half of life is fucking up, the other half is dealing with it.”

“Girls aren't beautiful, they're pretty. Beautiful is too heavy a word to assign to a girl. Women are beautiful because their faces show that they know they have lost something and picked up something else.”

“Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.”

“Life will not break your heart. It'll crush it.”

“Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on.”

“I'll never forget how the depression and loneliness felt good and bad at the same time. Still does.” “I'll never forget how the depression and loneliness felt good and bad at the same time. Still does.”

“Reading is to the mind what exerise is to the body.”