"The only thing that makes the present palatable is the fact that the past was, at times, torture."

Reality, Present, Pain, Past

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"What you persistently think becomes your reality."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Reality, Thoughts, Mindset, Truth

"Not for the first time I find our lives are a shadow, and I am not afraid to say that people who think they have everything figured out and are masters of logic - they are responsible for the greatest folly. No human being is happy. Strike it rich and you are luckier than your neighbor - but happy, never."

Euripides, Greek Poet

Reality, Logic, Happiness, Life, Reflection

"The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party when the masks are dropped."

Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher

Reality, Life, End, Party, Truth

"It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"A thing can be fine on paper but utterly crummy in the field."

Robert A. Heinlein, American Writer

Reality, Theory, Practice, Failure

"Never expect people to understand, respect or love you , they are just a bunch of dirty flesh and fake skins. Staring to eat you when you are fat enough."

M.F. Moonzajer, Afghan Author

Reality, Expectation, Understanding, Love

"The world hates the truth and all that share it, and so if you share truth eventually you will be hated by the world if you are not ready."

Auliq Ice, Ugandan Economist

Reality, Truth, Hate, World

"You shoulda known the entirety of the trap, a**hole,love means eventual painvictory means eventual defeatgrace means eventual slovenliness,there's no wayout...you see, youunderstand?"

Charles Bukowski, American Author

Reality, Pain, Victory, Grace, Love

"It is hope--with regard to our careers, our love lives, our children, our politicians, and our planet--that is primarily to blame for angering and embittering us. The incompatibility between the grandeur of our aspirations and the mean reality of our condition generates the violent disappointments which rack our days and etch themselves in lines of acrimony across our faces."

Alain de Botton, English Writer

Reality, Hope, Disappointment, Emotion

"Do you really believe that the moon isn't there when nobody looks?"

Albert Einstein, German Scientist

Reality, Perception, Existence, Truth

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"If Marilyn Monroe was alive right now, what would she be doing?'Clawing at the roof of her coffin."

Mortality

"By the time you're thirty, your worst enemy is yourself."

Self

"You gain power by pretending to be weak."

Power

"You have to give up! you have to give up!You have to realize that someday you will die,Until you know that, you are useless!"

Acceptance

"And the seventh rule is if this is your first night at fight club, you have to fight."

Rules

"If you knew that your life was merely a phase or short, short segment of your entire existence, how would you live? Knowing nothing 'real' was at risk, what would you do? You'd live a gigantic, bold, fun, dazzling life. You know you would. That's what the ghosts want us to do - all the exciting things they no longer can."

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"I used to work in a funeral home to feel good about myself, just the fact that I was breathing."

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"What you persistently think becomes your reality."

"The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party when the masks are dropped."

"It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality."

"A thing can be fine on paper but utterly crummy in the field."

"Never expect people to understand, respect or love you , they are just a bunch of dirty flesh and fake skins. Staring to eat you when you are fat enough."

"The world hates the truth and all that share it, and so if you share truth eventually you will be hated by the world if you are not ready."

"You shoulda known the entirety of the trap, a**hole,love means eventual painvictory means eventual defeatgrace means eventual slovenliness,there's no wayout...you see, youunderstand?"

"Do you really believe that the moon isn't there when nobody looks?"

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"There's still a thousand places I haven't gone to die."

"Because supposedly those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it."

"We live and we die and anything else is just a delusion."

"If Marilyn Monroe was alive right now, what would she be doing?'Clawing at the roof of her coffin."

"By the time you're thirty, your worst enemy is yourself."

"You gain power by pretending to be weak."

"You have to give up! you have to give up!You have to realize that someday you will die,Until you know that, you are useless!"

"And the seventh rule is if this is your first night at fight club, you have to fight."

"I used to work in a funeral home to feel good about myself, just the fact that I was breathing."