"A little smoke lost in the air, that was the life of a man."

Sensitivity, Life, Man, Loss, Fleeting

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"A little smoke lost in the air, that was the life of a man."

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"I didn't want my picture taken because I was going to cry. I didn't know why I was going to cry, but I knew that if anybody spoke to me or looked at me too closely the tears would fly out of my eyes and the sobs would fly out of my throat and I'd cry for a week. I could feel the tears brimming and sloshing in me like water in a glass that is unsteady and too full."

Sylvia Plath, American Poet

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"I embrace my sensitivity and let it enhance my joy every day."

Amy Leigh Mercree, American Author

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"I enabled your tendency to be vulnerable and weak, and your habits of crying when 6,000 others were present for the music."

Darnell Lamont Walker, American Writer

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"Much more likely you'll hurt me. Still what does it matter? If I've got to suffer, it may as well be at your hands, your pretty hands."

Jean-Paul Sartre, French Philosopher

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"I fear I have praised you too much too soon. Will I lose you in your shame of believing that you can never be what I think you are?"

Kate McGahan, American Author

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"But once in a while . . . I don't know. I feel so close, Rose. So close to the edge. Like if I allow myself one small misstep, I'll plunge away and never come back. It's like I'll lose myself."

Richelle Mead, American Author

Sensitivity, Fear, Emotion, Mental Health

"I need more than anything right now what is, of course, most impossible, someone to love me, to be with me at night when I wake up in shuddering horror and fear of the cement tunnels leading down to the shock room, to comfort me with an assurance that no psychiatrist can quite manage to convey."

Sylvia Plath, American Poet

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"You disappoint me -I am the worst liar in the world - I can't hide my pain or my need so I make a bouquet of my sorrows and give them to you ..."

John Geddes, Canadian Author

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"And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter- they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long."

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"What is it?Nothing. I had a bad dream.What did you dream about?Nothing.Are you okay?No.He put his arms around him and held him. It's okay, he said.I was crying. But you didnt wake up.I'm sorry. I was just so tired.I meant in the dream."

Cormac McCarthy, American Writer

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