"What a mysterious thing madness is. I have watched patients whose lips are forever sealed in a perpetual silence. They live, breathe, eat; the human form is there, but that something, which the body can live without, but which cannot exist without the body, was missing."

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Source : Nellie Bly (2015). “The Collected Works of Nellie Bly (Annotated)”, p.82, Golgotha Press

Nellie Bly

#Forever Quotes #Missing Quotes #Silence Quotes

“If I had a religious belief, I would want it to be as strong as my belief in the theater.”
“Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.”
“One of the greatest strains in life is the strain of waiting for God.”
“It's hard thinking about Iraq at night when I'm dancing with transvestites in the afternoon.”
“People know the difference between good and evil in their hearts-if they search them. Religions twist good and evil. Their differences are the kind that need to be taught because they aren't natural.”
“I think what women are doing to themselves is that they're seeing these different images of perfection - the perfect wife, the perfect mother, the perfect career person, the perfect movie star - and they're somehow thinking that they should be all of these things, and that's the problem.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“The only real person you need to know is you.”

Source : Song: Living, Album: Pretties For You, 1969
“â€Ž"Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy.”

Source : Thomas Merton (1976). “The Power and Meaning of Love”

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