"Call me a sinner, Mock me maliciously: I was your insomnia, I was your grief."

-- Anna Akhmatova

#Grief Quotes #Insomnia Quotes #Call Me Quotes

“In the lead-up to the launch of my new book I Was Here, Iâ€™ve seen a lot of discussion about depression and suicide and mental health and YA dealing with such intense matters. What I havenâ€™t seen discussed is kittens.”
“How much ... did the volume of disease in a nation account for its spirit? If so, the eradication of sickness, as far as it was possible, was a responsibility a democracy must assume for its people.”
“The thundering line of battle stands, And in the air Death moans and sings: But Day shall clasp him with strong hands, And Night shall fold him in soft wings.”

Source : Julian Grenfell, “Into Battle”
“And therein lies the whole of man's plight. Human time does not turn in a circle; it runs ahead in a straight line. That is why man cannot be happy: happiness is the longing for repetition.”
“What ever your doing right now, whatever your thinking, or worrying about. stop. take a huge breathe in, and just enjoy being alive.”

Source : Twitter post from Jan 17, 2014
“There's no more film; now everything's digital. I welcome this. It's fantastic for me to have a new chance.”
“As artists, we are eternally heartbroken.”
“The biggest defeat in every department of life is to forget, especially the things that have done you in, and to die without realizing how far people can go in the way of crumminess. When the grave lies open before us, letâ€™s not try to be witty, but on the other hand, letâ€™s not forget, but make it our business to record the worst of the human viciousness weâ€™ve seen without changing one word. When thatâ€™s done, we can curl up our toes and sink into the pit. Thatâ€™s work enough for a lifetime.”

Source : "Journey to the End of the Night". Book by Louis-Ferdinand Celine, 1932.

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