"If you believe suicide will bring you peace, or at the very least just an end to everything you hate- you are displaying self-caring behavior. You are still able to actively seek solutions to your problems. You are willing to go to great lengths to provide what you believe will be soothing to yourself. This strikes me as optimistic."

-- Augusten Burroughs

#Suicide Quotes #Hate Quotes #Believe Quotes

“The main trouble with women is that they will just not put the seat back up again.”
“I don`t know the facts surrounding Andrew Jarecki`s work. I think it`s a triumph of television. But it does raise troubling issues that I think we as a documentary community, you know, need to address.”
“It is reality that awakens possibilities, and nothing would be more perverse than to deny it.”
“Zoe Saldana is such an angel. Sheâ€™s got such an openness and vulnerability on camera and yet such great strength. She can kick ***** with the best of them, but then she can soften and open up in a way that is magnetizing whether youâ€™re watching her on set or on screen â€“ sheâ€™s got a real power to her. I love her; weâ€™ve known each other for years and itâ€™s great to come back to that kind of familiarity, especially when youâ€™re working with such intimacy.”
“To me it is unthinkable that a real atheist could be a scientist.”
“I lived on couches for something like six months. I had no home. I was totally broke. I would stay at a friend's house for two weeks, then move because I didn't want to become this permanent mooch.”
“The normal is that which nobody quite is. If you listen to seemingly dull people very closely, you'll see that they're all mad in different and interesting ways, and are merely struggling to hide it.”
“Truth is a woman. That is why it is enigmatic.”

Source : Lawrence Durrell (2012). “The Alexandria Quartet: Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea”, p.317, Faber & Faber

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