"Life, as we find it, is too hard for us; it brings us too many pains, disappointments and impossible tasks. In order to bear it we cannot dispense with palliative measures... There are perhaps three such measures: powerful deflections, which cause us to make light of our misery; substitutive satisfactions, which diminish it; and intoxicating substances, which make us insensible to it."

-- Sigmund Freud

#Pain Quotes #Powerful Quotes #Disappointment Quotes

“What we buy belongs to us only when the price is forgotten.”

Source : "Haven: Short Stories, Poems, and Aphorisms". Book by Elizabeth Bibesco, 1951.
“I like to have friends in the kitchen and make a big mess and use every pot in the kitchen.”
“My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next.”
“I never thought that I'd be a role model. Everyone kind of just made me a role model, and I hated that.”
“When you have mental illness you don't have a plaster or a cast or a crutch, that let everyone know that you have the illness, so people expect the same of you as from anyone else and when you are different they give you a hard time and they think you're being difficult or they think you're being a pain in the ***** and they're horrible to you. You spend your life in Ireland trying to hide that you have a mental illness.”
“It is an ill thing to meet a man you thought dead in the woodland at dusk.”
“It's heartbreaking but we're trying to get over it. As disappointed as we were, I think that somehow you have to find a way to think that it happened for a reason.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I've supported myself by writing since 1992, and I'm probably very nearly unemployable by now because employers are likely to be put off by the long gap.”

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