"We accumulate pain, collect it. ... We display it, stack it up into a pile, then we stack it up into a mountain, so we can climb up onto it, waiting for or demanding sympathy: "Hey, do you see how big my pain is?""

-- Marlena De Blasi

#Pain Quotes #Waiting Quotes #Feelings Quotes

“We killed an innocent girl”
“I don't need an Iron Man suit. I'm already a weapon of mass seduction.”
“Our country is wherever we are well off. [Lat., Patria est, ubicunque est bene.]”
“My job as a comedian is to heighten awareness about locally grown produce, fight factory farming, and promote euthanasia, but in a funny way.”
“All of the things I've directed, I'm really emotionally close to. That's why I choose to direct them and spend years on them.”
“God's glory is His goodness.”
“The male image has been so pulled down by situation comedy in the last 15 years, it is frightening. I don't like what has happened to the American male.”
“Congratulations," he said, his voice dry. "You finally managed to find a woman as tragically noble as yourself. I didn't think one existed." "I'm not tragic." Kaldar held up his hand. "Spare me. Some children are born wearing a silk shirt; you were born wrapped in melancholy. When they slapped you to make you cry, you just sighed heavily and a single tear rolled from your eye." He dragged his finger from the corner of his left eye to his cheek. " Your first words were probably 'woe is me.'" "My first words were 'Kaldar, shut up!' because you talked too much. Still do.”

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