"Itâ€™s so difficult to describe depression to someone whoâ€™s never been there, because itâ€™s not sadness. I know sadness. Sadness is to cry and to feel. But itâ€™s that cold absence of feelingâ€” that really hollowed-out feeling."

-- J. K. Rowling

#Sadness Quotes #Feelings Quotes #Cold Quotes

“We are told it will be of no use for us to ask this measure of justice--that the ballot be given to the women of our new possessions upon the same terms as to the men--because we shall not get it. It is not our business whether we are going to get it; our business is to make the demand.... Ask for the whole loaf and take what you can get.”
“Today nearly all historians, whether Christians or not, accept that Jesus existed.”
“Now I think poetry will save nothing from oblivion, but I keep writing about the ordinary because for me it's the home of the extraordinary, the only home.”

Source : Philip Levine (2002). “So ask: essays, conversations, and interviews”, Univ of Michigan Pr
“I would be content being a housewife if I could find the kind of man who wouldn't treat me like one.”
“Fiction is my home, I came from fiction, I like to tell stories.”

Source : Source: www.indiewire.com
“I feel the same way about solitude as some people feel about the blessing of the church. It's the light of grace for me. I never close my door behind me without the awareness that I am carrying out an act of mercy toward myself.”

Source : Peter Høeg (2010). “Smilla's Sense of Snow: A Novel”, p.13, Macmillan
“Text messaging is just the most recent focus of people's anxiety; what people are really worried about is a new generation gaining control of what they see as their language.”

Source : "Gr8 db8r takes on linguistic luddites" by John Crace, www.theguardian.com. September 15, 2008.
“From the psychological jousting between sisters in the early family arena emerge the first tentative boundaries of their personalities.”

Source : Elizabeth Fishel (1985). “Sisters: Love and Rivalry Inside the Family and Beyond”, William Morrow & Company

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