"Yes -- or rather, it's not so much that I want to die as that I'm tired of living."

-- RyÅ«nosuke Akutagawa

#Tired Quotes #Want Quotes

“Sometimes they work, and sometimes they just won't. Sometimes you get hung up on them. When that happens, you just throw it back, and maybe come back to it two or three weeks later.”
“Never feel safe with the woman you love, for a woman's nature conceals more dangers than you think.”
“Real unselfishness consists in sharing the interests of others.”
“A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.”
“Sometimes I think I'm real predictable to myself and other times... you always wonder, Is this really what I wanted to do? Did I make a mistake? Should I be doing something else?”
“Remember that you are a magnet, attracting everything to you.”
“The mark of a mature, psychologically healthy mind is indeed the ability to live with uncertainty and ambiguity, but only as much as there really is. Uncertainty is no virtue when the facts are clear, and ambiguity is mere obfuscation when more precise terms are applicable.”

Source : "What is this foolish lust for uncertainty?" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. October 28, 2011.
“The departure of our boys to foreign parts with the ever-present possibility that they might never return, taught the real value of photography to every father and mother. To many a mother the photograph of her boy in his country's uniform was the one never-failing consolation.”

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