"It didnâ€™t and doesnâ€™t turn out well. There is no happy ending to the story of sorrow if you are born with a predilection for despair. The world is, after all, a coarse and brutal and cruel place. Itâ€™s only a matter of how long you can live with it."

-- Elizabeth Wurtzel

#Long Quotes #Sorrow Quotes #Despair Quotes

“Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands of living on their nerves, wringing out their memories and their nightmares to extract meaning, truth, beauty.”
“Medicine is still all about treating populations, not people - one-size-fits all treatments and diagnoses.”
“On the day when we can fully trust each other, there will be peace on Earth.”
“I did some research once on the way people in the past imagined the year 2000. They tended to picture the things they already had getting more sophisticated - flying cars, self-cleaning windows. And the folks in the early 1900s had a wildly optimistic estimate of the future of pneumatic tubes.”
“The things that stop you having sex with age are exactly the same as those that stop you riding a bicycle.”

Source : Alex Comfort (2003). “The Joy of Sex”, p.226, Simon and Schuster
“The paper, the stapler, the staples, the tape. It makes me sick. Physical things. Forty years of loving someone becomes staples and tape.”
“When the well is dry, we know the worth of water.”
“Suddenly this defeat. This rain. The blues gone gray And the browns gone gray And yellow A terrible amber. In the cold streets Your warm body. In whatever room Your warm body. Among all the people Your absence The people who are always Not you. I have been easy with trees Too long. Too familiar with mountains. Joy has been a habit. Now Suddenly This rain.”

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