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"Loneliness is something that finds us all when we think about it and when we’re by ourselves when we don’t want to be. It creeps up when we desperately feel like we need someone special but can’t seem to find anything more than a friend that wishes they could help. Sometimes a friend cannot be found when you’re willing to settle for one. Sometimes it passes quickly, and sometimes it sticks around to try to drive us to insanity. It’s like a creature lying in wait to take us at our weakest moment, but only toying with us when we give up to it. In the end it always passes. There is always something to appreciate and someone to cheer us up. We adapt and overcome. Life is a gift with much more to it than a passing emotion. All around us are beautiful things to console us. Life is much more than one feeling. It is as great as we let it be.” - Joshua Hartzell

“The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.” - Alan Watts

"Do you believe there is a demimonde? A half-world between what we know and what we fear? A place in the shadows, rarely seen but deeply felt." - Vanessa, Penny Dreadful

"Do not weep. I have learned that skill. It brings no solace." - The Creature, Penny Dreadful

"Hunger, a poet once said, is the most important thing we know, the first lesson we learn. But hunger can be easily quieted down, easily satiated. There is another force, a different type of hunger, an unquenchable thirst that cannot be extinguished. Its very existence is what defines us, make us human. That force is love." - Abraham, The Strain

“The mask does not hide the face, it is the face.” - Deleuze and Guattari, A Thousand Plateuas 

“…Love acknowledges no power, nothing that separates, differentiates, ranks higher or subordinates. Because the state of being loved carries with it no respect, ambitious men secretly or openly baulk at it.” - Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human, Part I

“The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line. The objection to it is not that it is predominantly painful, but that it is lacking in sense.” - H.L. Mencken, A Mencken Chrestomathy 

“Passion cannot exist without excess.” - Blaise Pascal, Discourse on the Passion of Love

“I spent a long time looking at faces, drinking in smiles. Am I happy or unhappy? It’s not a very important question. I live with such frenzied intensity. Things and people are waiting for me, and doubtless I am waiting for them and desiring them with all my strength and sadness. But, here, I earn the right to be alive by silence and by secrecy. The miracle of not having to talk about oneself." - Albert Camus, Notebooks 1935-1943

"One by one I drowned all the people I'd been." - Conor Oberst

“I've lived so little that I tend to imagine I'm not going to die; it seems improbable that human existence can be reduced to so little; one imagines, in spite of oneself, that sooner or later something is bound to happen. A big mistake. A life can just as well be both empty and short. The days slip by indifferently, leaving neither trace nor memory; and then all of a sudden they stop.” - Michel Houellebecq, Whatever