Courage Quote by Banana Yoshimoto

“At some point it dawned on me that I might actually be in big, big trouble. The thought was immediately followed by the staggering…

— Kristen Johnston

“In the end, there was always your regular life, and no one could deal with it but you.”

— Curtis Sittenfeld

“So I forced myself to step out of my comfort zone and go out and connect with people. I realised that no one knew…

— Charlotte Eriksson

“I was feeling unfulfilled and, frankly, rather crappy about everything. I wasn't going anywhere and neither was the rest of the world. We were…

— Charles Bukowski

“I don’t want to get to the end of my life and look back and realize that the best thing about me was I…

— Shauna Niequist

“At the time, my life just seemed too complete, and maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

“I'd wasted so much of my life. So many of my days, and all of my promise, all of my dreams, lost to hospitals,…

— Alexis Hall

“I just couldn't go there yet. Settle for less. I didn't want to process through anything. I didn't want to pick up any pieces.…

— Chuck Palahniuk

“It wasn’t what I’d characterize as a happy part of my life, living as I was, a balled-up mass of unfulfilled desires. I was…

— Haruki Murakami

“I seriously believed I could escape myself–as long as I made the effort. But I always hit a dead end. No matter where I…

— Haruki Murakami

“I was so tired of fighting. Tired of hurting. Tired of the guilt that never released me, and the regrets that could not be…

— Rebecca Donovan

“I had carried on when all I wanted was to be dead. I had stayed alive for other people. I never stayed alive for…

— Sally Brampton