Cognitive dissonance Quote by Chila Woychik

“I have no pain, but he has split open my skull. There is no matter, I mean, there is no brain in there. It,…

— Sandra Harner

“I'm more than the flesh and bone that defines me. More than the pain that consumes me and the madness radiating through me. I…

— Christine Fonseca

“What could I become if I stopped worrying about death, about pain, about anything? If I stopped trying to belong?”

— Holly Black

“Every single part of me ached, sort of like the universe was exploding inside my skull, or like my body was tearing itself apart…

— Jess Rothenberg

“Something was unfurling within me from behind the fear of societal expectation. Something true and deep. A part of my soul I'd always known…

— Natasha Boyd

“I felt pain like an assault, The old pain again When the world thrusts itself inside, When we have to take in the outside,…

— May Sarton

“I could not stand it, neither the words on the page nor what they told me about myself. My neck and teeth began to…

— Dorothy Allison

“And now I am sitting in the graveyard, staring at two headstones, and feeling good and bad at the same time. The way we…

— Julene Bair

“I am now in another hole, though I have to say, it is no better than the old one. Living with human beings is…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

“The life I know now is the only one that matters. The suffocation, the luxury, the sleepless nights, and the dead bodies. I’ve always…

— Tahereh Mafi

“For what was living with a man if it wasn't living inside his insanity?”

— Alice Munro

“It seemed to me that I was suddenly in the presence of incosolable, unavoidable, and immense pain. The thought of that death hunted me…

— Hélène Berr