Tell-all Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

“I suppose it's comfort, perhaps a sense of self-control, doing worse things to yourself than the world will ever dare to inflict.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

“But I know better than anyone how dangerous trying can be, and how destructive. Maybe it's better to let bad things happen than tear…

— Alaya Dawn Johnson

“If the world appears abundant in smiles or overwhelmed by scowls, you might ask yourself if you're not to blame.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

“It's about not taking things personally. Even when you feel the world is crumbling around you. It's about choosing happiness over suffering. It's about…

— Laura Munson

“it takes more courage to heal the world’s hurts than to inflict them.”

— Ann Aguirre

“I would rather be exposed to all their torments than be obliged to think about them in order to protect myself from their attacks.”

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“I wanted to mend the entire world all at once, but in such longings found that I'd already caused too much harm.”

— Daniel Kine

“...and I wondered, not for the first time, if some of life's tragedy arose when people put themselves in situations they were not by…

— Charlotte Rogan

“You’d be a part of my life. My world. You’d get hard and cunning to survive, or you’d stay gentle and die.”

— C.D. Reiss

“I guess when the world’s crumbling around you the only way to survive is to comfort yourself,” he said.”

— Diane Chamberlain

“Sometimes, we inflict misery on others no matter how hard we try not to.”

— Lilas Taha

“There is a real-enough danger, I suppose, that sooner or later I'll bog down, perhaps disappear entirely, in my own methods, locutions, and mannerisms.…

— J.D. Salinger