Acid Quote by Ellen Willis

People say you need to be strong, smart, and lucky to survive hard times, war, a natural disaster, or physical torture. But I say…

— Lisa See

Death: the only true emotion felt in an apathetic world

— Mitch Albom

I felt like anything rather than rejoicing at the downfall of a foe who had fought so long and valiantly, and had suffered so…

— Ulysses S. Grant

Ten years ago, I still feared loss enough to abandon myself in order to keep things stable. I'd smile when I was sad, pretend…

— Martha Beck

It had been only through books-at best, no more than vicarious cultural transfusions-that I had managaed to keep myself alive in a negatively vital…

— Richard Wright

By this time I was no longer very much terrified or very miserable. I had, as it were, passed the limit of terror and…

— Anonymous

I ran out of money, I was living with my parents during the pandemic. I was working the drive-through. Like a lot of us…

— Chappell Roan

“Attitude Is Everything We live in a culture that is blind to betrayal and intolerant of emotional pain. In New Age crowds here on…

— Sandra Lee Dennis

There was no way to laugh anymore, to love, to care, and there was a sense of guilt in having survived when others had…

— Romeo Dallaire

Once one has been to these challenging terrible places they’re always strangely drawn back… because there’s nothing that can compare to seeing the raw…

— Dan Eldon

There is often in people in whom 'the worst' has happened an almost transcendent freedom, for they have faced 'the worst' and survived it.

— Carol Lynn Pearson

I was extremely timid and to be made to feel that I was not wanted, although in a place where I had every right…

— Henry Ossawa Tanner