Mental health Quote by Sei Shōnagon Download Open image ““If writing did not exist, what terrible depressions we should suffer from.”” — Sei Shōnagon ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Mental health Writing
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“Writing is a defence against boredom, but it's also a cure for melancholy.” — Bohumil Hrabal Copy Share Image
There is nothing in the whole world so painful as feeling that one is not liked. It always seems to me that people who… — Sei Shonagon Copy Share Image
“ 134. Letters are Commonplace Letters are commonplace enough, yet what splendid things they are! When someone is in a distant province and one… — Sei Shonagon Copy Share Image
“71. Rare Things -- A son-in-law who's praised by his wife's father. Likewise, a wife who's loved by her mother-in-law. A pair of silver… — Sei Shōnagon Copy Share Image
“Equally disagreeable is the man who, when leaving in the middle of the night, takes care to fasten the cord of his headdress. This… — Sei Shōnagon Copy Share Image
A man who has nothing in particular to recommend him discusses all sorts of subjects at random as if he knew everything. — Sei Shonagon Copy Share Image
“ In spring it is the dawn that is most beautiful. As the light creeps over the hills, their outlines are dyed a faint… — Sei Shônagon Copy Share Image
“ 64. Surprising and Distressing Things While one is cleaning a decorative comb, something catches in the teeth and the comb breaks. A carriage… — Sei Shonagon Copy Share Image
A good lover will behave just as elegantly at dawn as at any other time. — Sei Shonagon Copy Share Image
There is nothing in the whole world so painful as feeling that one is not liked. — Sei Shonagon Copy Share Image
Pleasing things: finding a large number of tales that one has not read before. Or acquiring the second volume of a tale whose first… — Sei Shonagon Copy Share Image
If letters did not exist, what dark depressions would come over one! When one has been worrying about something and wants to tell a… — Sei Shonagon Copy Share Image
“In spring, it is the dawn. As the light gradually brightens the mountain edge, slightly glowing - with slender trails of clouds tinted faintly… — Sei Shōnagon Copy Share Image
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