Quotes By Letter: L

“I had a dream my life would be
So different from this hell I'm living
So different now from what it seemed
Now life has killed the dream I dreamed.”

-I Dreamed a Dream, Les Miserables

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“I stood looking down out of the window. The street seemed miles down. Suddenly I felt as if I'd flung myself out of the window. I could see myself lying on the pavement. Then I seemed to be standing by the body on the pavement. I was two people. Blood and brains were scattered everywhere. I knelt down and began licking up the blood and brains.”

-The Golden Notebook, Doris Lessing

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“The therapist looked at the girl with a puzzled face and asked, 'What do you do when your life feels like it's falling apart?'
The girl looked at him and replied, 'I try to kill myself.'”

-Leah Levan

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“It's not what you are, it's what you don't become that hurts.”

-Oscar Levant

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“There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.”

-Oscar Levant

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“Sit down and bargain / all you, like grizzled old foxes / we’ll wall you up in a splendid palace /with food, wine, good beds and a good fire / provided that you discuss, negotiate / for our and your children’s lives /may all the wisdom of the universe /converge to bless your minds / and guide you in the maze / but outside in the cold we will be waiting for you. The army of those who died in vain, we of The Marne, we of Montecassino / Treblinka, Dresden and Hiroshima / and with us will be / the leprous and the people with trachoma / the disappeared ones of Buenos Aires / dead Cambodians and dying Ethiopians / the Prague negotiators / the bled dry of Calcutta / the innocents slaughtered in Bologna / Heaven help you if you come out disagreeing / you’ll be clutched tight in our embrace / we are invincible because we are the conquered / invulnerable because already dead / we laugh at your missiles / sit down and bargain / until your tongues are dry / if the havoc and the shame continue / we’ll drown you in our putrefaction.”

-song of those who died in vain, Primo Levi

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“..It's the educated reader who can be gulled. All our difficulty comes with the others. When did you meet a workman who believes the papers? He takes it for granted that they're all propaganda and skips the leading articles. He buys his paper for the football results and the little paragraphs about girls falling out of windows and corpses found in Mayfair flats. He is our problem. We have to recondition him. But the educated public, the people who read the highbrow weeklies, they don't need reconditioning. They're all right already. They'll believe anything.”

-That Hideous Strength, C.S. Lewis

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“...we escape the struggles and responsibilities of actual life by residing in one that doesn't yet exist.”

-The Screwtape Letters, C.S. Lewis

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“It is funny how mortals always picture us [devils] as putting things into their minds: in reality our best work is done by keeping things out.”

-The Screwtape Letters, C.S. Lewis

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“She's the sort of woman who lives for others - you can always tell the others by their hunted expression.”

-The Screwtape Letters, C.S. Lewis

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“A returned love letter is written in the most violent language, by your own hand.”

-Here Kitty Kitty, Jardine Libaire

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“But one day, the things that make you free start to keep you down.”

-Here Kitty Kitty, Jardine Libaire

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“The hollows around her eyes were darkly glamorous, her mouth sullen: she had the beauty of an insomniac.”

-Here Kitty Kitty, Jardine Libaire

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“Oh my good old friend
I see you chanced your arm again
you cut you arm again.”

-Radio America, The Libertines

Recommended by Ronan.

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“I have said that my grandfather was and had always been a mysteriarch, never a philanthropist of the mind, not a restorer of wounded psyches. In no way did he take a therapeutic approach with the inmates at the sanitarium. He did not view them as souls that were possessed, either by demons or by their own painful histories, but as beings who held a strange alliance with other orders of existence, who contained within themselves a particle of something eternal, a golden speck of magic which he thought might be enlarged. Thus, his ambition led him not to relieve his patients' madness, but to exasperate it -- to let it breathe with a life of its own. And this he did in certain ways that wholly eradicated what human qualities remained in these people. But sometimes that peculiar magic he saw in their eyes would seem to fade, and then he would institute his 'proper treatment,' which consisted of putting them through a battery of hellish ordeals intended to loosen their attachment to the world of humanity and to project them further into the absolute, the realm of the 'silent, staring universe' where the ultimate insanity of the infinite void might work a rather paradoxical cure. The result was something as pathetic as a puppet and as magnificent as the stars, something at once dead and never dying, a thing utterly without destiny and thus imperishable, possessing that abysmal absence of mind, that infinite vacuity which is the essence of all that is immortal.”

-Dr. Locrian's Asylum, Thomas Ligotti

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“You make believe
That nothing is wrong until you're crying.”

-Rearranged, Limp Bizkit

Recommended by Jaine.

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“I am the most miserable man living. If what I feel were equally distributed to the whole human family, there would not be a cheerful face on earth. Whether I shall ever be better I cannot tell; I awfully forebode I shall not. To remain as I am is impossible. I must die or be better.”

-Abraham Lincoln

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“Clutching my cure
I tightly lock the door
I try to catch my breath again
I hurt much more
Than anytime before
I had no options left again.”

-Breaking the Habit, Linkin Park

Recommended by grace.

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“Memories consume
Like opening the wound
I'm picking me apart again
You all assume
I'm safe here in my room
Unless I try to start again.”

-Breaking the Habit, Linkin Park

Recommended by Sango.

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“I am
Little bit of loneliness
A little bit of disregard
A handful of complaints
But I cant help the fact
That everyone can see these scars.”

-Faint, Linkin Park

Recommended by Debbie Dias.

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“It takes a strong person to admit they need help,
But a stronger one to get help.”

-Lisa

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“Sitting alone in my own world
By myself
Euphoric feelings of floating
far away
Slow burning candles
Incense Hendrix
I got my friends.”

-My World, Lit

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“I don't care about happiness if it makes you feel alright
Close your eyes and bite your tongue
And you'll get through the night.”

-Not Inside My Head, Liveonrelease

Recommended by Shay.

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“Smile to yourself and fade, shooting star with a razorblade.”

-Not Inside My Head, Liveonrelease

Recommended by Shay.

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“They call her for dinner, she makes up a reason
She looks at her arms and she rolls down her sleeves
And her mother is starting to see through her lies
And last night her father had tears in his eyes

And they rise in the morning
And they sleep in the dark
And even though nobody's looking
She's falling apart.”

-She's Falling Apart, Lisa Loeb

Recommended by Doodle.

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