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Quotes that make me want to run away, change my name and fall off the grid completely so that I can escape the life I live and restart somewhere else

By 14th November 2020 February 15th, 2021 One Comment

“What do you do? For a living, I mean.”
“Oh, I’m just visiting.”
– The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976)

“I have this dream of being whole, of not going to sleep each night wanting but still sometimes when the wind is warm or the crickets sing, I dream of a love that even time will lie down for. I just want someone to love me. I want to be seen.” – Practical Magic (1998)

“Everyone always asks if you have a career, are married or own a house as if life was some kind of grocery list. But nobody ever asks if you’re happy.” – Heath Ledger

“Find something you’d die for and then live for it.” – Unknown

“And I seem to have such strength in me now, that I think I could stand anything, any suffering, only to be able to say and to repeat to myself every moment, ‘I exist.’ In thousands of agonies–I exist. I’m tormented on and if I don’t see the sun, I know it’s there. And there’s a whole life in that, in knowing that the sun is there.” – The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Today, destiny is our friend. I can feel it.” – Uncle Iroh, Avatar: The Last Airbender

“Yes, death. Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no to-morrow. To forget time, to forget life, to be at peace. You can help me. You can open for me the portals of death’s house, for love is always with you, and love is stronger than death is.” – The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde

“Come on, dance with me. The world is spinning. We can’t just stand on it.” – Dino Ahmetović

“Suddenly you’re ripped into being alive. And life is pain, and life is suffering, and life is horror, but my god you’re alive and it’s spectacular.” – Joseph Campbell

“It is a serious thing just to be alive on this fresh morning in this broken world.” – Invitation by Marie Oliver

“Never, never tell them. Try and remember that. Never tell anyone anything ever. Never tell anyone anything.” – The Garden of Eden by Ernest Hemingway

“We tried the world, good god, it wasn’t for us.” – Hozier