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"It requires more courage to suffer than to die."

~Napoleon Bonaparte I

"Call me what you want...
But if you want to call me your Friend...
Call me by my Name."

said while in discussion about being labled on BUS

~a BUSer

"The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain."

~Lord George Gordon Noel Byron
poet, playwright, & satirist (1788—1824)

"Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal."

~Albert Camus

"The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears."

~John Vance Cheney
poet (1848—1922)

"A life predicated on being obedient and taking orders is a very comfortable life indeed. Living in such a way reduces to a minimum one's own need to think."

~Adolf Eichmann

"When you can't remember why you're hurt, that's when you're healed."

~Jane Fonda

"What is to give light must endure burning."

~Viktor Frankl

"Deep experience is never peaceful."

~Henry James

"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves."

~Carl Jung
psychologist (1875—1961)

"It always strikes me as funny that medications say 'in case of accidental overdose seek professional help immediately or call poison control'. Do non-accidental overdoses not exist or just not count?"

~Kara

"The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain."

~Karl Marx
(1818—1883)

"We live, not as we wish to, but as we can."

~Menander

"The poet is a faker
Who's so good at his act
He even fakes the pain
Of pain he feels in fact"

Pessoa-himself: "Autopsychography"

~Fernando António Nogueira Pessoa
Poet (1888—1935)

"It is extreme evil to depart from the company of the living before you die."

~Lucius Annaeus Seneca
(ca. 4 BCE—65 CE)

"Self-love is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting."

~William Shakespeare

"People who live in glass houses shouldn't cavort nude on top of the piano doing gorilla impersonations."

on BUS

~Shayd

"I will be okay later... now I am not... and that too, is okay."

on BUS

~Sonja

"Poetry can be a form of release. It took me a long time to begin writing poetry."

on BUS

~Meg Spencer

"Pain and love—the whole of life, in short—cannot be looked on as a disease just because they make us suffer."

"Confessions of Zeno"

~Italo Sveno

"The deeper the sorrow the less tongue it has."

~the Talmud

"I gotta help my body forgive my soul."

"Color Me Once"

~Violent Femmes

"Time, more than ritual, heals the wound."

"From the Enemy's Point of View: Humanity and Divinity in an Amazonian Society" ch.7 sect.3

~Eduardo Viveiros de Castro

"I am afraid of being myself."

Lady Windermere, "Lady Windermere's Fan"

"There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us."

~Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde
poet, novelist, & playwright (1854—1900)

"Even now, there is a close association in my gut between feeling and pain. Logically, I recognize that feeling is, often is, pleasure and delight. Nevertheless, at an instinctual level, at a level outside of logic, feeling is pain."

"Gut Symmetries" (1997)

~Jeanette Winterson

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