"When you're depressed, there's no calendar.
There are no dates, there's no day, there's no night,
there's no seconds, there's no minutes,
there's nothing.
You're just existing in this cold, murky, ever-heavy atmosphere, like they put you inside a vial of mercury."

- Rod Steiger, On the Edge of Darkness

"I was much further out than you thought and not waving but drowning."
- Stevie Smith

"I have secluded myself from society; and yet I never meant any such thing.
I have made a captive of myself and put me into a dungeon, and now I cannot find the key to let myself out."
- Nathaniel Hawthorne

I tell people it's like being dead.
It feels like being a ghost, maybe.
You float through your days feeling insubstantial, cut off from warmth, light and all feeling.
Sometimes it feels like you're in a coffin buried alive.
You're screaming inside your head, but no one can hear you.

I guess I could be pretty pissed about what happened to me... but it's hard to stay mad, when there's so much beauty in the world. Sometimes I feel like I'm seeing it all at once, and it's too much, my heart fills up like a balloon that's about to burst...

And then I remember to relax, and stop trying to hold on to it, and then it flows through me like rain and I can't feel anything but gratitude for every single moment of my stupid little life...

You have no idea what I'm talking about, I'm sure... but don't worry...

You will someday.


Lester > American Beauty

Friendship quotes I shared with my friend Peggi today...

"If you're alone, I'll be your shadow.
If you want to cry, I'll be your shoulder.
If you want a hug, I'll be your pillow.
If you need to be happy, I'll be your smile...
But anytime you need a friend, I'll just be me."

- Unknown




To love a person is to learn the song that is in their heart...
And to sing it to them when they have forgotten
- Author Unknown



What is a friend?
A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
- Aristostle



Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another...
"What!
You too?
Thought I was on the only one!"
-C.S. Lewis




Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
They are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
- Marcel Proust


Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive...
And it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
- Anais Nin


A friend is someone who can see the truth and pain in you even when you are fooling everyone else.
- Unknown



Friends are people who help you be more yourself, more the person you are intended to be.
- Merle Shain



A true friend is someone who sees the pain in your eyes while everyone else believes the smile on your face
- Alex

"Organized religion is good for
wars, battles, pissin' and moanin'
and not much else."

Source: Ted Nugent