Jean Gerber

For Cynics With Deep Hearts And Dark Minds

I am born out of discord.
Sade Andria Zabala
January 5, 2017
“As a recluse I couldn’t bear traffic. It had nothing to do with jealousy, I simply disliked people, crowds, anywhere, except at my readings. People diminished me, they sucked me dry.”
— Charles Bukowski, Women
Tagged: Anti-Social, Alone, Traffic, People Are Vampires
“ I feel like the only way to keep moving is to stay numb.”
— Anonymous, Humans of New York
Tagged: Empty, Numb, Life, Tired, perseverance, Hardship
“I’m tired, tired of being enclosed here. I’m wearying to escape into that glorious world, and to be always there; not seeing it dimly through tears, and yearning for it through the walls of an aching heart; but really with it, and in it.”
— Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
Tagged: Tired, Tired Of Being Tired, Enclosed, Breaking Free, Craving Escape, Feeling Stuck
“How I would like to believe in tenderness.”
— Sylvia Plath, The Moon and the Yew Tree
Tagged: Poetry, Literature, Soft
“Human beings can be awful cruel to one another.”
— Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Amazon Classics Edition)
Tagged: human beings, humanity, Cruelty, Hate, discrimination, bigotry, racism, Thoughts, Philosophy
“nothing
feels like loss
anymore.”
— Orooj-e-Zafar, 16.12.2014
Tagged: War, Death, Losing Hope, Hopelessness, Apathy, Empty
“Nobody chooses this madness,
it just is and it eats and sings.”
— Jonatan Allin, In The Backwoods
Tagged: War, Death, Losing Hope, Life
“I am the kind of tired that sleep just cannot fix.”
— Tyler Knott Gregson, Without You, I Am The Kind Of Broken That Can’t Be Fixed
Tagged: Tired, Exhaustion, Sleep Cannot Fix, broken
“I don’t need your sad. I have enough of my own.”
— Fortesa Latifi, Tumblr
Tagged: Sadness, Depression, Poetry
“When God gives you a swastika, he opens a window. And then you remember there is no God.”
— Red Reznikov, Orange Is The New Black: "Season 4, Episode 08"
Tagged: OITNB, God, Faith, Losing Hope
“It's kind of depressing, if you think about it. I mean, me being so young, and yet so cynical and suspicious.”
— Meg Cabot, Ninth Key (The Mediator, Book 2)
Tagged: depressing, Cynical, suspicious, young
“It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!”
— May Sarton, Fear Of Love Sayings and Quotes
Tagged: Fear Of Love, Relationships
“There is hope, but not for us.”
— Franz Kafka, The Inevitable: Contemporary Writers Confront Death
Tagged: Pessimism, No Hope, No Future, Defeat
“No one could ever hate me as much as I hate myself.”
— Hannah Horvath, Girls
Tagged: Girls, Self-Loathing, Hatred, Self-hatred, Self-Esteem
“But if it weren’t for the coffee, I’d have no identifiable personality whatsoever.”
— David Letterman, National Coffee Day
Tagged: Coffee, Personality
“Cruelty is easy, cheap and rampant.”
— Brené Brown, The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are
Tagged: Cruelty, Choices, Love, Hatred
“The most identifying trait of humanity is our ability to be inhumane to one another.”
— Dean Koontz, Odd Thomas: An Odd Thomas Novel
Tagged: humanity, inhumane, mean
“Darkness dwells within even the best of us. In the worst of us, darkness not only dwells but reins.”
— Dean Koontz, Strange Highways
Tagged: Darkness, Evil, humanity
“For someone with such an intense need to be liked you'd think I would have figured out how to be less of an a--hole.”
— Anna Kendrick, Anna Kendrick
Tagged: Funny Quotes, asshole
“People do terrible things, sometimes, for the best reasons.”
— Lauren Oliver, Delirium (Delirium Trilogy)
Tagged: People, Evil, mean
“If nobody hates you, you're doing something wrong.”
— Dr. Gregory House, House, Season 4: Games
Tagged: Hatred, Likeability
“Surrender.
Deserve it.
The trick is your body itself
is a violence.”
— Camille Rankine, Incorrect Merciful Impulses
Tagged: Poetry, Spilled Ink, feminism
“Crawl inside this body - find me where I am most ruined. Love me there.”
— Rune Lazuli, via Tumblr
Tagged: Love, Spilled Ink, Cynic, Unconditional Love
“Where were you when I was still kind?”
— Gregory Alan Isakov, Master & A Hound
Tagged: Bitter, Cold Heart, Pessimist
“I am born entire, out of hatred, out of discord.”
— Virginia Woolf, The Waves
Tagged: Hate, Cynic, Bitter, I Hate People, asshole
“Be the villain you were born to be. Stop waiting for someone to come along and corrupt you. Succumb to the darkness yourself.”
— evilsupplyco, via Tumblr
Tagged: villain, Evil, Bad Guy, Motivational, Spilled Ink
“i naturally look mean but it keeps the weak people away.”
— Unknown, via Tumblr
Tagged: Bitch, I Hate People, mean, Resting Bitch Face, Tumblr, LOL
“We speak the right words. Then we create life itself out of chaos.”
— Dr. Robert Ford, Westworld, Westworld Season 1: Chestnut
Tagged: The Right Words, Creating Order, Langauge, Creativity, Power of Words