Introspective Soul Pillows

"I wish my identity weren't so wrapped up with who I am."

"You haven't moved all day."

'Funny, I thought a near-death experience would be different, somehow.'

"Solitude is so much better if you have someone to share it with."

Brenda Sanchez undergoes her daily moment of ‘Woe Is me.'

Classic Moods

'The 'Being' I can handle. It's the 'Nothingness' that I can't deal with.'

'I have only a few days to live: Can you teach me how to make the most of them?'

Man with head in hands.

"There must be more to life than this" "Oh no there isn't"

'Will you please put that book away? It's bad for business.'

Thinking Sad Thoughts.

Reflection greeting cards.

'It might be all right for some but I'll not have anyone tinkering with my subconscious. Anyway, supposing they found I hadn't got one!'

"I like worrying about the future. I'm so busy I don't regret the past."

The big life questions that really get us thinking.

"Maybe marriage is what I need, Gregorio. Sometiems I wonder if I'm living my life for other people...instead of living life for myself."

Forlorn.

Anxiety Baggage

Prisoner sadly sits looking out his barred window.

"Sure, we're all just tiny specks in a vast and uncaring universe. But some of us are bigger tiny specks than others."

"That couple behind me seem happy enough. Laughing, bantering. Probably holding hands. Not a care in the world. I hate them. The waitress is cute. No eye contact however. And the coffee is cold. She hates me."

That midnight hour when fleeting memories come home to roost.

"There were balloons and games and cake, yet somehow I was infected by a sad sense of time passing."

"Talking to your own reflection? Even your imagination is pathetic."

"You can wrap it up in a pretty package, but it's still life."

Moral compass 2003

"Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious day when you're ripe and not yet mealy?"

"Hey! If you're here to marvel at the smallness of your existence within a glorious, vast and unknowable universe, there's a line!"

"Would you mind? I enjoy leading a life of quiet desperation."

"Ronald can't come to the phone. He's taking stock."

"I feel like there's a chick in me trying to escape."

'Do you believe people have second selves?'

"Is this who I am?"

"Wonder if there's something wrong with you? Reality is for us all it's true..."