Top 30 Francisco X. Stork Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “I don’t want anything. I simply don’t want.”

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2. “The decision to act against evil is not measured by the impact it has on the evil but by the impact it has on the person who acts.”

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3. “I deal with people like him a hundred times a day. They look at me and naturally assume I’m not as smart as they are. God help us. But think about it, it’s a tremendous tactical advantage, not to mention personally liberating, to haveothers think I’m a dummy.”

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4. “There are two different questions: Do you want to die? and Do you want to live? But in the darkness of my mind, not wanting to live and wanting to die don’t seem like two things you can pull apart. They’re wrapped up in the no more that I feel right now.”

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5. “But to like your life, you’re going to need more than medication.”

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6. “How do we live with all the suffering? We see our ugly parts, and then we are able to forgive, love kindness, walk humbly.”

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7. “You are not the clouds or even the blue sky where clouds live. You are the sun behind them, giving light to all, and the sun is made up of goodness and kindness and light.”

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8. “My brain is like a water faucet that I can turn on or off. Only now there is no off and the water of thoughts just flows.”

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9. “Be in the world but not of the world.′ The words are from Jesus. But I have not the slightest idea how to accomplish that or even if it’s possible. The world will always poke you in the chest with its index finger.”

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10. “Because doing what is right is in your bones. Just follow where your bones take you.”

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11. “There’s two of me. The person I carry around like a dead carcass inside of me and the one I show to others.”

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12. “Thoughts are clouds, Vicky. They are not you. The cloud of wanting to die appears, and if you don’t grab it, it will eventually float away. The cloud that says I’m lazy and a coward and a phony to boot floats before you, and you can calmly watch it come and go. You are not the clouds or even the blue sky where clouds live. You are the sun behind them, giving light to all, and the sun is made up of goodness and kindness and life.”

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13. “It’s hard to accept that depression is an illness, that moping around from day to day with no will for so many years is not my fault.”

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14. “My father looks at me the way he is looking at my mother in one of their wedding pictures: like he can’t believe that she is with him now and will be with him forever, that she has chosen to be with him out of all the men in the known world.”

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15. “There are better sources of energy. Like love, or wanting to do something with your life. Anger makes you sick. It makes you go after hurtful things, as if hurting yourself is a way to get revenge on the person who hurt you.”

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16. “There is pain in the body or the heart or the soul or the mind or all of the above. Body pain is obvious. Heart pain is the pain that comes from others, when they love you too much or not enough or the wrong way. Soul pain comes from feel your life is one big waste. Mind pain is what I can’t figure out. It’s like when you throw body, heart, and soul pain into a blender, then you add a cup of disgust at all that you are, at all that you’ve become, at all that you will ever be.”

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17. “Is there any way to avoid the emptiness of people’s absence?”

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18. “Mona says that talking heals, but at times like this, I think that just being next to someone who likes you is all anybody ever needs.”

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19. “The “real stuff” is what he calls the music that is piped in through the speaker in the machine. The music that comes from inside my head is not considered real.”

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20. “It’s like what flight attendants tell you about the oxygen masks that plop down in an emergency: First you put yours on, and then you put it on the child next to you.” She.”

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21. “The attraction here is based on man’s need to conquer and tame, but also to hoard and deprive others of the prize.”

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22. “It’s a sadness that has been knocking at my door for a long time, and I finally let it in.”

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23. “I’m sick of faking strong.”

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24. “What goes through the minds of men when they hurt them? Isn’t there a spark of conscience somewhere in them telling them to stop? How is it possible that they forget their sisters or mothers when they abuse another woman?”

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25. “You say that as if pretending were a sin. We all do that kind of pretending to survive... Some pretending is necessary and even good. We can tolerate all the pretending we need to do if we have some islands of honesty in our lives. Places where we don’t lie to others. Most of all, places where we don’t lie to ourselves.”

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26. “Doesn’t it always boil down to pain?”

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27. “Happiness had knocked on my door, and I opened it long enough to see that I didn’t want what was being offered.”

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28. “You shouldn’t talk to people about the future if you don’t believe in one for yourself.”

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29. “But all I can feel right now is that someone turned on a light just long enough for me to see what I could never have, so that it would hurt me even more than if I had never seen it.”

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30. “Can you hope for hope?”

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31. “The words are being forced out by a presence so weak and new I didn’t even know it was there.”

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32. “What’s better? To hurt from your want or to be so dead inside that you don’t want anything? I don’t want anything.”

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33. “She doesn’t need to believe in God or even remember Him to do His work. Her belief is in her deeds, which is okay.”

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34. “I think for a few moments. Sometimes I think that the reason I’m not ambitious and I don’t care about what my family cares about is that I’m lazy and... not all that smart. Dr. Desai gives me one of those get serious looks.”

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