Most Days Are Good But Tonight I Miss You

“If only I can make this pain pretty, we tell ourselves, then it mattered.”

— Heidi Priebe, amazon.com

“Human beings can withstand a week without water, two weeks without food, many years of homelessness, but not loneliness. It is the worst of all tortures, the worst of all sufferings.”

— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com

“If pain must come, may it come quickly. Because I have a life to live, and I need to live it in the best way possible.”

— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com

“It was good for a while, being empty. I didn’t hurt anymore. But as time went on, it was like I could hear myself from far away, begging for permission to come back.”

— Myra McEntire, amazon.com

“Just for the record, she still loves you. She wouldn’t bother to torture you if she didn’t.”

— Chuck Palahniuk, amazon.com

“My heart might be bruised, but it will recover and become capable of seeing beauty of life once more. It's happened before, it will happen again, I'm sure.”

— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com

“Our scars make us know that our past was for real.”

— Jane Austen, amazon.com

“When a person tells you that you hurt them, you don't get to decide that you didn't.”

— Louis CK, huffingtonpost.com

“Getting over it doesn't mean forgetting it, it just means reducing the pain to a tolerable level, a level that doesn't destroy you.”

— Kevin Brooks, amazon.com

“You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you.”

— John Green, amazon.com

“People fall so in love with their pain, they can’t leave it behind.”

— Chuck Palahniuk, amazon.com

“The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.”

— Chuck Palahniuk, amazon.com

“Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated.”

— Alphonse de Lamartine, amazon.com

“When you are missing someone, time seems to move slower, and when I’m falling in love with someone, time seems to be moving faster.”

— Taylor Swift, stellar.ie

“No matter how long it’s been, there are times when it suddenly becomes harder to breathe.”

— Anonymous, usurnsonline.com

“I keep myself busy with the things I do. But every time I pause, I still think of you.”

— Anonymous, thedailyquotes.com

“Pain is not the same as suffering. Left to itself, the body discharges pain spontaneously, letting go of it the moment that the underlying cause is healed. Suffering is pain that we hold on to. It comes from the mind’s mysterious instinct to believe that pain is good, or that it cannot be escaped, o…”

— Deepak Chopra, amazon.com

“People fail to understand that tragedy and silence have the exact same address.”

— Salmah Hamid, thoughtcatalog.com

“I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.”

— James Baldwin, amazon.com

“Believe me, every heart has its secret sorrows, which the world knows not, and oftentimes we call a man cold, when he is only sad.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, amazon.com

“You will lose someone you can’t live without,and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved. But this is also the good news. They live forever in your broken heart that doesn’t seal back up. And you come through. It’s like having…”

— Anne Lamott, books.google.com

“When you care about someone, hurt is kinda part of the package.”

— Rich Jepson, amazon.com

“The marks humans leave are too often scars.”

— John Green, amazon.com

“That’s the thing about pain, it demands to be felt.”

— John Green, Augustus Waters, amazon.com

“That is all I want in life: for this pain to seem purposeful.”

— Elizabeth Wurtzel, amazon.com

“And I’ve just got to let myself feel the pain, because if I don’t, if I keep numbing it, it’ll never really go away.”

— Paula Hawkins, amazon.com

“You can love someone so much… But you can never love someone as much as you miss them.”

— John Green, amazon.com

“It’s easy for someone to joke about scars if they’ve never been cut.”

— William Shakespeare, amazon.com

“The risk of love is loss, and the price of loss is grief – But the pain of grief is only a shadow when compared with the pain of never risking love.”

— Hilary Stanton Zunin, thoughtcatalog.com

“It's strange how pain marks our faces, and makes us look like family.”

— Stephen King, amazon.com