“What a terrible thing it is to wound someone you really care for - and to do it so unconsciously.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“You’ll ache. And you’re going to love it. It will crush you. And you’re still going to love all of it. Doesn’t it sound lovely beyond belief?”— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com
“I can’t help it. It’s tearing me all up inside. I’m like that all through. I can’t help it.”— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com
“I can’t help it. It’s tearing me all up inside. I’m like that all through. I can’t help it.”— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com
“There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.”— William James, amazon.com
“I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend. Make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous.”— Mary Shelley, amazon.com
“I seek not a fellow feeling in my misery. No sympathy may I ever find. When I first sought it, it was the love of virtue, the feelings of happiness and affection with which my whole being overflowed, that I wished to be participated. But now that virtue has become to me a shadow, and that happiness…”— Mary Shelley, amazon.com
“My heart was fashioned to be susceptible of love and sympathy, and when wrenched by misery to vice and hatred, it did not endure the violence of the change without torture such as you cannot even imagine.”— Mary Shelley, amazon.com
“There are times when you just have to let it all out. All the anger, all the pain.”— John Green, amazon.com
“Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.”— Leo Tolstoy, amazon.com
“We study play because life is crap. Life is crap, and it’s full of pain and suffering, and the only thing that makes it worth living — the only thing that makes it possible to get up in the morning and go on living — is play. Art and play.”— Brian Sutton-Smith, nytimes.com
“It’s not the pain I’m afraid of; I know about the pain. What I’m afraid of is the end of this small, sweet dream.”— Stephen King, amazon.com
“I have learned now that while those who speak about one’s miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.”— C. S. Lewis, goodreads.com