“I surrender myself to everything. I love, I feel pain, I struggle. The world seems to me wider than the mind, my heart a dark and almighty mystery.”— Nikos Kazantzakis, amazon.com
“You don’t want to let go, but don't want to be hurt, either. It's not a great place to be but what can I tell you?”— Junot Dìaz, amazon.com
“Do you take pride in your hurt? Does it make you seem large and tragic? …Well, think about it. Maybe you’re playing a part on a great stage with only yourself as audience.”— John Steinbeck, amazon.com
“Sometimes we have to truly wallow in our misery so we can learn how to bask in our happiness. Sometimes we have to lose all hope before we find unwavering faith.”— Rania Naim, thoughtcatalog.com
“No truth can cure the sorrow we feel from losing a loved one. No truth, no sincerity, no strength, no kindness can cure that sorrow. All we can do is see it through to the end and learn something from it, but what we learn will be no help in facing the next sorrow that comes to us without warning.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“They were supposed to make you happy. They were supposed to make you feel safe and secure. Instead, they're just making you miserable.”— N.B., instagram.com
“Don't let society fool you into believing that if you don't have a girlfriend or boyfriend then you're destined for a life of misery.”— Miya Yamanouchi, amazon.com
“I know that pain is the most important thing in the universes. Greater than survival, greater than love, greater even than the beauty it brings about. For without pain, there can be no pleasure. Without sadness, there can be no happiness. Without misery there can be no beauty.”— Harlan Ellison, amazon.com
“I was too miserable to take much consolation just from feeling good for a moment.”— Anne Rice, amazon.com
“Pain. Unspeakable pain. It didn’t matter who in this world or any other was staring at me, watching me, seeking to share this moment or merely shuddering as I experienced it. Just didn’t matter. Because in pain like this one is always alone.”— Anne Rice, amazon.com
“You make me miserable. You really do, I want you to know that. Much as I love you, much as I need you, much as I can't exist without you, you make me miserable.”— Anne Rice, amazon.com
“Being lonely doesn’t mean we are pathetic. It doesn’t mean we have no lives, or that we sulk and wallow in our own misery day in and day out. And it doesn’t mean we are lonely 100% of the time. It just means that we’ve stayed strong for too long.”— Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, thoughtcatalog.com
“Stress can ruin everyday of your life, dying can only ruin one.”— Steven Moffat, Sherlock Holmes, Benedict Cumberbatch, imdb.com
“Why do I feel like my heart is ripping in thousands of pieces, taking with it every shred of soul that I still have?”— Eva Scoutt, amazon.com