“Everyone always wants to know how you can tell when it’s true love, and the answer is this: when the pain doesn’t fade and the scars don’t heal, and it’s too damned late.”— Jonathan Tropper, amazon.com
“If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him.”— Criss Jami, amazon.com
“I don’t hold on to anything anymore. Pain comes at me and I take it, chew it for a few minutes, and spit it back out. It’s just not my thing anymore.”— Dave Eggers, amazon.com
“So much harm comes into this world when the wrong thing is said. But that’s nothing compared to the pain from what goes unsaid.”— Brad Meltzer, amazon.com
“People cry, not because they’re weak. It’s because they’ve been strong for too long.”— Johnny Depp, amazon.com
“One day, whether you are 14, 28 or 65, you will stumble upon someone who will start a fire in you that cannot die. However, the saddest, most awful truth you will ever come to find - is they are not always with whom we spend our lives.”— Beau Taplin, beautaplin.com
“It’s all fine to say, ‘Time will heal everything, this too shall pass away. People will forget’ - and things like that when you are not involved, but when you are there is no passage of time, people do not forget and you are in the middle of something that does not change.”— John Steinbeck, amazon.com
“I am only responsible for my own heart, you offered yours up for the smashing my darling. Only a fool would give out such a vital organ.”— Anaïs Nin, goodreads.com
“I’m a romantic, and we romantics are more sensitive to the way people feel. We love more, and we hurt more. When we’re hurt, we hurt for a long time.”— Freddy Fender, amazon.com
“Perhaps the greatest faculty our minds possess is the ability to cope with pain.”— Patrick Rothfuss, amazon.com
“Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com
“Pain is the feeling. Suffering is the effect the pain inflicts. If one can endure pain, one can live without suffering. If one can withstand pain, one can withstand anything. If one can learn to control pain, one can learn to control oneself.”— James Frey, amazon.com
“All broken hearts are circumstantial. Every lovelorn jerk is the victim of bad timing, good intentions, and someone else’s poor decision making.”— Joshua Ferris, amazon.com
“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.”— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, amazon.com