“What have I become, my sweetest friend? Everyone I know goes away in the end. And you could have it all my empire of dirt. I will let you down. I will make you hurt.”— Johnny Cash, play.spotify.com
“I'm afraid in order to escape this place, you will need to suffer more.”— Lisa Joy, Jonathan Nolan, Dr. Robert Ford, Anthony Hopkins, imdb.com
“When you're suffering that's when you're most real”— Lisa Joy, Jonathan Nolan, The Man in Black, Ed Harris, imdb.com
“Love sucks. Sometimes it feels good. Sometimes it's just another way to bleed.”— Laurell K. Hamilton, amazon.com
“No matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close.”— Chuck Palahniuk, amazon.com
“The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.”— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com
“This unrequited love business was driving him crazy. It was a feeling that took you over, mind, body, and soul. Worse than a drug that tore apart your flesh and spirit, and without which you simply could not live.”— Mirella Muffarotto, amazon.com
“Sometimes love is pastel. Sometimes love is black. And sometimes love is fiery red and you feel as if you are going to burn in the flames.”— Chloe Thurlow, amazon.com
“Is this love? Does love need to hurt this much? Or is this a forced kind of love that slaughters all involved?”— Tali Alexander, amazon.com
“There had been other men. She'd flung herself at other closed windows. The windows never broke, but her heart, at the end, was in splinters.”— Rebecca Makkai, amazon.com
“Real love brings pain. Real love means sacrifices and hurts and all the thousand shocks of life. But it also means beauty, true beauty.”— Anne Elisabeth Stengl, amazon.com
“Detachment doesn’t mean you don’t let the experience penetrate you. On the contrary, you let it penetrate you fully. That’s how you are able to leave it… Take any emotion—love for a woman, or grief for a loved one, or what I’m going through, fear and pain from a deadly illness. If you hold back on t…”— Morrie Schwartz, amazon.com