“He told himself he had never felt so happy, and he felt a sort of ache that this was happening and would never again happen in just this way no matter how long he lived.”— David Guterson, amazon.com
“Nothing is worse than when someone who’s supposed to love you just leaves.”— Ava Dellaira, amazon.com
“Sometimes we get sad about things and we don’t like to tell other people that we are sad about them. We like to keep it a secret. Or sometimes, we are sad but we really don’t know why we are sad, so we say we aren’t sad but we really are.”— Mark Haddon, amazon.com
“The French have a phrase for it. The bastards have a phrase for everything and they are always right. To say goodbye is to die a little.”— Raymond Chandler, amazon.com
“Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves. So anyone who’s in love gets sad when they think of their lover. It’s like stepping back inside a room you have fond memories of, one you haven’t seen in a long time.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.”— W. Somerset Maugham, amazon.com
“I will tell you what she was like. She was like a piano in a country where everyone has had their hands cut off.”— Angela Carter, amazon.com
“People die of broken hearts. They have heart attacks. And it’s the heart that hurts most when things go wrong and fall apart.”— Markus Zusak, amazon.com
“Sometimes you think you want something, when in reality you need to let it go.”— Marie Rutkoski, amazon.com
“No single word in English renders all the shades of toska. At its deepest and most painful, it is a sensation of great spiritual anguish, often without any specific cause. At less morbid levels it is a dull ache of the soul, a longing with nothing to long for, a sick pining, a vague restlessness, me…”— Vladimir Nabokov, thereviewreview.net
“I went inside my heart to see how it was. Something there makes me hear the whole world weeping.”— Rumi, goodreads.com
“And when you cry, I’ll be right there telling you, you were never anything less than beautiful.”— Lana Del Rey, play.spotify.com
“There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.”— Adrienne Rich, amazon.com
“I think sadness prevails in Syria now. We don’t feel anything else but sadness because we have this killing every day, whether with chemical or any other kind. It’s not about how. We feel with it every day.”— Bashar Al Assad, legrandsoir.info
“Your only problem, perhaps, is that you scream without letting yourself cry.”— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.com