“Sometimes we love with nothing more than hope. Sometimes we cry with everything except tears.”— Gregory David Roberts, amazon.com
“I can imagine a life without you, but it seems impossible dreary, imperfect, unhappy.”— Charles Sheehan-Miles, amazon.com
“People often ask me questions that I cannot very well answer in words, and it makes me sad to think they are unable to hear the voice of my silence.”— Hazrat Inayat Khan, amazon.com
“Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it’s like they didn’t fade away at all.”— Bob Dylan, amazon.com
“You have to protect yourself from sadness. Sadness is very close to hate. Let me tell you this. This is the thing I learned. If you take in someone else’s poison – thinking you can cure them by sharing it – you will instead store it within you.”— Michael Ondaatje, amazon.com
“How could she feel nostalgia when he was right in front of her? How can you suffer from the absence of a person who is present?”— Milan Kundera, amazon.com
“I didn’t know why I was going to cry, but I knew that if anybody spoke to me or looked too closely the tears would fly out of my eyes and the sobs would fly out of my throat and I’d cry for a week.”— Sylvia Plath, 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
“You get depressed because you know that you’re not what you should be.”— Marilyn Manson, goodreads.cm
“Everyone, at some point in their lives, wakes up in the middle of the night with the feeling that they are all alone in the world, and that nobody loves them now and that nobody will ever love them, and that they will never have a decent night’s sleep again and will spend their lives wandering blear…”— Lemony Snicket, amazon.com
“I’ve observed my toddler, barely old enough to walk, confidently swiping her way through an iPad.”— Jean M. Twenge, theatlantic.com
“The more time teens spend looking at screens, the more likely they are to report symptoms of depression.”— Jean M. Twenge, theatlantic.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
“I wanted to go to sleep so that I wouldn’t have to think because the only thing I could think was how much it hurt because there was no room for anything else in my head, but I couldn’t go to sleep and I just had to sit there and there was nothing to do except to wait and to hurt.”— Mark Haddon, amazon.com
“I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.”— Franz Kafka, amazon.com
“I did not like to be touched, but it was a strange dislike. I did not like to be touched because I craved it too much. I wanted to be held very tight so I would not break.”— Marya Hornbacher, amazon.com
“I understand that you care. I just sometimes feel that the people who know me best, are people I’ve never met.”— Iain S. Thomas, amazon.com