“What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.”— John Steinbeck, amazon.com
“After sex, you curl up like a shrimp, something deep inside you ruined, slammed in a place that sickens at slamming, and slowly you fill up with an overwhelming sadness, an elusive gaping worry. You don’t try to explain it, filled with the knowledge that it’s nothing after all, everything filling up…”— Susan Minot, amazon.com
“Certain nights you’d feel a certain surrender, maybe if you’d had wine. The surrender would be forgetting yourself and you’d put your nose to his neck and feel like a squirrel, safe, at rest, in a restful dream. But then you’d start to slip from that and the dark would come in and there’d be a cave.…”— Susan Minot, amazon.com
“People in the real world always say, when something terrible happens, that the sadness and loss and aching pain of the heart will ‘lessen as time passes,’ but it isn’t true. Sorrow and loss are constant, but if we all had to go through our whole lives carrying them the whole time, we wouldn’t be abl…”— Fredrik Backman, amazon.com
“You'll never know where life is gonna take you. You'll never know where your life is gonna go. But you'll never be able to find out if you end it.”— Shane Dawson, amazon.com
“Being brokenhearted is like having broken ribs. On the outside it looks like nothing's wrong, but every breath hurts.”— Greg Behrendt, amazon.com
“For every sad thing you think of, you should think of three happy things to chase it away.”— Zoe Sugg, amazon.com
“There is an ancient tribal proverb I once heard in India. It says that before we can see properly we must first shed our tears to clear the way.”— Libba Bray, amazon.com
“Sadness is a normal human condition, no different from happiness. You wouldn’t think of happiness as an illness. Sadness and happiness need each other.”— Iain Reid, amazon.com
“We must be willing to encounter darkness and despair when they come up and face them, over and over again if need be, without running away or numbing ourselves in the thousands of ways we conjure up to avoid the unavoidable.”— Jon Kabat-Zinn, amazon.com
“There is a kind of crying I hope you have not experienced, and it is not just crying about something terrible that has happened, but a crying for all of the terrible things that have happened, not just to you but to everyone you know and to everyone you don’t know and even the people you don’t want…”— Lemony Snicket, amazon.com
“Happiness is an acquired taste, like coconut cordial or ceviche, to which you can eventually become accustomed, but despair is something surprising each time you encounter it.”— Lemony Snicket, amazon.com
“Oftentimes. when people are miserable, they will want to make other people miserable, too. But it never helps.”— Lemony Snicket, amazon.com
“A good, long session of weeping can often make you feel better, even if your circumstances have not changed one bit.”— Lemony Snicket, amazon.com
“When someone is crying, of course, the noble thing to do is to comfort them. But if someone is trying to hide their tears, it may also be noble to pretend you do not notice them.”— Lemony Snicket, amazon.com