“You're a brother to me You're my partner in crime You're the feeling I get When I'm feeling fine”— Phoebe Bridgers, open.spotify.com
“What some people don’t seem to understand is that sometimes only the sad songs will do.”— David Denny, narrativemagazine.com
“Madam, in God's presence I speak: I never delighted in the weeping of any of God's creatures; yea I can scarcely well abide the tears of my own boys whom my own hand corrects, much less can I rejoice in your Majesty's weeping.”— John Knox, en.wikiquote.org
“IT'S OKAY to be sad. IT'S OKAY to feel pain. IT'S OKAY to be vulnerable. We are made to have emotions. Don't be afraid to let it out.”— Nadine Lustre, instagram.com
“My poor heart is in an awful state now But it's too late now to call a halt”— John Coltrane, open.spotify.com
“Once in a while will you try to give One little thought to me Though someone else may be Nearer your heart?”— John Coltrane, open.spotify.com
“...there are many indications that it is the future that enters into us like this, in order to be transformed within us, long before it actually occurs. And that is why it is so important to be solitary and attentive when one is sad: because the apparently uneventful and static moment when our futur…”— Rainer Maria Rilke, amazon.com
“...perhaps we should then bear our sadness with greater assurance than our joys. For they are the moments when something new enters into us, something unknown to us...”— Rainer Maria Rilke, amazon.com
“Is it possible to love so desperately that life is unbearable? I don’t mean unrequited, I mean being in the love. In the midst of it and desperate. Because knowing it will end, because everything does. End.”— Peter Heller, amazon.com
“They’re together, but I don’t think they’re happy. I know Mum definitely isn’t.”— Lang Leav, amazon.com
“I loved a man who had opened up a world to me but hadn’t loved me enough to stay in it.”— Jojo Moyes, amazon.com
“I am a cryer. I have always been. When rain pours down from the heavens, angels are crying. I cry tears of joy and sometimes, tears of sadness. After all tears, comes a rainbow.”— Richard Simmons, buzzfeed.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
“I guess that’s what saying good-bye is always like–like jumping off an edge. The worst part is making the choice to do it. Once you’re in the air, there’s nothing you can do but let go.”— Lauren Oliver, amazon.com
“That’s the worst way to miss somebody. When they’re right beside you and you miss them anyway.”— Pittacus Lore, amazon.com
“When someone leaves you once, you expect it to happen again. Eventually you stop getting close enough to people to let them become important to you, because then you don’t notice when they drop of your world.”— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com
“I know you’ll think this is crazy, but all I want to do is hold you, and I think that if you’ll let me do that just for a few seconds, I can walk away, and never speak to you again.”— David Guterson, amazon.com
“I’m sitting here trying to convince myself that I don’t want you, but the more I say it, the less I believe it. I am starting to accept that you never loved me.”— Sade Andria Zabala, sadeandriazabala.com