“What’s wrong is that every morning and every night, I lie in bed wondering why you’re not beside me.”— K.A. Tucker, amazon.com
“One of the reasons why we crave love, and seek it so desperately, is that love is the only cure for loneliness, and shame, and sorrow. But some feelings sink so deep into the heart that only loneliness can help you find them again. Some truths about yourself are so painful that only shame can help y…”— Gregory David Roberts, amazon.com
“I kissed her until there was more happiness inside me than sadness.”— Benjamin Alire Sáenz, amazon.com
“Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.”— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, amazon.com
“Lonely people tend, rather, to be lonely because they decline to bear the psychic costs of being around other humans. They are allergic to people. People affect them too strongly.”— David Foster Wallace, 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
“I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own. I like mine.”— Henry Rollins, great-quotes.com
“No one likes to see people in moods of despair they themselves have survived.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com
“I am not sad, he would repeat to himself over and over, I am not sad. As if he might one day convince himself. Or fool himself. Or convince others – The only thing worse than being sad is for others to know that you are sad.”— Jonathan Safran Foer, amazon.com
“We definitely come from the sea because our tears are salted and when we let them fall on the cheek of time, the sea within us that has always been there dribbles on our face.”— Sorin Cerin, amazon.com
“He knew he would always be the sad one: caged in that little round of skull, imprisoned in that beating and most secret heart, his life must always walk down lonely passages. Lost. He understood that men were forever strangers to one another, that no one ever comes really to know any one.”— Thomas Wolfe, amazon.com
“When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.”— Kahlil Gibran, amazon.com
“Death! Strange that there should be such a word, and such a thing, and we ever forget it; that one should be living, warm and beautiful, full of hopes, desires and wants, one day, and the next be gone, utterly gone, and forever!”— Harriet Beecher Stowe, amazon.com
“You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.”— Jonathan Safran Foer, amazon.com
“We spoke endlessly about everything and nothing. Now, I cannot even remember the sound of your voice.”— Michael Faudet, twitter.com
“I felt like crying but nothing came out. It was just a sort of sad sickness, sick sad, when you can’t feel any worse. I think you know it. I think everybody knows it now and then. But I think I have known it pretty often, too often.”— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com
“There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, There now, hang on, you’ll get over it.Sadness is more or less like a head cold- with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.”— Barbara Kingsolver, amazon.com