“The sadness of the world has different ways of getting to people, but it seems to succeed almost every time.”— Louis-Ferdinand Céline, amazon.com
“Sadness gives depth. Happiness gives height. Sadness gives roots. Happiness gives branches. Happiness is like a tree going into the sky, and sadness is like the roots going down into the womb of the earth. Both are needed, and the higher a tree goes, the deeper it goes, simultaneously. The bigger th…”— Osho, thepowerofideas.ideapod.com
“There is a place in the heart that will never be filled; a space. And even during the best moments, and the greatest times, we will know it.”— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com
“If my eyes could show my soul, everyone would cry when they saw me smile.”— Kurt Cobain, elephantjournal.com
“A person doesn’t know true hurt and suffering until they’ve felt the pain of falling in love with someone whose affections lie elsewhere.”— Rose Gordon, amazon.com
“I felt like the moon, the stars, and all the planets had fallen on me.”— Harry S Truman, whitehouse.gov
“Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.”— Nicole Krauss, amazon.com
“There is a place in the heart that will never be filled; a space. And even during the best moments, and the greatest times, we will know it.”— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com
“She let out a laugh, and then she put her hand over her mouth, like she was angry at herself for forgetting her sadness.”— Jonathan Safran Foer, amazon.com
“I was in my house, alone in the living room, anxious about you, watching the flashes of lightning. And a flash of lightning lit up this truth for me, right in front of my eye. That night i lost you, I lost something inside me. Or perhaps several things. Something central to my existence, the very su…”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“You could never recognize the kindness in that girl, the depth of her needs, how desperately she wanted to belong.”— Janet Fitch, amazon.com
“It’s easy for someone to joke about scars if they’ve never been cut.”— William Shakespeare, amazon.com
“Long ago, there was something in me, but now that thing is gone. Now that thing is gone, that thing is gone. I cannot cry. I cannot care. That thing will come back no more.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com
“Anger is just a cowardly extension of sadness. It’s a lot easier to be angry at someone than it is to tell them you’re hurt.”— Tom Gates, goodreads.com