“Don’t dwell on things. Don’t stay in one place too long. It was the only way to stay ahead of sadness.”— Rick Riordan, amazon.com
“All through the night, men looked at the sky and were saddened by the stars.”— Joseph Heller, amazon.com
“It is not humiliating to be unhappy. Physical suffering is sometimes humiliating, but the suffering of being cannot be, it is life.”— Albert Camus, amazon.com
“When she is happy, she can’t stop talking, when she is sad she doesn’t say a word.”— Ann Brashares, amazon.com
“There must be something strangely sacred in salt. It is in our tears and in the sea.”— Khalil Gibran, amazon.com
“My heart aches completely, every hour, every day, and only when I’m with you does the pain go away.”— Ewan McGregor, amazon.com
“This is for the times you went through hell so someone else wouldn’t have to.”— Andrea Gibson, amazon.com
“The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.”— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.com
“My life happens to, on occasion, suck beyond the telling of it. Sometimes more than I can handle. And it’s not just mine. Every single person down there is ignoring your pain because they’re too busy with their own. The beautiful ones. The popular ones. The guys that pick on you. Everyone. If you co…”— Joss Whedon, tvtropes.org
“I have learned that when sadness comes to visit me, all I can do is say ‘I see you.’ I spend some time with it, get up, and say goodbye. I don’t push it away, I own it. And because I own it, I let it go.”— Carolina Zacaria, goodreads.com
“It is easier to tell a story of how people wound one another than of what binds them together.”— Anne Carson, amazon.com
“Loneliness as a situation can be corrected, but as a state of mind it is an incurable illness.”— Vladimir Nabokov, amazon.com
“It’s a sad world, though, when you can’t get love right even after trying it as many times as I have.”— Louise Erdrich, 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
“Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?”— John Keats, amazon.com
“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up.”— Louise Erdrich, amazon.com
“It was all right to be sad. It was all right to lament. It was all right to feel anger. But not all right to run away.”— Miyuki Miyabe, amazon.com