“I knew that what was left of me would always love you, but never in quite the same way.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com
“It was the eyes. The secret of love was in the eyes. The way one person looked at another, the way eyes communicated and spoke when the lips never moved.”— V.C Andrews, amazon.com
“Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say My tooth is aching than to say My heart is broken.”— C. S. Lewis, amazon.com
“Sometimes, you do things and you do them not because you’re thinking but because you’re feeling. Because you’re feeling too much. And you can’t always control the things you do when you’re feeling too much.”— Benjamin Alire Sáenz, amazon.com
“I don't want people to matter to me too much. Sometimes it hurts too much to think about them. Ones you love who don't love you, ones who hate you, ones who you think about but never get to be with. I like people but when I get too close, it fucks me up.”— Henry Rollins, amazon.com
“Nobody looks like what they really are on the inside. You don’t. I don’t. People are much more complicated than that.”— Neil Gaiman, amazon.com
“Music resonates in so many parts of the brain that we can’t conceive of it being an isolated thing. It’s whom you were with, how old you were, and what was happening that day.”— David Byrne, amazon.com
“But Heaven never sends unmixed grief, and for Professor Liedenbrock there was a satisfaction in store proportioned to his desperate anxieties.”— Jules Verne, amazon.com
“The loneliness you feel with another person, the wrong person, is the loneliest of all.”— Deb Caletti, amazon.com
“What I see and what I feel are best when you are both.”— William Chapman, williamchapmanwritings.tumblr.com
“Something kinda sad about the way that things have come to be. Desensitized to everything. What became of subtlety? How can this mean anything to me..If I really don't feel anything at all?”— Maynard James Keenan, youtube.com
“I never knew before, what such a love as you have made me feel, was; I did not believe in it; my Fancy was afraid of it, lest it should burn me up. But if you will fully love me, though there may be some fire, 'twill not be more than we can bear when moistened and bedewed with pleasures.”— John Keats, amazon.com
“Do you remember the way the girls would call out "love you!" conveniently leaving out the "I" as if they didn't want to commit to their own declarations. I agree that the "I" is a pretty heavy concept and hope you won't get uncomfortable if I should go into some deeper stuff here.”— David Berman, poemhunter.com
“Nobody can help you. That’s what love’s all about… You’re the one having these wonderful feelings, but you have to go it alone as you wander through the dark. Your mind and body have to bear it all. All by yourself.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com