“Sometimes you find yourself in the middle of nowhere, and sometimes, in the middle of nowhere, you find yourself.”— Quotemadness, quotemadness.com
“The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much.”— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com
“If you begin to give away parts of yourself, eventually you’ll give it all. And once you’ve lost yourself, haven’t you lost everything?”— Julie Garwood, amazon.com
“We like companionship, see, but we can’t stand to be around people for very long. So we go get ourselves lost, come back for a while, then get the hell out again.”— Jon Krakauer, amazon.com
“And maybe it is only by finding yourself that you can feel the true intensity of becoming close to another person.”— David Levithan, amazon.com
“I’ve searched the world for all the right words and my mouth is full of nothing.”— Tahereh Mafi, amazon.com
“Suddenly she realized that what she was regretting was not the lost past but the lost future, not what had not been but what would never be.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com
“It’s strange, isn’t it, how the idea of belonging to someone can sound so great? It can be comforting, the way it makes things decided. We like the thought of being held, until it’s too tight. We like that certainty, until it means there’s no way out. And we like being his, until we realize we’re no…”— Deb Caletti, amazon.com
“If you asked me now who I am, the only answer I could give with any certainty would be my name. For the rest: my loves, my hates, down even to my deepest desires, I can no longer say whether these emotions are my own, or stolen from those I once so desperately wished to be.”— Evelyn Waugh, amazon.com
“But knowing what I don’t want to do doesn’t help me figure out what I do want to do. I could do just about anything if somebody made me. But I don’t have an image of the one thing I really want to do. That’s my problem now. I can’t find the image.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“Feelings are like blankets, covering you up so you can’t see clearly, or like mazes you can too easily get lost inside. I am terrified of getting lost.”— Corey Ann Haydu, amazon.com
“Why must we pass from the world like locusts, and our life is like a vapor?”— Ezra, quod.lib.umich.edu
“I think you can love a person too much. You put someone up on a pedestal, and all of a sudden, from that perspective, you notice what’s wrong - a hair out of place, a run in a stocking, a broken bone. You spend all your time and energy making it right, and all the while, you are falling apart yourse…”— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com
“It always hurts more to have and lose than to not have in the first place.”— Khaled Hosseini, amazon.com
“...you can know the whole world and still feel lost in it. So many people are in pain-no matter how smart or accomplished-they cry, they yearn, they hurt... we all want the same things: comfort, love, and a peaceful heart.”— Mitch Albom, amazon.com
“I am homesick for a place I am not sure even exists. One where my heart is full. My body loved. And my soul understood.”— Unknown (via QUOTEMADNESS), quotemadness.com