“I could tell you it’s the heart, but what is really killing him is loneliness. Memories are worse than bullets.”— Carlos Ruiz Zafon, amazon.com
“If they took back the pain they caused, you'd lose the strength you gained.”— Rachel Wolchin, twitter.com
“I surrender myself to everything. I love, I feel pain, I struggle. The world seems to me wider than the mind, my heart a dark and almighty mystery.”— Nikos Kazantzakis, amazon.com
“Solitude has soft, silky hands, but with strong fingers it grasps the heart and makes it ache with sorrow.”— Khalil Gibran, amazon.com
“Your only problem, perhaps, is that you scream without letting yourself cry.”— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.com
“I’m sorry your heart was broken. I’m sorry you thought they were better than they actually were. I’m sorry that they didn’t love you as much as you thought they did. I’m sorry you wake up at night, unable to breath, drowning in a pool of your own tears. I’m sorry you feel worthless and sad . I’m sor…”— @xiat-fever (via XIAT-FEVER), xiat-fever.tumblr.com
“Running away from fear is fear; fighting pain is pain; trying to be brave is being scared. If the mind is in pain, the mind is pain. The thinker has no other form than his thought.”— Alan Watts, amazon.com
“You were hurt badly, and those scars will be with you forever. I feel sorry for you, I really do. But think of it like this: it’s not too late to recover. You’re young, you’re tough. You’re adaptable. You can patch up your wounds, lift up your head and move on.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“People fall so in love with their pain, they can’t leave it behind. The same as the stories they tell. We trap ourselves.”— Chuck Palahniuk, amazon.com
“How do you go on when, in your heart, you begin to understand there is no going back? There are some things that time cannot mend. Some hurts that go too deep.”— J.R.R Tolkien, amazon.com
“I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.”— James Baldwin, amazon.com
“Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear.”— Charlotte Brontë, amazon.com
“When you lose someone and it still hurts, that’s when you know the love was real.”— Jenny Han, amazon.com
“It is in dialogue with pain that many beautiful things acquire their value.”— Alain de Botton, amazon.com
“Unrequited love may be painful, but it is safely painful, because it does not involve inflicting damage on anyone but oneself, a private pain that is as bitter-sweet as it is self-induced. But as soon as love is reciprocated, one must be prepared to give up the passivity of simply being hurt to take…”— Alain de Botton, amazon.com