“Without access to true chaos, we'll never have true peace. Unless everything can get worse, it won't get any better.”— Chuck Palahniuk, amazon.com
“You know how they say you only hurt the ones you love? Well, it works both ways.”— Chuck Palahniuk, amazon.com
“The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.”— Chuck Palahniuk, amazon.com
“It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness.”— Chuck Palahniuk, amazon.com
“There is a kind of crying I hope you have not experienced, and it is not just crying about something terrible that has happened, but a crying for all of the terrible things that have happened, not just to you but to everyone you know and to everyone you don’t know and even the people you don’t want…”— Lemony Snicket, amazon.com
“Happiness is an acquired taste, like coconut cordial or ceviche, to which you can eventually become accustomed, but despair is something surprising each time you encounter it.”— Lemony Snicket, amazon.com
“If you have ever lost a loved one, then you know exactly how it feels. And if you have not, then you cannot possibly imagine it.”— Lemony Snicket, amazon.com
“Oftentimes. when people are miserable, they will want to make other people miserable, too. But it never helps.”— Lemony Snicket, amazon.com
“When someone is crying, of course, the noble thing to do is to comfort them. But if someone is trying to hide their tears, it may also be noble to pretend you do not notice them.”— Lemony Snicket, amazon.com
“You can either experience pain willingly or unwillingly, and pain that’s embraced by choice is much easier to tolerate than pain that must be endured by consequence.”— Derek Doepker, amazon.com
“You're so outraged and surprised this shitty thing happened to you that there's a piece of you that isn't yet convinced it did. You're looking for the explanation, the loophole, the bright twist in the dark tale that reverses its course. Anyone would be. It's the reason I've had to narrate my own st…”— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.com
“Nobody will protect you from your suffering. You can't cry it away or eat it away or starve it away or walk it away or punch it away or even therapy it away. It's just there, and you have to survive it. You have to endure it. You have to live through it and love it and move on and be better for it a…”— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.com
“Compassion hurts. When you feel connected to everything, you also feel responsible for everything. And you cannot turn away. Your destiny is bound with the destinies of others. You must either learn to carry the Universe or be crushed by it. You must grow strong enough to love the world, yet empty e…”— Andrew Boyd, amazon.com
“We need enormous pockets, pockets big enough for our families and our friends, and even the people who aren't on our lists, people we've never met but still want to protect. We need pockets for boroughs and for cities, a pocket that could hold the universe.”— Jonathan Safran Foer, amazon.com
“Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let the pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place.”— Iain Thomas, iwrotethisforyou.me
“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart.”— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, amazon.com
“Your tears come easy, when you're young, and beginning the world. Your tears come easy, when you're old, and leaving it.”— Wilkie Collins, amazon.com
“The broken heart. You think you will die, but you just keep living, day after day after terrible day.”— Charles Dickens, amazon.com