“Though sympathy alone can't alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.”— Bram Stoker, amazon.com
“It’s a life not without pain and competition and suffering, but it can be a life of dignity and mutual respect.”— David Duchovny, amazon.com
“It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living d…”— Eleanor Roosevelt, positivityblog.com
“He nods, as if to acknowledge that endings are almost always a little sad, even when there is something to look forward to on the other side.”— Emily Giffin, amazon.com
“When a person tells you that you hurt them, you don't get to decide that you didn't.”— Louis CK, huffingtonpost.com
“The good news is, this wouldn't be the first time someone's crawled,tooth and nail, out of hell.”— Iain Thomas, amazon.ca
“Every time it rains it stops raining. Every time you hurt, you heal. After darkness, there is always light and you get reminded of this every morning but you still choose to believe that the night will last forever. Nothing lasts forever. Not the good or the bad.”— Iain Thomas, amazon.ca
“How can something be there and then just not be there? How do we forgive ourselves for all the things we did not become?”— Doc Luben, doclubenpoetry.tumblr.com
“Getting over it doesn't mean forgetting it, it just means reducing the pain to a tolerable level, a level that doesn't destroy you.”— Kevin Brooks, amazon.com
“Any fool can love somebody who’s perfect, somebody who does everything right. But that doesn’t stretch your soul. Your soul only gets stretched when you can still love somebody after they’ve hurt you.”— Susan Elizabeth Phillips, amazon.com
“I remember awakening one morning and finding everything smeared with the color of forgotten love.”— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com
“Sometimes you want things to change so badly, you can’t even stand to be in the same room with the way things actually are.”— Ali Benjamin, amazon.com
“Something else is hurting you - that’s why you need pot or whiskey, or whips and rubber suits, or screaming music turned so fucking loud you can’t think.”— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com
“It was good for a while, being empty. I didn’t hurt anymore. But as time went on, it was like I could hear myself from far away, begging for permission to come back.”— Myra McEntire, amazon.com
“Just for the record, she still loves you. She wouldn’t bother to torture you if she didn’t.”— Chuck Palahniuk, amazon.com
“Yet writing a poem about something painful, she has discovered, can be her way of digesting it. 'One of the things I’ve learned is, if we try and put sadness off, it just waits. And in my experience, running away from sadness doesn’t do anybody any good.'”— Frieda Hughes, theguardian.com
“At times I hardly can believe in you. Except this ache, this longing in my gut, this emptiness which theorizes you because if there is emptiness this deep,there must be fullness somewhere.”— Erica Jong, amazon.com