“Sure, I’m sad, but I’m not looking to soothe that sadness by replacing it with a new relationship. Women are allowed to be sad, and they’re allowed to be single, and they don’t need to hear that one day a man is going to make it all go away by telling her she is good enough again. She’s good enough…”— Charlotte Green, thoughtcatalog.com
“I have a very childlike rage, and a very childlike loneliness.”— Richey Edwards, articles.richeyedwards.net
“I’m scared you will realize I’m just bones and questions and leave me for something solid.”— Clementine Von Radics, clementinevonradicspoems.tumblr.com
“Lonely people tend, rather, to be lonely because they decline to bear the psychic costs of being around other humans. They are allergic to people. People affect them too strongly.”— David Foster Wallace, amazon.com
“Sometimes I don’t even know if I’m extremely happy or extremely sad. It happens a lot…”— Antonia Michaelis, amazon.com
“Somewhere, there is a version of me that isn’t neck- deep in her invented filth”— Franny Choi, theoffingmag.com
“The saddest thing that can happen to a person is to find out their memories are lies.”— Juan Gabriel Vásquez, amazon.com
“I’m a little wounded, but I am not slain; I will lay me down to bleed a while. Then I’ll rise and fight again.”— John Dryden, goodreads.com
“I hope you find someone who knows how to love you when you are sad.”— Nikita Gill, meanwhilepoetry.tumblr.com
“The saddest truth is realising you have fallen madly in love with what can never be.”— Michael Faudet, twitter.com
“So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I’m still trying to figure out how that could be.”— Stephen Chbosky, amazon.com
“I pretend I’m not hurt, I walk about the world like I’m having fun.”— Lana Del Rey, open.spotify.com