“Intense, unexpected suffering passes more quickly than suffering that is apparently bearable; the latter goes on for years and, without our noticing, eats away at our souls, until, one day, we are no longer able to free ourselves and it stays with us for the rest of our lives.”— Paulo Coelho, twitter.com
“I was struggling to pee the other day And I started trying to encourage my dick "come on man, you can do it!" My wife yells at me through the bathroom door at me "Who are you talking to?" I replied " Don't worry, it's nobody you'd remember"”— Treyness, reddit.com
“Never fear the darkness... The strongest trees are rooted in the dark places of the earth. Darkness will be your cloak, your shield, your mother's milk. Darkness will make you strong.”— George R. R. Martin, amazon.com
“It is a strange thing to nourish what could kill you in the hopes it does not kill you.”— Clementine Von Radics, amazon.com
“I’m sorry. I was supposed to be a safe harbour for you. But I have storms of my own, too.”— Beau Taplin, afadthatlastsforever.tumblr.com
“The world keeps moving without him? Your brain gets it but your heart is astonished.”— Rosa Montero, wnq-writers.com
“I have tasted deadlier poisons and survived, what makes you think I do not possess an antidote to your brand of poison too?”— Nikita Gill, meanwhilepoetry.tumblr.com
“I don’t think I could love you so much if you had nothing to complain of and nothing to regret. I don’t like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and of little value. Life hasn’t revealed its beauty to them.”— Boris Pasternak, amazon.com
“I mean you have been disappointed in love, but don’t you know how many things there are to be disappointed in besides love? You are lucky to be still disappointed in love. Later it may be even more terrible.”— Saul Bellow, 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
“You don’t always win your battles, but it’s good to know you fought.”— Lauren Bacall, harpersbazaar.com.au
“It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.”— Aristotle Onassis, goodreads.com
“You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.”— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, amazon.com
“Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don’t be afraid. I am with you.”— Frederick Buechner, spiritualityandpractice.com
“Don’t plant your bad days. They grow into weeks. The weeks grow into months. Before you know it, you got yourself a bad year. Take it from me - choke those little bad days. Choke ‘em down to nothing.”— Tom Waits, goodreads.com
“Being a successful person is not necessarily defined by what you have achieved, but by what you have overcome.”— Fannie Flagg, amazon.com
“The worst thing in the world can happen, but the next day the sun will come up. And you will eat your toast. And you will drink your tea.”— Rhian Ellis, amazon.com