“It is a blessing as well as a burden to love so much that you can hurt so badly when love is gone.”— Deborah Harkness, amazon.com
“The difference between happiness and unhappiness, both are necessary and useful. Even in the face of an illness that’s unsettling or worrying, this belief is absolutely unshaken.”— Vincent Van Gogh, amazon.com
“Have you ever heard that love is a metaphor? A metaphor for the taste of the bottom.”— Being As An Ocean, open.spotify.com
“There is no success without the prospect of failure, no adventure without possible mishap.”— Edmund S. Phelps, firstthings.com
“I’ve climbed all the highest mountains. I’ve done every drug in reach. I’ve made love to pretty women while the sun set on the beach. But no good time goes unmourned. No good heart goes untorn. Good or bad, it’s all sad. And my acceptance is born.”— Ima Robot, open.spotify.com
“Contrast is important in life. We understand what light is because we can compare it with what we know is dark. Sweet is made sweeter after we eat something bitter. It’s the very same with sadness.”— Tarryn Fisher, amazon.com
“Sadness is a normal human condition, no different from happiness. You wouldn’t think of happiness as an illness. Sadness and happiness need each other.”— Iain Reid, amazon.com