“Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.”
-Dr. Seuss
“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
-Friedrich Nietzsche
“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
“When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it–always.”
-Mahatma Gandhi
“Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.”
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.”
-Jonathan Safran Foer
“I didn’t want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that’s really sad. It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare you’re so relieved. I woke up into a nightmare.”
-Ned Vizzini
“Why do people have to be this lonely? What’s the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?”
-Haruki Murakami
“What you must understand about me is that I’m a deeply unhappy person.”
-John Green
“You can’t be happy unless you’re unhappy sometimes”.”
-Lauren Oliver
“The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected.”
“They say when you are missing someone that they are probably feeling the same, but I don’t think it’s possible for you to miss me as much as I’m missing you right now”
-Edna St. Vincent Millay
“Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.”
-Clive Barker
“Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day.”
-Markus Zusak
“He does something to me, that boy. Every time. It’s his only detriment. He steps on my heart. He makes me cry.”
-Markus Zusak
“Tonight I can write the saddest lines
I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.”
-Pablo Neruda
“Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart.”
-Jos N. Harris
“I have learned now that while those who speak about one’s miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.”
-C.S. Lewis
“The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.”
-Nikolai Gogol
“Tears are words that need to be written.”
-Paulo Coelho
“Don’t cry over someone who wouldn’t cry over you.”
-Lauren Conrad
“there are two types of people in the world: those who prefer to be sad among others, and those who prefer to be sad alone.”
-Nicole Krauss
“Why do beautiful songs make you sad?’ ‘Because they aren’t true.’ ‘Never?’ ‘Nothing is beautiful and true.”
-Jonathan Safran Foer
“I am both happy and sad at the same time, and I’m still trying to figure out how that could be.”
-Stephen Chbosky
“She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous strands, appreciating its subtle nuances. She was a prism through which sadness could be divided into its infinite spectrum.”
-Jonathan Safran Foer
“I can’t eat and I can’t sleep. I’m not doing well in terms of being a functional human, you know?”
-Ned Vizzini
“The unhappiest people in this world, are those who care the most about what other people think.”
-C. JoyBell C.
“People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent videos; we are scared that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands – literally thousands – of songs about broken hearts and rejection and pain and misery and loss.”
-Nick Hornby
“I’m lonely. And I’m lonely in some horribly deep way and for a flash of an instant, I can see just how lonely, and how deep this feeling runs. And it scares the shit out of me to be this lonely because it seems catastrophic.”
-Augusten Burroughs
“I’ll fight it. I’ll fight it for you. Don’t you worry about me, Hazel Grace. I’m okay. I’ll find a way to hang around and annoy you for a long time.”
-John Green
