“What you must understand about me is that I’m a deeply unhappy person.”
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“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.”
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“You believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself.”
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“There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can
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“The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.”
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“We’re all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.”
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“Love is so short, forgetting is so long.”
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“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
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Pray for Paris
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“You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.”
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“Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering.”
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“A life of noticing someone who doesn’t notice you is a life of pain, heartbreak, and suffering.”
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“The heart was made to be broken.”
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Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, ‘It might have been’.
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“She was a girl who knew how to be happy even when she was sad. And that’s important — you know.”
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“This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.”
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“And I’m suppose to sit by while you date boys and fall in love with someone else, get married…?” His voice tightened. “And meanwhile, I’ll die a little bit more every day, watching.”
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“How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.”
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“Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.”
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“Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it’s not because they enjoy solitude. It’s because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.”