“Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.”

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.”

Jim Rohn

“Smile, even if it's a sad smile, because sadder than a sad smile is the sadness of not knowing how to smile.”

“Anger is just a cowardly extension of sadness. It's a lot easier to be angry at someone than it is to tell them you're hurt.”

Tom Gates

“God whispers in our pleasures, but shouts in our pain.”

C.S. Lewis

“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...You give them a piece of you. They didn't ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like 'maybe we should be just friends' turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain."

Neil Gaiman

“Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.”

“The heart was made to be broken”

Oscar Wilde

“You don't need strength to let go of something. What you really need is understanding.”

Guy Finley


“Sad are only those who understand”

Old Arab saying