3,622 Quotes About Sadness

I close my eyes and press my face into his shirt and howl against him, liquid agony pouring from me. He smooths my hair from my face and continues to murmur, but he never shushes me, never tells me to stop. Never tells me it'll be all right. He knows life too well to believe such lies.

A cell.
An accident.
A person who would’ve been miserable anyway. An appointment.
A religious order.
An expense.
A political debate.
Anything but a soul. “Why?”
I don’t care who fights for my life.
I care that they do. They aren’t sure
When my life starts,
But they tell me when it ends.
My body, my rights.
Somebody, where’s mine?
I wasn’t going to come out
As a different thing.
So why am I treated
Like a different thing?
They knew what I’d be,

Fuck, he deserved kindness, he deserved love and he deserved better than her.

We never regret the love we give,We regret giving it to the wrong people …

I am sorry that I am alive to feel this misery and horror.

Did you ever think about how many things we do that we spend far more energy trying to forget than we expended by doing them in the first place? And as terribly obvious as it might seem, maybe the primary place we should expend our energy is taking the time to figure out how we want to expend it before we do.

When I pour out my hurt and sadness into the typewriter do I then begin to realize that I have created poetry!

The nostalgia of a moment's love can be an illusionary precipice from which we fall from truth; in heartbreak, what we escape to in the past is what tortures us in the present.

People rarely ventured outside the realm of their own hurts. They believed their own suffering was obvious to all, but might as well have been wearing blinders for all that they noticed anyone else's.