• But we're all scared to say the things worth saying.
• What a day to be alive.
• Too many people undervalue what they are, and overvalue what they're not.
• America when will we end the human war?
• Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.
• Life is a funny thing. Twists and turns and in the bad times it just breaks and burns, but as you get older you just live and learn to shrug your shoulders and be the bigger man.
• I put my hands on him, run my fingers over his eyelids, find his lips, meet them with mine. I kiss the plane of his cheekbones. The salt of his tears tastes like the sea and I don’t see the shore. -Ally Condie
• I feel that books, just like people, have a destiny. Some invite sorrow, others joy, some both. -Elie Wiesel
• All we needed were some good friends and a song to sing along.
• You see things. You keep quiet about them. And you understand. -Perks
• It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them. -Agatha Christie
• Music fills the infinite between two souls.
• Everything was okay because it didn't matter. But deep down it's not okay because it really did matter.
• I live in a town that everyone claims to hate, yet they never seem to leave.
• Unless it's mad, passionate, extraordinary love, it's a waste of your time. There are too many mediocre things in life. Love shouldn't be one of them. -Dreams for an Insomniac
• I keep thinking I want to be the woman everyone loves. What a pathetic thing to crave.
• The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us. -Quentin Crisp
• We spend too much time with our heads down and hearts closed; and never get a chance to look up from the ground and see that the sun is shining and tomorrow is another day.
• Life was mostly made up of things you couldn’t control, full of surprises, and they weren’t always good. Life wasn’t what you made it. You were what life made you. -Sara Zarr
• Everything is only just inside your head. Stop worrying.
• People think in narratives - in beginnings, middles and ends. The danger when you edit something too severely is that it no longer makes sense; worse still, it leaves people with the disquieting impression that something is being hidden. -Errol Morris
• Soulmates never die.
• It's funny how you can tell someone likes someone else, but you can't tell when someone likes you.
• Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying. -Arthur C. Clarke
• Don’t you think it’s better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, than to be just okay for your whole life? -Audret Niffenegger
• Damn it. Why didn't anyone ever tell me how much it hurts to love someone.
• Everything looks perfect from far away.
• I put my heart and my soul into my work and have lost my mind in the process. -Vincent van Gogh
• You can’t just make me different and then leave. -John Green
• What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
• We need music the most when we're feeling things really intensely, and the most intense times are when we're falling in love or losing it. -Taylor Swift
• We live in the jar and think the lid's the sky.
• 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
• No matter how close to death you are, always remember you are still alive.
• It's a lot easier to say you're mad than to admit you're hurt.
• Somewhere along the way; we changed.
• Took the fireworks and the vanity, the circuit board, and the city streets, shooting star, swaying palm tree, laid it at the arbiter's feet. -Bright Eyes
• “Perhaps, after all, romance did not come into one’s life with pomp and blare, like a gay knight riding down; perhaps it crept to one’s side like an old friend through quiet ways; perhaps it revealed itself in seeming prose, until some sudden shaft of illumination flung athwart its pages betrayed the rhythm and the music; perhaps … perhaps … love unfolded naturally out of a beautiful friendship, as a golden-hearted rose slipping from its green sheath. -L. M. Montgomery
• There were stars, they burned my eyes.
• You are listening to silence.
• Writers aren't exactly people...They're a whole bunch of people trying to be one person. -F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Fond but not in love.
• I know you have a little life in you yet, I know you have a lot of strength left. I should be crying but I just can’t let it show. I should be hoping but I can’t stop thinking of all the things I should’ve said that I never said. All the things we should’ve done that we never did. All the things I should’ve given but I didn’t. Oh, my darling make it go. Make it go away. -Greg Laswell
• I tried to realise that I shall die myself one day; but I couldn’t believe it. -Dodie Smith
• Eventually something you love is going to be taken away. And then you will fall to the floor crying. And then, however much later, it is finally happening to you: you’re falling to the floor crying thinking, “I am falling to the floor crying,” but there’s an element of the ridiculous to it — you knew it would happen and, even worse, while you’re on the floor crying you look at the place where the wall meets the floor and you realize you didn’t paint it very well. -Richard Siken
• When I am silent, I fall into the place where everything is music. -Rumi
• I miss you most of all, my darling, when autumn leaves start to fall.
• But lonely is a freedom that breathes easy and weightless and lonely is healing if you make it. -Andrea Dorfman
• People fall so in love with their pain, they can’t leave it behind. The same as the stories they tell. We trap ourselves. -Chuck Palahniuk
• She ran away in her sleep and dreamed of paradise.
• We all fear death and question our place in the universe. The artist’s job is not to succumb to despair but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existence. -Midnight in Paris
• From young, we were taught how to love but not how to stop.
• I've been let down by the people that I love but I will not let down the people who love me.
• I’ve tried to get you out of my head but I can’t seem to get you out of my flesh. -Jeanette Winterson
• I'd rather write about this world than live in it and I'd rather play music all day and read and wander around in bookstores and watch humans but not be one of them.
• I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don’t know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness. In reality those who satisfy me are those who simply allow me to live with my idea of them. -Anaïs Nin
• Your oldest fears are the worst ones.
• You said there was more out there.
• I like who I am becoming, a lot.
• How strange it is to be anything at all.
• And I hide behind these books I read while scribbling my poetry, like art could save a wretch like me with some ideal ideology that no one could hope to achieve. And I’m never real, it’s just a sketch of me. And everything I’ve made is trite and cheap and a waste of paint, of tape, of time. -Conor Oberst
• Monsters don't sleep under your bed, they sleep inside your head.
• I am a humanist, which means, in part, that I have tried to behave decently without expectations of rewards or punishments after I am dead. -Kurt Vonnegut
• The enemy is fear. We think it’s hate, but it’s fear. -Ghandi
• Because things change. And friends leave. And life doesn't stop for anybody. -Perks
• I either find myself thinking way too much or not at all.
• We all carry these things inside that no one else can see. They hold us down like anchors, they drown us at the sea.
• People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.
• Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don’t mean to do harm; but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves. -T.S. Eliot
• Feathers filled the small room. Our laughter kept the feathers in the air. I thought about birds. Could they fly is there wasn’t someone, somewhere, laughing? -Jonathan Safran Foer
• You’ll meet her, she’s very pretty, even though sometimes she’s sad for many days at a time. You’ll see, when she smiles, you’ll love her.
• I want to live in the deepest parts of your mind where all the bad thoughts are so I can stop them like a dreamcatcher before you feel it.
• I think you could fall in love with anyone if you saw the parts of them no one else gets to see. Like if you followed them around invisibly for a day and saw them crying in their bed at night or singing in the shower or humming quietly to themselves as they make a sandwich or even just walking along the street. And even if they were really weird and had no friends at school, I think, after seeing them at their most vulnerable, you wouldn’t be able to help falling in love with them.
• I know that the night is not the same as the day: that all things are different, that the things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist, and the night can be a dreadful time for lonely people once their loneliness has started. -Ernest Hemingway
• Lulled by stupefying illusions, the world is asleep in the cradle of infancy, dreaming away the hours.
• You're the one who knows me best. Tell me why I'm depressed.
• I trace my fingers in patterns along your skin and if ever there was a moment to be able to freeze time god, this would be it, this would be it.
• But I don’t want comfort. I want poetry. I want danger. I want freedom. I want goodness. I want sin. -Aldous Huxley
• I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched. -Edgar Allan Poe
• Why does it feel so different at night? Why is it so exciting to be awake when everybody else is asleep? Late—it is very late! And yet every moment you feel more and more wakeful, as though you were slowly, almost with every breath, waking up into a new, wonderful, far more thrilling and exciting world than the day light one. -Katherine Mansfield
• Everyone should remember being born. It doesn’t seem fair that we only remember dying. -Lauren DeStefano
• Count every beautiful thing.
• I wish more people cared about earth as much as they cared about who they believed created it.
• Life is beautiful. Really, it is. Full of beauty and illusions.
• Blue are the feelings that live inside me.
• I'm just desperately screaming for somebody to notice me.
• It’s a wonder I’m even alive. Sometimes I think that. I think that I can’t believe I haven’t killed myself. But there’s something in me that just keeps going on. I think it has something to do with tomorrow, that there is always one, and that everything can change when it comes. -Augusten Burroughs
• Let your past make you better not bitter.
• I heard you say you loved me in your sleep. What I'd give to be in that dream.
• You cannot save people. You can only love them. -Anais Nin
• Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know. -John Keats
• All I have is all of me and it's all that I can give.
• There are some who say that you should forgive everyone, even the people who have disappointed you immeasurably. There are others who say you should not forgive anyone, and should stomp off in a huff no matter how many times they apologize. Of these two philosophies, the second one is of course much more fun, but it can also grow exhausting to stomp off in a huff every time someone has disappointed you, as everyone disappoints everyone eventually, and one can’t stomp off in a huff every minute of the day. -Lemony Snicket
• Everyone's so full of shit, born and raised by hypocrites.
• Now I know there is beauty in darkness.
• Inhale love, exhale hate.
• No recovery is full. At some point though, a wound will become a scar and then mysteriously that scar will become another tack on a map reminding you of where you’ve been. -Andrew McMahon
• Just because you’ve made mistakes doesn’t mean your mistakes get to make you. Take no notice of your inner critic, forgive yourself, and move on. -Robert Tew
• I am old when it is fashionable to be 
young; I cry when it is fashionable to laugh. 
I hated you when it would have taken less courage
 to love. -Charles Bukowski
• There is always a divergence between our perception and what actually exists. -George Soros
• It's about 4:37am right now and I woke up with a pain in my chest and I can't tell if it's heart burn or the emptiness coming back. But it's late and I have to be up soon. Wish you were here, I'm sorry things changed.
• You don't believe in anything.
• I fell in love with books. Some people find beauty in music, some in painting, some in landscape, but I find it in words. By beauty, I mean the feeling you have suddenly glimpsed another world, or looked into a portal that reveals a kind of magic or romance out of which the world has been constructed, a feeling there is something more than the mundane, and a reason for our plodding. -Donald Miller
• I think a lot, but I don't say much. -Anne Frank
• There was one of his lonelinesses coming, one of those times when he walked the streets or sat, aimless and depressed, biting a pencil at his desk. It was a self-absorption with no comfort, a demand for expression with no outlet, a sense of time rushing by, ceaselessly and wastefully - assuaged only by that conviction that there was nothing to waste, because all efforts and attainments were equally valueless. -F. Scott Fitzgerald
• We are an example of why not to fall in love.
• I want to live a life worth writing about.
• With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy? -Oscar Wilde
• What we think, we become.
• Alice: How long is forever?

White Rabbit: Sometimes, just one second. -Lewis Carrol

• Your name burns hot when I write it, feels heavy when I say it out loud.
• I, a universe of atoms, an atom in the universe. -Richard P. Feynman
• I want to rip off your logic and make passionate sense to you. I want to ride in the swing of your hips. My fingers will dig in you like quotation marks, blazing your limbs into parts of speech. -Jeffrey McDaniel
• Hang loose.
• To conquer your flaws, you must first accept them.
• We will never be careful the way we are.
• I want deeper connections with the people around me. I need to reach out more. Because not everyone leaves. Sometimes if you reach out, the person you’re trying to reach will be right there waiting. -Susane Colasanti
• Yeah I'll get over it eventually and maybe even really soon but that doesn't make it hurt any less right now.
• “I like to disappear personally. I like to kind of slink through the streets and hope that nobody sees me. -Michelle Williams
• Never love anybody who treats you like you’re ordinary. -Oscar Wilde
• Stop overthinking and do something.
• You know that point in your life when you realize the house you grew up in isn’t your home anymore? All of a sudden, even though you have some place where you put your shit, the idea of home is gone. You’ll see one day when you move out. It just sort of happens one day and it’s gone. You feel like you can never get it back. It’s like—you feel homesick for a place that doesn’t even exist. Maybe it’s this rite of passage, you know. You won’t ever have this feeling again until you create a new idea of home for yourself, you know, for your kids, for the family you start. It’s like a cycle or something. I don’t know, but I miss the idea of it. You know? Maybe that’s all family really is. A group of people that miss the same imaginary place. -Garden State
• All my life my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name
• The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself. -Ernest Hemingway
• The trouble is, you think you have time. -Buddha
• You spend so much time expecting the worst, that you don’t even notice the moments when people are loving you.
• All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family. I cannot detach myself from the wickedest soul. -Ghandi