• How we need another soul to cling to, another body to keep us warm. To rest and trust; to give your soul in confidence: I need this, I need someone to pour myself into. -Sylvia Plath
• It isn’t normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement. -Abraham Maslow
• Sometimes words are not enough. -Lemony Snicket
• Where to, miss? To the stars. -Titanic
• “I figure life’s a gift and I don’t intend on wasting it. You don’t know what hand you’re gonna get dealt next. You learn to take life as it comes at you… to make each day count. -Titanic
• Replace fear of the unknown with curiosity.
• Reality hurts you because you're sensitive.
• Life is as grand as you make it.
• Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love. -Rainer Maria Rilke
• I don’t believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive. -Joseph Campbell
• To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
• We laugh and laugh, and nothing can ever be sad, no one can be lost, or dead, or far away: right now we are here, and nothing can mar our perfection, or steal the joy of this perfect moment. -Audrey Niffenegger
• The scariest thing about distance is that you don't know whether they'll miss you or forget you. -Nicholas Sparks
• I must belong somewhere.
• Some infinities are bigger than other infinities. -John Green
• Some people are so poor, all they have is money.
• She had this desire for things that weren't good for her.
• What we have here is a dreamer: Someone completely out of touch with reality. -Virgin Suicides
• Actually, I just woke up one day and decided I didn't want to feel like that anymore, or ever again. So I changed. Just like that.
• And my heart caves in when I look at you.
• We just want to give outcasts something they can relate to.
• "It is a curious thing, the death of a loved one. We all know that our time in this world is limited, and that eventually all of us will end up underneath some sheet, never to wake up. And yet it is always a surprise when it happens to someone we know. It is like walking up the stairs to your bedroom in the dark, and thinking there is one more stair than there is. Your foot falls down, through the air, and there is a sickly moment of dark surprise as you try and readjust the way you thought of things.” -Lemony Snicket
• Tell me what you think about when you can't fall asleep.
• When I got older I decided I wanted to be a real writer. I tried to write about real things. I wanted to describe the world, because to live in an undescribed world was too lonely.
• “They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever." -Oscar Wilde
• Don’t ever mistake my silence for ignorance, my calmness for acceptance, or my kindness for weakness.
• why explore the universe when we don't know ourselves?
• Each man creates his own god for himself, his own heaven, his own hell.
• I drifted between imagination and reality.
• Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
• "I love old things. They make me feel sad." "What’s good about sad?" "It’s happy for deep people."
• If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, “thank you,” that would suffice. -Eckhart von Hochheim
• People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
• To those who stay put, the world is but an imaginary place. But to the movers, the makers, and the shakers, the world is all around them, and endless invitation.
• Dying, she gives her last little smile to the world that has been so unkind.
• As soon as you stop wanting something, you get it. -Andy Warhol
• I love that moment. When you’re on a long car ride, or listening to music, or reading. And you completely zone out. You forget your troubles, and everyone around you. You’re focused on that one thing, and that one thing only. You’re content, and everything seems peaceful.
• I wanted to tell her everything, maybe if I’d been able to, we could have lived differently, maybe I’d be there with you now instead of here. Maybe… if I’d said, ‘I’m so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything,’ maybe that would have made the impossible possible. Maybe, but I couldn’t do it, I had buried too much too deeply inside me. And here I am, instead of there. -Jonathan Safran Foer
• After writing a story I was always empty and both sad and happy, as though I had made love. -Ernest Hemingway
• Good things come to those who wait, or those who are willing to get up and get shit done.
• I remember every word you said.
• A brain that never stops ticking, Sometimes an on off switch would sure come in handy, A mind that’s constantly cutting up and dissecting, Looking for answers, committing murders along the way.
• I'm in love with cities I've never been to and people I've never met.
• The past can be a terrible weight bound to you by an unbreakable chain. You can drag it with you, forever looking over your shoulder at what holds you back. Or you can let it go and move forward. It’s your choice. -Raymond E. Feist
• The scale of the universe suddenly opened up to me. It was a kind of religious experience. There was a magnificence to it, a grandeur, a scale which has never left me. Never ever left me. -Carl Sagan
• The fortune you seek is in another cookie.
• I paint flowers so they will not die. -Frida Kahlo
• You are my sweetest downfall, I loved you first.
• I will write about the possibility of us everywhere.
• I never changed, I just finally got tired of pretending to be happy.
• If you want to leave, you can. I'll remember you, though. I remember everyone that leaves.
• I can taste the moonlight on your skin.
• I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours. -Richard Dawkins
• I have in me dreams, systems, myths, ideals.
• Life is for deep kisses, strange adventures, midnight swims, and rambling conversations.
• It is not that the meaning cannot be explained. But there are certain meanings that are lost forever the moment they are explained in words. -Haruki Murakami
• It was never good, but somehow we survived. Eternal people, cannot be destroyed. We can only suffer.
• Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Do not be afraid.
• How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours. -Wayne W. Dyer
• This is probably going to get quoted in every publication just because I said it. And I’m not even saying anything. I’m not talking about my films, I’m not talking about my life, and I’m not talking about the world. And yet, the media will print it simply because I said it. And at this moment in time, I bet there is an artist around the corner of this hotel, on the street, with a mind far beyond ours, but we will never listen to him simply because he has not appeared in a movie. And that is what is fucked up about our culture. -Robert Downey Jr.
• Some religions call life a dream, or a dreaming, but what if it is a memory? What if this new world isn’t new at all but a memory of a new world? What if we really do keep making the same mistakes again and again, never remembering the lessons to learn but never forgetting either that it had been different, that there was a pristine place? Perhaps the universe is a memory of our mistakes. -Jeanette Winterson
• But the heart has its own memory...
• The paradox: vulnerability is the last thing I want you to see in me and the first thing I look for in you. -Brene Brown
• It's your faults that I'm interested in.
• 'You seem a little lost, Georgia…’ hearing him reminded me of how lost i wasn’t, and how disappointing that truly was. —Georgia Whots
• I can't tell you the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everyone. -Ed Sheeran
• Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. -Scott Adams
• Some people are old at 18 and some are young at 90... time is a concept that humans created. -Yoko Ono
• Behind the mask of ice that people wear, there beats a heart of fire. —Paulo Coelho
• Stupid, stupid - to be so careless with our time, to believe we had so much of it left. -Lauren Oliver
• Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet. —Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Oh precious distance, oh precious pain, you've given me a name.
• We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel… is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become. -Ursula K. Le Guin
• I just want a hand to hold and two ears that will listen and a mouth that will tell me stories.
• Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. -Søren Kierkegaard
• Sometimes you hit the point where you either change or self destruct.
• They made a statue of us, they'll name a city after us.
• All in all you're just another brick in the wall.
• It's strange times people choose to be kind.
• Sometimes words are not enough.
• It always shocked me when I realized that I wasn't the only person in the world who thought and felt such strange and awful things. -John Green
• And if you;re in love, then you are the lucky one. Because most of us are bitter over someone.
• You have your own mind, do as you please.
• I believe in humans.
• Anyone who understands how standing in a crowd of sweaty people, elbow to elbow, screaming along to the words embedded in your heart, can give you the most happiness ever needed. When you're shoved against a sea of bodies and you don't know what sweat actually belongs to you or your neighbor, you can barely breathe and in that moment, your favorite song starts playing and you forget about everything: all you're concerned with is the melody, rhythm, and beat of the song, all you care about is singing your heart out and knowing it's okay to love something maybe a little too much as long as it's real to you. -Gerard Way
• Come as you are, as you were, as I want you to be. -Nirvana
• You’re never too old to become younger. -Mae West
• We become silhouettes when our bodies finally go.
• The idea of the future both fascinates and frightens me at the same time.
• If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I'll bet they'd live a lot differently.
• Oh darling, let's be adventurers.
• You find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it. -A.A. Milne
• Can you imagine a nothingness so profound that millions of people over thousands of years felt the need to create an entire afterlife just so they wouldn't have to look it in the eye?
• I'm sick of staying up late, cause you're not here, I'm not there.
• Realize you can be happy this moment for no reason. Otherwise, you eternally depend on conditions for happiness. Unconscious of this moment, you remain a victim of circumstances. -Arthur D. Saftlas
• It should make a difference when someone loves you, shouldn't it? -Skins
• If you don't have dreams you have nightmares.
• The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me. -Ayn Rand
• How terribly sad it is that people are made in such a way that they get used to something as extraordinary as living. -Jostein Gaarder
• We are torn between a nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known. -Carson McCullers
• Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable. -Cesar Cruz
• The world does not distinguish one grief from another. It is the temptation to believe otherwise that keeps us in chains.
• There are so many kinds of beautiful.
• Your heart felt like home.
• I am very interested and fascinated by how everyone loves each other, but no one really likes each other. -Stephen Chbosky
• Be brave, love me back.
• The meaning of life is that it stops. -Franz Kafka
• In time all unanswered questions dissolve into stardust.
• Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray. -Rumi
• Don't forget the nights when it all felt right.
• Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering. -Paulo Coelho
• I wish I could say beautiful words but I can't.
• I don’t want just words. If that’s all you have for me, you’d better go. -F. Scott Fitzgerald
• I like it when somebody gets excited about something. It’s nice. -J.D. Salinger
• I have been homesick for you since we met. -The Avett Brothers
• At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough. You don’t need to photograph, paint, or even remember it. It is enough. -Toni Morrison
• Some hearts understand each other— even in silence. -Yasmin Mogahed
• Adventure may hurt you but monotony will kill you.
• If humans became extinct the world would carry on. There’s no vestige of a beginning, no prospect of an end. When we all disintegrate it will all happen again.
• What I hate is ignorance, smallness of imagination, the eye that sees no farther than its own lashes. All things are possible.. Who you are is limited only by who you think you are. -Egyptian Book of the Dead
• Just because you're paranoid don't mean they're not after you.
• You’re alive. That means you have infinite potential. You can do anything, make anything, dream anything. If you change the world, the world will change. -Neil Gaiman
• Summer may be over but this was no summer love.
• Never confuse education with intelligence.
• Cause at night the sun in retreat made the skyline look like crooked teeth in the mouth of a man who was devouring us both.
• For sale: Baby shoes. Never worn. -Hemingway
• Nothing would be the same if you did not exist.
• Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.
• We pretended to forget.
• We loved with a love that was more than love. -Edgar Allan Poe
• Monsters don't sleep under your bed, they sleep inside your head.
• There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. -Shakespeare
• Hell is other people.
• I wanna be stronger than oceans. I wanna lift mountains high. -Of Mice and Men
• Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die. -Buddha
• When we are young we read and believe the most fantastic things.
• I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness. -Franz Kafka
• I send my best regards from hell.
• To be a poet is a condition, not a profession. -Robert Frost
• When you break someone's heart, you also break your own.
• Once in a while it really hits people that they don’t have to experience the world in the way they have been told to. -Alan Keightley
• You will always fall in love, and it will always be like having your throat cut, just that fast. -Catherynne M. Valente
• I hid my deepest feelings so well I forgot where I had placed them.
• The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.
• The trouble is, you think you have time. -Buddha
• it only takes two facing mirrors to construct a labyrinth. -Jorge Luis Borges
• Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else. -William Faulkner
• I don’t understand how I can know so little about love and how it works. How I can be so bad at it when it’s all I’ve ever wanted.

All I’ve ever known is about leaving or being left. -Carrie Ryan

• I woke up wanting to kiss you.
• And in the dark I can hear your heartbeat, I tried to find the sound but then it stopped and I was in the darkness so darkness I became.
• I love the solitude of reading. I love the deep dive into someone else’s story, the delicious ache of a last page. -Naomi Shihab Nye
• Merry crisis and a happy new fear.
• If not now, then when?
• Sometimes you miss the memories, not the person.
• The trouble with fiction is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense. -Aldous Huxley
• For last year's words belong to last year's language And next year's words await another voice. -T.S. Eliot
• I thought I ought to feel like crying, then, but my eyes weren't even a little wet. Or I should be angry, or something, but I was just nothing. I was so full of nothing that it was something. -Maggie Stiefvater
• The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page. -St. Augustine
• If I can’t be beautiful, I want to be invisible. -Chuck Palahniuk
• I love you, even if there isn’t any me, or any love, or even any life. I love you. -Zelda Fitzgerald
• You're afraid to live and you're afraid to die, what a way to exist.
• Cause even though the flower fades, something takes its place. A marching band on a sunny day, two pretty eyes or a pretty face.
• There is no friend as loyal as a book. -Ernest Hemingway
• The only thing you have to do in this life is die. Everything else is a choice.
• Sometimes I feel like if you just watch things, just sit still and let the world exist in front of you - sometimes I swear that just for a second time freezes and the world pauses in its tilt. Just for a second. And if you somehow found a way to live in that second, then you would live forever.
• If these sheets were the states and you were miles away, I'd fold them end over end to bring you closer to me.
• I am not young enough to know everything. -Oscar Wilde
• All at once, we were madly, clumsily, shamelessly, agonizingly in love with each other. -Vladimir Nabokov
• The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive the situation, unless you realize that that situation is over, you cannot move forward. -Steve Maraboli
• Some people are so poor, all they have is money.
• How do you get so empty? Who takes it out of you? -Ray Bradbury
• There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm. -Willa Cather
• The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt. -Sylvia Plath
• Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don’t be afraid. -Frederick Buechner
• He offered her the world. She said she had her own. -Monique Duval
• Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their illusions destroyed. -Friedrich Nietzsche
• People are just as wonderful as sunsets if I can let them be…when I look at a sunset, I don’t find myself saying, “soften the orange a bit on the right hand corner”. I don’t try to control a sunset. I watch with awe as it unfolds. -Carl Rogers
• Yes, terrible things happen, but sometimes those terrible things—they save you. -Chuck Palahniuk
• The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion. -Albert Camus
• I want to travel across the world and breathe the air of new places.
• She cried like a person whose heart is broken and wondered how, when two people loved each other, there could be such a broken heart. -Graceling, Kristin Cashore
• Can you look yourself in the mirror in the morning and admit that you are no different from every other bundle of bones on this planet?
• All boundaries are conventions waiting to be transcended. One may transcend any convention if only one can first conceive of doing so. -Robert Frobisher
• What we think, we become. -Guatama Suddharta
• Find what you love and let it kill you. -Charles Bukowski
• I feel the need to swing away from constant explanations. I want to run away from too much consciousness, too much awareness. At night, I seek dancing, friendships, nature, forgetfulness, music, or sleep.
• People will kill you over time, and how they'll kill you is with tiny, harmless phrases, like "be realistic." -Dylan Moran
• If you're not going to speak up, how is the world supposed to know you exist?
• Don't be delicate, be vast and brilliant.
• Sometimes I think everyone is just pretending to be brave, and none of us really are. Maybe pretending is how you get brave, I don’t know. -Grenn (Storm of Swords)
• You were summer recklessness but you always had these two rules : stay with me and dont become a ghost.
• The people you love become ghosts inside of you and like this you keep them alive.
• Stop the glorification of busy.
• We must become the change we want to see.
• Children don't grow up, our bodies get bigger but our hearts get torn up.
• We are all searching for someone whose demons play well with ours.
• There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired. -F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Everything is more beautiful because we are doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again. -Homer
• He blinks and says there are two types of people: those who want to cry, and those who are crying already and want to stop.
• We should be able to kill ourselves in our heads and then be reborn.
• We think too much and feel too little.
• Nobody is perfect until you fall in love with them.
• Well I guess this is growing up.
• The world is too big to leave unexplored.
• You are a human being, with bumps and crevices and scars. You are a million shapes rolled into one. You are a universe within yourself. You are a human being, and you are magnificent.
• Life moves very fast. It rushes from heaven to hell in a matter of seconds. -Paulo Coelho
• If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed. -Sylvia Plath
• Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life. -Fernando Pessoa
• My bones feel like splinters when I wake and remember you are no longer here.
• You're not an adult at all, you're just a tall child holding a beer, having a conversation you don't understand.
• The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubt, while the stupid people are full of confidence. -Charles Bukowski
• One by one I drowned all the people I'd been. -Conor Oberst
• It was as though he could hold her thoughts together when they started running off in directions she didn't want to explore.
• I'm not scared of death. I'm a little bit scared of what comes after. -Brand New
• If there's one thing that everyone needs to learn, it's that you can never outrun yourself.
• These moments will all be stories someday.
• Hold on to whatever keeps you warm inside.
• The human skin can be hard to live in.
• A head full of fears has no space for dreams.
• People will love you. People will hate you. And none of it will have anything to do with you. -Abraham Hicks
• Everything I've ever let go of has claw marks on it. -David Foster Wallace
• You asked me how I, being immortal, survive so many deaths. There is no great secret. You endure what is unbearable, and you bear it. That is all. -Magnus Bane
• I still love the people I've loved, even if I cross the street to avoid them. -Uma Thurman
• My biggest fear is that eventually you will see me the way I see myself.
• I have a paperback heart dog-eared and creased by the world, the colors are faded and the spine is worn but I'm glad to see its finally in good hands.
• When I say be creative, I don’t mean that you should all go and become great painters and great poets. I simply mean let your life be a painting, let your life be a poem. -Osho
• Everything I love has either ruined me or watched as I ruined it instead.
• Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.
• We cannot control the wind, but we can direct the sail.
• The mind is beautiful because of the paradox. It uses itself to understand itself. -Adam Elenbass
• Always be the woman a man needs, not the woman who needs a man.
• Don’t think you’re the only bastard who ever suffered—just write as if you were. -William Logan
• Do you know often I speak to you when you are not here? How often I mouth words and phrases to the space you should be filling? -Tyler Knott Gregson
• You get a strange feeling when you’re about to leave a place. Like you’ll not only miss the people you love but you’ll miss the person you are now at this time and this place, because you’ll never be this way ever again. -Azar Nafisi
• I am somehow less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops. -Stephen Jay Gould
• No one is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them. -Assata Shakur
• All great and precious things are lonely.
• I sleep with your name on my lips.
• If you kill a man, you're a murderer. If you kill millions of men, you're a conqueror. If you kill them all, you're God.
• To judge a man by his weakest link or deed is like judging the power of the ocean by one wave.
• They told me that to make her fall in love I had to make her laugh. But every time she laughs I'm the one who falls in love.
• Maybe you just have to live for the small things like being called pretty or someone picking up the pen you dropped or laughing so hard that your stomach hurts. Maybe that's all that really matters at the end of the day.
• You can wake up now, the universe has ended.
• It’s a most distressing affliction to have a sentimental heart and a skeptical mind. -Naguib Mahfouz
• You lose it if you talk about it. -Ernest Hemingway
• I'm not sure where I want to go- or who I want to be. All I know is that in 10 years from now, I hope that I am happy. -Paige Romero
• You said you were the best at keeping secrets. That no one could keep one like you. In that exact instant all I wanted to be was a silent secret whispered slowly into your ear. -Tyler Knott Gregson
• Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing. -Theodore Roosevelt
• My goal is to not wake up at 40 with the bitter realization that I've wasted my life on a job I hate because I was forced to decide on a career in my teens.
• I love you and it’s getting worse. -Joseph E. Morris
• Don't get too close, it's dark inside, it's where my demons hide.
• You tell a man the truth about himself, and well...they find they have trouble accepting it. -Patrick Ness
• I could start fires with what I feel for you. -David Ramirez
• 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. -F. Scott Fitzgerald
• You planted roses in my heart, daisies in my mind, lilies in my eyes and left them all to die.
• Life is all memory except for the one present moment that goes by so quick you can hardly catch it going. -Tennessee Williams
• I remember riding in a taxi one afternoon between very tall buildings under a mauve and rose sky; I began to bawl because I had everything I wanted and knew I would never be so happy again. -F. Scott Fitzgerald
• But I will love you forever, my darling, and that's the problem.
• The way you can still hear their laugh ringing in your ears even though haven't seen them in a very long time is maybe the definition of still loving someone.
• I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life. -Virginia Woolf
• How to murder someone: Tell them you love them and never talk to them again.
• Don't depend too much on anyone in this world because even your shadow leaves you when you're in darkness.
• Ugly ducklings will grow up as swans and all your scars will fade: make today the moment you decide to grow white wings and finally be okay.
• The city is wilder than you think and kinder than you think it is a valley and you are a horse in it, it is a house and you are a child in it safe and warm here in the fire of each other. To wake up and be like the weather, to be no longer the broken hearted servants of mad kings.
• This is your world. Shape it or someone else will.
• The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently. -Friedrich Nietzsche
• Reality exists in the human mind.
• What I never learned from my mother was that just because someone desires you

does not mean they value you. Desire is the kind of thing that eats you and leaves you starving.

• I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found. -John Steinbeck
• Creativity is intelligence having fun. -Albert Einstein
• Before it gets better; the darkness gets bigger; the person that you'd take a bullet for is behind the trigger.
• By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired. -Franz Kafka
• I am not what happened to me. I am who I choose to become. -Carl Jung
• Everyone’s just looking for reasons to wake up and get out of bed, some do it for nothing but a kiss, perhaps a cup of coffee, others have a harder time; no train to catch, no hand to hold, no reasons at all.
• Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing. -Oscar Wilde
• And if I don't meet you no more in this world, then I'll, I'll meet you in the next one, and don't be late, don't be late...