- “Soon you’ll realize that many people will love the idea of you but will lack the maturity to handle the reality of you.”
- “He in his madness prays for storms, and dreams that storms will bring him peace.” – Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych
- “Don’t depend too much on anyone in this world because even your own shadow leaves you when you are in darkness.” – Ibn Taymiyyah
- “You should not have to rip yourself into pieces to keep others whole.”
- “Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.”
- “A flower does not think of competing to the flower next to it. It just blooms.” – Sensei Ogui, Zen Shin Talks
- “Stop setting yourself on fire for someone who stays to watch you burn.”
- “You do care. You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.” – J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
- “Every time you tell your daughter you yell at her out of love, you teach her to confuse anger with kindness, which seems like a good idea until she grows up to trust men who hurt her ‘cause they look so much like you.”
- “The things you say will dig your grave and the things you don’t will fill your casket.”
- “What a shame it is that you’re as beautiful as the ocean but you lack the depth.”
- “Poetry loses its grandeur when you realize there isn’t a single combination of words that can make someone love you back.”
- “There will come a time when you have to stop crossing oceans for people who wouldn’t even jump puddles for you.”
- “Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.” – Margaret Mead
- “The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.”
- “Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death but to inspire yourself to live.” – Adele Brookman
- “You cannot change the direction of the wind but you can adjust the sails.”
- “If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten.” – Tony Robbins
- “Be a voice, not an echo.”
- “Maybe love is to keep dancing together, even when you’re not sure of the steps.”
- “All those nights in a room full of people, and still you were all I could hear.”
- “Why do we find it easier to suffer self-loathing as a reaction to our idleness, than to suffer through attempts to conquer difficulties?”
- “We are street lamps that no one cares to look at because they’re all blinded by the stars.” - lostwallfl0wer
- “The universe has existed for billions of years and by a coincidence we ended up living at the same time. That counts for something.” – sempiternal_
- “Why do we think love will fix us and make us whole when in the end it just leaves us more broken than before?” – s.s.
- “You can’t fix yourself by breaking someone else.”
- “I hope you find someone whose presence is enough to soothe your pain.”
- “We grew weary of the daily miracles... demanding more violent splendors.” – John_Whittemore
- “A mouth never runs out of bullets.” – deluge
- “Sometimes you revisit a bridge to remind yourself why you set it in flames.” – fairycemetery
- “Tell me the world isn’t all bad, that somewhere in the piles of destruction there is room for a flower to grow.” – WordsUnderStars
- “They tell you you’re full of yourself and you tell them no one else wanted the space.” – capturetheashes
- “And we are so desperate to keep alive that which is dead, while we ignore the garden growing beneath our feet.” – fairycemetery
- “People choose to engage in distorted representations of reality so they can feel things in response.”
- “Now that I know what it’s like to be dead I can start living again.”
- “It is my particular tragedy that I desire what I least understand.” – incharmuese
- “A ship meets with an accident, I meet you.” – precariouswords
- “Just because I write about you doesn’t mean I’m writing for you.” – DarkRothko
- “Loving you was like doing chest compressions on a heart that will never start again.” – John_Whittemore
- “Of course you don’t find love, you’re looking in dirty ditches on the side of the street for warm hands in cold places.” – allsska
- “Fear is the bird that sits inside an open cage.” – fairycemetery
- “We began writing because we once thought we’d find the perfect words to express ourselves, and now we can never stop because we know we never will.” – jonnysun
- “I don’t know and it’s pretty liberating.” – BrainPornNinja
- “People want you to love yourself until you love yourself.” – deIuge
- “We greatly prefer suffering over feeling nothing at all.” – John_Whittemore
- “Depression is living in a body that fights to survive with a mind that tries to die.”
- “A painkiller that’s you loving me back.” – _nymphette
- “I wasn’t sad but then I looked around.” – sadqueer4life
- “We grew homes out of loneliness and wondered why no one visits us but the ghosts.” – whorebaby
- “I’m sorry my idea of love is being the gum stuck to the bottom of your shoe.” – iamballet
- “You’re my favorite form of pain.” – DarkRothko
- “Holding in tears is a good way to drown.” – WillyGCmas
- “Loving you is my favorite method of suicide.” – DarkRothko
- “You gave me nothing and I felt all of it.” – thedecadent_
- “One day you won’t have to fantasize being happy.” – elfincharms
- “It feels like a ghost town and all you keep seeing are the people that used to love you.” – allsska
- “I thought you were my north star but you were just another lighthouse calling out to all the ships.” – DarkRothko
- “The most beautiful words come from the most damaged souls.” – whorebaby
- “I wonder if falling in love with my depression will make it leave me too.” – capturingashes
- “Loss lingers longer than love lasts.” – 8bitfiction
- “We want to be filled in many ways. Filled because empty is such a lonely feeling to live with.” – incharmuese
- “After all the love I’ve given the universe it’s still unrequited.” – allsska
- “The heart wants what destroys it.” – 8bitfiction
- “Why do I adore so many women who taste like sadness?” – John_Whittemore
- “Hello universe. I am small, but you wouldn’t be who you are without me.” – fairycemetery
- “Sometimes we write words to keep things alive and sometimes they are the graveyard we use to bury the pain.” – fairycemetery
- “Never let someone see your museum who doesn’t appreciate your art.” – capturingashes
- “Direction is so much more important than speed. Many are going nowhere fast.”
- “You can take all of the apples off my tree but you cannot take my ability to grow apples.” – Melanie Martinez
- “Die with memories, not dreams.”
- “If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.” – George S. Patton
- “Maybe death is a beautiful thing honey but please don’t find out just yet.” – LovelyFilters
- “People are not hotels for the lonely.” – LovelyFilters
- “I thought we would set the world aflame, but I didn’t think that meant you’d burn me first.” – michellemmanese
- “What a tragedy it is to allow somebody to fall in love with you when you’ve ruined everything you’ve ever touched.” – zemblxnity
- “He tore her apart and complained about the mess she made.” – dullandwicked
- “It’s better to tell someone you love them a day too soon than to spend the rest of your life regretting you haven’t done it just one day earlier.” – whorebaby
- “How some of us see with so much more than our eyes.” – fairycemetery
- “Vacations are important for relearning that you will never be happy.” – WernerTwerzog
- “He wrote raw poetry on the dusty windshields of cars only to have the rain wash it away.” – allsska
- “One day the people who never believed in you will brag about how they used to know you.” – sommrray
- “A pessimist complains about the winds. An optimist expects it to change. A realist adjusts the sails.”
- “You can’t explain a million-dollar dream to people with a two-dollar mindset.”
- “Hurt an artist, and you’ll see masterpieces of what you’ve done.” – MilaPrvt
- “I know you’re sick of all the clouds in your head but you don’t have to be sunshine all the time baby you’re the reason people love the rain.” – zemblxnity
- “I hope you find someone who never makes you feel bad for being all that you are.” – byRHSin
- “Don’t set yourself on fire to keep others warm.”
- “Keep falling apart until you are everything again.” – BrainPornNinja
- “And maybe I’ll never be enough for you but I swear to god I will always try to be good enough for me.” – zemblxnity
- “It’s okay to feel empty sometimes, but also remember that you will always be enough to fill your own spaces.” – zemblxnity
- “Sometimes the softest touch causes the greatest damage.” – elfincharms
- “One of the most comforting things about being everything to myself is knowing that only I can let me down.” – BrainPornNinja
- “Now is always happening, but if you don’t stop to notice, you might miss it.” – BrainPornNinja
- “Keep falling apart until you are everything again.” – BrainPornNinja
- “To have someone understand your mind is a different kind of intimacy.” – AlisViolet
aug 26 2015 ∞
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