“[Grief is for the strong, who use it as fuel for burning.]”
“I don t think she s ever coming back.”
“Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break.”
“Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.”
“Do not apologize for crying. Without this emotion, we are only robots.”
“If you know someone who tries to drown their sorrows, you might tell them sorrows know how to swim.”
“Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.”
“Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before--more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle.”
“She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous strands, appreciating its subtle nuances. She was a prism through which sadness could be divided into its infinite spectrum.”
“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.”
“We need never be ashamed of our tears.”
“Those who do not weep, do not see.”
“No truth can cure the sorrow we feel from losing a loved one. No truth, no sincerity, no strength, no kindness can cure that sorrow. All we can do is see it through to the end and learn something from it, but what we learn will be no help in facing the next sorrow that comes to us without warning.”
“Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.”
“Someday, we’ll run into each other again, I know it. Maybe I’ll be older and smarter and just plain better. If that happens, that’s when I’ll deserve you. But now, at this moment, you can’t hook your boat to mine, because I’m liable to sink us both.”
“Inventory: Four be the things I am wiser to know: Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe. Four be the things I d been better without: Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt. Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne. Three be the things I shall have till I die: Laughter and hope and a sock in the eye.”
“Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.”