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#1

“Come back. Even as a shadow, even as a dream.”
― Euripides

tags: bereavement, dream, greek, grief, loss, mourning, shadow, tragedy

#2

“Perfer et obdura, dolor hic tibi proderit olim. (Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.)”
― Ovid

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#3

“You wear a mask for so long, you forget who you were beneath it.”
― Alan Moore, V for Vendetta

tags: honesty, pretense, truthfulness

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#4

“What is better ? to be born good or to overcome your evil nature through great effort ?”
― Paarthurnax skyrim

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#5

“This is why it hurts the way it hurts.

You have too many words in your head. There are too many ways to describe the way you feel. You will never have the luxury of a dull ache.

You must suffer through the intricacy of feeling too much.”
― pleasefindthis, I Wrote This For You

tags: sadness-feeling-ache

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#6

“One may smile, and smile, and be a villain; at least I'm sure it may be so in Denmark.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

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#7

“You will hear thunder and remember me,
And think: she wanted storms. The rim
Of the sky will be the colour of hard crimson,
And your heart, as it was then, will be on fire.”
― Anna Akhmatova, The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova

tags: poetry

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#8

“You are so brave and quiet I forget you are suffering.”
― Ernest Hemingway

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#9

“We stopped looking for monsters under our bed when we realized that they were inside us.”
― Charles Darwin

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#10

“Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive.”
― Josephine Hart, Damage

tags: character-anna-barton

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#11

“Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid.”
― Frederick Buechner, Beyond Words: Daily Readings in the ABC's of Faith

tags: beauty, courage, fear

1107 likes

#12

“The trouble is, you think you have time.”
― Jack Kornfield, Buddha's Little Instruction Book

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#13

“This too shall pass.”
― Hakim Sanai

tags: endurance, proverbs

995 likes

#14

“But even in her laughter there was something missing. She never seemed to be truly happy; she just seemed to be passing time while she waited for something else. She was tired of just existing; she wanted to live.”
― Cecelia Ahern

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#15

“I will love you when you are a still day.
I will love you when you are a hurricane.”
― Clementine von Radics

tags: lover, mouthful-of-forevers, passion

224 likes

#16

“People will love you. People will hate you. And none of it will have anything to do with you.”
― Abraham Hicks

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#17

“Some people turn sad awfully young. No special reason, it seems, but they seem almost to be born that way. They bruise easier, tire faster, cry quicker, remember longer and, as I say, get sadder younger than anyone else in the world. I know, for I'm one of them.”
― Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine

2312 likes

#18

“Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?”
― Epicurus

tags: atheism, religion

2365 likes

#19

“I desire the things which will destroy me in the end.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

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#20

“I am still so naïve; I know pretty much what I like and dislike; but please, don’t ask me who I am. A passionate, fragmentary girl, maybe?”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

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#21

“I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.”
― Sylvia Plath , The Collected Poems

tags: dark, sleep, soul, sylvia-plath

734 likes

#22

“I detest the masculine point of view. I am bored by his heroism, virtue, and honour. I think the best these men can do is not talk about themselves anymore.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Pargiters

429 likes

#23

“When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

tags: change, life, storm, turbulence

726 likes

#24

“All the hardest, coldest people you meet were once as soft as water. And that's the tragedy of living.”
― pleasefindthis, I Wrote This For You

631 likes

#25

“And then my soul saw you and it kind of went "Oh there you are. I've been looking for you.”
― pleasefindthis, I Wrote This For You

626 likes

#26

“Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.”
― Margaret Atwood

tags: apocryphal, feminism

3942 likes

#27

“Some walks you have to take alone.”
― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

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#28

“That's all right,' she says, and I have to wonder how many times she's said that to the people in her life who screwed her over somehow”
― Tim Tharp, The Spectacular Now

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#29

“The softest hearts always have the toughest shields.”
― Claire Cross, Double Trouble

tags: hearts, shields

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#30

“some people meet the way the sky meets the earth, inevitably, and there is no stopping or holding back their love. It exists in a finished world, beyond the reach of common sense.”
― Louise Erdrich, Tales of Burning Love

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