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#1

“Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein

tags: change, human

#2

“Be with me always - take any form - drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! it is unutterable! I can not live without my life! I can not live without my soul!”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

tags: love

4462 likes

#3

“I have to remind myself to breathe -- almost to remind my heart to beat!”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

1315 likes

#4

“How cruel, your veins are full of ice-water and mine are boiling.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

159 likes

#5

“Your presence is a moral poison that would contaminate the most virtuous”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

89 likes

#6

“In secret pleasure — secret tears
This changeful life has slipped away”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

tags: elly-kleinman

43 likes

#7

“It’s no company at all, when people know nothing and say nothing,’ she muttered.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

54 likes

#8

“Would you like to live with your soul in the grave?”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

35 likes

#9

“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.”
― Oscar Wilde (attributed to)

tags: classic-insult

5143 likes

#10

“After all, tomorrow is another day!”
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

2142 likes

#11

“Hardships make or break people.”
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

tags: adversity, courage, life, perseverance

823 likes

#12

“It was better to know the worst than to wonder.”
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

tags: knowledge

759 likes

#13

“Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.”
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

tags: gone-with-the-wind, rhett-butler

702 likes

#14

“The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle; Corrections And Editor Edgar W. Smith; Illustrators, The Hound of the Baskervilles

tags: classic, crime, detective, mystery, novel

1553 likes

#15

“He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: classic-insult

762 likes

#16

“That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can't say 'No' in any of them.”
― Dorothy Parker, While Rome Burns

625 likes

#17

“Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?”
― Mark Twain

tags: classic-insult, simile

412 likes

#18

“Keep your friends close but your enemies closer.”
― Mario Puzo

tags: classic, life, literature, misattributed-machiavelli

206 likes

#19

“If we are all alive ten years hence, let's meet, and see how many of us have got our wishes, or how much nearer we are then than now.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

130 likes

#20

“Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

tags: coldness, depression, happiness, life, sad, sadness, sorrow

12164 likes

#21

“You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer

tags: happiness, sadness

6571 likes

#22

“What you must understand about me is that I’m a deeply unhappy person.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

5155 likes

#23

“She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just takes time. ”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

tags: the-perks-of-being-a-wallflower

4763 likes

#24

“They say when you are missing someone that they are probably feeling the same, but I don't think it's possible for you to miss me as much as I'm missing you right now”
― Edna St. Vincent Millay

4145 likes

#25

“Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

tags: pain, sadness, stoicism

4159 likes

#26

“She says nothing at all, but simply stares upward into the dark sky and watches, with sad eyes, the slow dance of the infinite stars.”
― Neil Gaiman, Stardust

3698 likes

#27