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#1

“Like most misery, it started with apparent happiness.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

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#2

“He does something to me, that boy. Every time. It’s his only detriment. He steps on my heart. He makes me cry.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

tags: heartbreak, love, sad

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#3

“Usually we walk around constantly believing ourselves. "I'm okay" we say. "I'm alright". But sometimes the truth arrives on you and you can't get it off. That's when you realize that sometimes it isn't even an answer--it's a question. Even now, I wonder how much of my life is convinced.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

tags: truth

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#4

“I want to believe that I'm not wrong. I want to believe that life isn't full of darkness. Even if storms come to pass, the sun will shine again. No matter how painful and hard the rain may beat down on me.”
― Natsuki Takaya

tags: fruits-basket, hope, yuki

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#5

“When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: the people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous and surly. They are like this because they can't tell good from evil. But I have seen the beauty of good, and the ugliness of evil, and have recognized that the wrongdoer has a nature related to my own - not of the same blood and birth, but the same mind, and possessing a share of the divine. And so none of them can hurt me. No one can implicate me in ugliness. Nor can I feel angry at my relative, or hate him. We were born to work together like feet, hands and eyes, like the two rows of teeth, upper and lower. To obstruct each other is unnatural. To feel anger at someone, to turn your back on him: these are unnatural.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

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#6

“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

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#7

“The funniest people are the saddest ones”
― Confucius

tags: funny, people, sad

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#8

“Learn this now and learn it well. Like a compass facing north, a man’s accusing finger always finds a woman. Always. You remember that, Mariam.”
― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns

tags: alone, man-s-heart, men, sad, violence, women

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#9

“A void in my chest was beginning to fill with anger. Quiet, defeated anger that guaranteed me the right to my hurt, that believed no one could possibly understand that hurt.”
― Rachel Sontag, House Rules: A Memoir

tags: anger, hurt, pain, sad, sadness, void

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#10

“She knew I could tell with one glance, one look, one simple instant. It was her eyes. Despite the thick makeup, they were still dark-rimmed., haunted, and sad. Most of all though, they were familiar. The fact that we were in front of hundreds of strangers changed nothing at all. I'd spent a summer with those same eyes-scared, lost, confused-staring back at me. I would have known them anywhere.”
― Sarah Dessen, Just Listen

tags: lost, pain, rape, sad, sadness, sexual-assault

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#11

“I thought at the time that I couldn't be horrified anymore, or wounded. I suppose that's a common conceit, that you've already been so damaged that damage itself, in its totality, makes you safe.”
― Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin

tags: damage, sad, safe, safety

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#12

“Often times, a person will think they know you by piecing together tiny facts and arranging those pieces into a puzzle that makes sense to them. If we don't know ourselves very well, we'll mistakenly believe them, and drift toward where they tell us to swim, only to drown in our own confusion.
Here's the truth: it's important to take the necessary steps to find out who you are. Because you hold endless depths below the surface of a few facts and pieces and past decisions. You aren't only the ripples others can see. You are made of oceans.”
― Victoria Erickson

tags: humans, oceans

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#13

“When the black thing was at its worst, when the illicit cocktails and the ten-mile runs stopped working, I would feel numb as if dead to the world. I moved unconsciously, with heavy limbs, like a zombie from a horror film. I felt a pain so fierce and persistent deep inside me, I was tempted to take the chopping knife in the kitchen and cut the black thing out I would lie on my bed staring at the ceiling thinking about that knife and using all my limited powers of self-control to stop myself from going downstairs to get it.”
― Alice Jamieson, Today I'm Alice: Nine Personalities, One Tortured Mind

tags: dead, depressed, depression, drug-abuse, drug-use, heavy, horror-films, insomnia, mental-health, numb, self-harm, sleepless, suicidal, suicide, unconsciousness, zombie

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#14

“Some scars don't hurt. Some scars are numb. Some scars rid you of the capacity to feel anything ever again.”
― Joyce Rachelle

tags: betrayal, emotional-abuse, hurt, indifference, numb, pain, scars, trust

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#15

“Even when I try to stir myself up, I just get irritated because I can't make anything come out. And in the middle of the night I lie here thinking about all this. If I don't get back on track somehow, I'm dead, that's the sense I get. There isn't a single strong emotion inside me.”
― Banana Yoshimoto

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#16

“غريب أمر الإنسان حقًا .. إن عيوبنا ككشافات سيارة نركبها .. لا نراها نحن أبدًا بينما هى تعمى عيون الآخرين الذين يقابلوننا .. و بالمثل نحن نرى كشافاتهم- أو عيوبهم - بوضوح تام قد يدفعنا إلى مطالبتهم بتخفيضها قليلاً .”
― أحمد خالد توفيق

tags: أحمد-خالد-توفيق

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#17

“أما السعادة فلا أحد يكتب عنها.....نحن نعيشها في جشع و لا نشارك فيها أحدا”
― أحمد خالد توفيق

tags: السعادة, جشع

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#18

“أرجو أن أوضح شيئاً .. ما حدث في أمريكا مأساة وقتل لأبرياء .. وما حدث في فلسطين نفس الشيء .. لكن مدنييهم ليسوا أغلى ثمناً من مدنيينا”
― أحمد خالد توفيق

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#19

“I DON'T CARE!" Harry yelled at them, snatching up a lunascope and throwing it into the fireplace. "I'VE HAD ENOUGH, I'VE SEEN ENOUGH, I WANT OUT, I WANT IT TO END, I DON'T CARE ANYMORE!"
"You do care," said Dumbledore. He had not flinched or made a single move to stop Harry demolishing his office. His expression was calm, almost detached. "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

tags: ache, death, dumbledore, harry-potter, hurt, life, pain

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#20

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
― James Baldwin

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#21

“There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Mistral's Kiss

tags: depression, pain, trauma

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#22

“I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange impending doom.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

tags: addiction, alchohol, drinking, drugs, loneliness, melancholy, pain

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#23

“One thing you can't hide - is when you're crippled inside.”
― John Lennon

tags: beatles, emotions, hypocrisy, pain, suffering

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#24

“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

tags: grief, harry-potter, hurt, pain

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#25

“The worst type of crying wasn't the kind everyone could see--the wailing on street corners, the tearing at clothes. No, the worst kind happened when your soul wept and no matter what you did, there was no way to comfort it. A section withered and became a scar on the part of your soul that survived. For people like me and Echo, our souls contained more scar tissue than life.”
― Katie McGarry, Pushing the Limits

tags: crying, depression, grief, hurt, pain, sadness

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#26

“Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say “My tooth is aching” than to say “My heart is broken.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain

tags: depression, pain

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#27

“Compassion hurts. When you feel connected to everything, you also feel responsible for everything. And you cannot turn away. Your destiny is bound with the destinies of others. You must either learn to carry the Universe or be crushed by it. You must grow strong enough to love the world, yet empty enough to sit down at the same table with its worst horrors.”
― Andrew Boyd, Daily Afflictions: The Agony of Being Connected to Everything in the Universe

tags: compassion, destiny, empathy, pain, universe

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#28

“Once you had put the pieces back together, even though you may look intact, you were never quite the same as you'd been before the fall.”
― Jodi Picoult

tags: heartbreak, life

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#29

“نُداري أوجاعَنا ونتَستَر عليها
كما لو كانتْ عوراتٌ
لا نُريدُ لها أن تنكشِف
لِنحفظَ بذلكَ طُهرنا وعفافنا
بإظهار سعادتنا العارِمة
وضحكاتنا الزائِفةِ أمام الآخرينْ
لا ندرِي بِأن الوجع في حدِ ذاتِهِ عاهرٌ !
يَفضَحُ نفسهُ بِنفسِه
من خلالِ ضحكاتِهِ الفاجِرة !
شماتةً فينا .”
― ساميه جلابي

tags: الآخرين, الألم, الزيف, الضحكة, النفس, الوجع

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#30

“حينما يجد الإنسان أن مصيره هو المعاناة، فإن عليه أن يتقبل آلامه و معاناته كما لو أنها مهمة مفروضة عليه، وهي مهمة فريدة ومتميزة. و عليه أن يعترف بالحقيقة بأنه حتى في المعاناة فهو فريد و وحيد في الكون. لا يستطيع أحد أن يخلصه من معاناته أو يعاني بدلاً منه. ففرصته الفريدة تكمن في الطريقة التي يتحمل بها أعباءه و متاعبه”
― فيكتور إيميل فرانكل, Man's Search for Meaning

tags: الألم, المعاناه

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