“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
Stephen Chbosky · The Perks of Being a Wallflower, 1999
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229 quotes on life and the lessons it teaches — from the classics to the everyday.
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
Oscar Wilde · The Soul of Man Under Socialism, 1891
“Life is under no obligation to give us what we expect.”
Margaret Mitchell
“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
“The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.”
Charles Dickens · Nicholas Nickleby, 1839
“Part of me aches at the thought of her being so close yet so untouchable.”
Nicholas Sparks · A Walk to Remember, 1999
“The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.”
Ernest Hemingway
“To have felt too much is to end in feeling nothing.”
Dorothy Thompson
“Behind every sweet smile, there is a bitter sadness that no one can ever see and feel.”
Tupac Shakur
“The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keep out the joy.”
Jim Rohn
“There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power.”
Washington Irving
“Tears are words that need to be written.”
Paulo Coelho
“Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting go of a little water.”
Antoine Rivarol
“The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.”
Louis E. Boone
“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.”
C.S. Lewis · A Grief Observed, 1961
“The risk of love is loss, and the price of loss is grief. But the pain of grief is only a shadow when compared with the pain of never risking love.”
Hilary Stanton Zunin
“The loveliness of the day is almost unbearable.”
Anne Frank · The Diary of a Young Girl
