Heartsick
“Perhaps this is what the stories meant when they called somebody heartsick. Your heart and your stomach and your whole insides felt empty and hollow and aching.”
― Gabriel García Márquez
Tag: sadness
Lasts a Lifetime
“Stab the body and it heals, but injure the heart and the wound lasts a lifetime.”
― Mineko Iwasaki
Image: Benjamin Voros
Cruel Sense of Humor
“Sometimes life has a cruel sense of humor, giving you the thing, you always wanted at the worst time possible.”
― Lisa Kleypas
Image: confession – Kinga Cichewicz
Your Life was Changing
“Someday you’re gonna look back on this moment of your life as such a sweet time of grieving. You’ll see that you were in mourning and your heart was broken, but your life was changing. ..”
― Elizabeth Gilbert
Image: Horváth Attila
Hearts can Break
“Hearts can break. Yes, hearts can break. Sometimes I think it would be better if we died when they did, but we don’t.”
– Stephen King
Image: Adrian Swancar
Separation
“Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”
― Kahlil Gibran
Image: Dodi Achmad
Good Sign
“This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, (Eat, Pray, Love)
Feeling Nothing
“To have felt too much is to end in feeling nothing. ”
– Dorothy Thompson
Love Never Dies a Natural Death
“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.”
― Anais Nin
Protecting Yourself
“You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.”
– Jonathan Safran Foer
Image: Nathan Dumlao