"She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous strands, appreciating its subtle nuances. She was a prism through which sadness could be divided into its infinite spectrum."

— Jonathan Safran Foer (via She was a Hurricane.)

"The only way to overcome sadness is to consume it."

— Jonathan Safran Foer (via She was a Hurricane.)

"Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I’m not going to make it, but you laugh inside — remembering all the times you’ve felt that way."

— Charles Bukowski (via saddest-summer)

"The sadness will last forever."

— Vincent Van Gogh’s suicide note (via saddest-summer)

"Crying is all right in its own way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do."

— C.S. Lewis (via saddest-summer)

"You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness."

— Jonathan Safran Foer (via saddest-summer)

"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 (via eletheowl)

"One day you fall for this boy and he touches you with his fingers.
And he burns holes in your skin with his mouth.
And it hurts when you look at him, and it hurts when you don’t.
And it feels like someone’s cut you open with a jagged piece of glass,
and then you realize you’ve always felt that way."

— (via She was a hurricane.)

"It’s so difficult to describe depression to someone who’s never been there, because it’s not sadness, I know sadness. Sadness is to cry and to feel. But it’s that cold absence of feeling — that really hollowed out feeling. That’s what Dementors are."

— J. K. Rowling (via eletheowl)