#ak

I have fooled life and life has fooled me. We are quits. I say good-bye. Think sometimes in the hour of happiness of your poor, comical fool who loved you truly and so well. ↗

— Richard von Krafft-Ebing

#goodbye #letter #life #love #sadness

I wrote a huge number of letters that spring: one a week to Naoko, several to Reiko, and several more to Midori. I wrote letters in the classroom, I wrote letters at my desk at home with Seagull in my lap, I wrote letters at empty tables during my breaks at the Italian restaurant. It was as if I were writing letters to hold together the pieces of my crumbling life. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#norwegian-wood #life

Despair is the result of each earnest attempt to go through life with virtue, justice and understanding, and to fulfill their requirements. Children live on one side of despair, the awakened on the other side. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#children #despair #enlightenment #life

Everywhere I go I see increasing evidence of people swirling about in a human cesspit of their own making. ↗

— Norman Angell

#everywhere #evidence #go #human #i

Honestly," she sighed, "I don't know what kind of life we'll have together, with me always flying off in one direction and you in the other." I smiled. "It's a good thing the world's round," I said. ↗

— Kenneth Oppel

#life

But it's important to acknowledge that while we may make mistakes, in the long run, we may also learn from them. ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#lessons #life #mistake #truth #life

There were moments in a person's life that they would carry with them until their dying day, and Finely knew the moment Jasper's heart broke would be one of those for her. ↗

— Kady Cross

#heart-break #jasper-renn #moments #life

I know I should just leave. Just go. Because there's a point where a mistake turns into a big mistake, and I should probably come to my senses before I get there. ↗

— David Levithan

#decisions #life #mistakes #life

He shrugged, working to make her understand. “There’s whole YouTube montages playing still shots of my butt to music. I don’t take credit for it. My mom’s been paying a trainer for years. Oh, and my six-pack won a Fan’s Choice Award called the SixPackAttack. Three years running. ↗

— Anne Eliot

#unmaking-hunter-kennedy #music

Be the story teller in your life...never let anyone dictate what you’re about. ↗

— Robbie Thomas

#quotes-to-live-by #life