#sad

This was the lesson we kept learning over and over and over, the lesson our mother was best capable of teaching us. Love—whatever else it might or might not be—was fleeting. Love stormed into your life and occupied it, it took over every corner of your soul, made itself comfortable, made itself wanted, then treasured, then necessary, love did all of this and then it did next the only thing it had left to do, it retreated, it vanished, it left no trace of itself. Love was horrifying. ↗

— Christie Hodgen

#love #sad #true #life

The healing process can only truly begin when we are willing to remember. ↗

— Phoebe Stone

#life #pain #saddness #true #life

There was no up, there was no down. There was a steady, nauseated life five minutes ago, but nothing five minutes from now. And then, very suddenly, there was no 'now. ↗

— Paige Harbison

#sad #tears #life

I’m sorry and I believe in you and I’ll always be near you, protecting you, and I will never leave you, I’ll be curled around your heart for the rest of your life. ↗

— Jennifer Egan

#life

The sadest part of love life is when you cannot live with and without the one you love ↗

— Amit Abraham

#love-life #saddest #without #life

We try to fix the outside so much, but our control of the outer world is limited, temporary, and often, illusory. ↗

— Matthieu Ricard

#life #problems #sadness #life

But there is nothing enduring in the world, and therefore even joy in the second minute is already not as acute as in the first; in the third minute it becomes still weaker and finally merges unnoticeably with the usual condition of the soul, as a circle on the water, caused by the fall of a pebble, finally merges with the smooth surface. ↗

— Nikolai Gogol

#joy #life #sadness #time #life

After school the very next day, El Rey's mobile home was gone. I laid in bed and wondered what happens to people when they go, if they become like shadows, if they fade away when they disappear from your life. The only thing I could see was the broken picket fence. The only sound I could hear was the cry of birds being killed in the night. ↗

— Joe Meno

#shadows #vanishing #life

... true evil needs no reason to exist, it simply is and feeds upon itself. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#good-and-evil #philosophical #sad-but-true #truth #truth-of-life

Sometimes it's hard to believe what we are really. ↗

— Riyadh Razzaq

#life-lessons #philosophy #riyadh-razzaq #sad #sad-but-true