#ss

There you go...let it all slide out. Unhappiness can't stick in a person's soul when it's slick with tears. ↗

— Shannon Hale

#happiness #sadness #tears #unhappiness #sad

You are never too old to become younger! ↗

— Mae West

#paradox #poetry #story #story-telling #youthfulness

I didn't know why I was going to cry, but I knew that if anybody spoke to me or looked at me too closely the tears would fly out of my eyes and the sobs would fly out of the throat and I'd cry for a week. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

#sadness #sad

I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints. ↗

— Billy Joel

#sadness #saints #sin #virtue #sad

The sun stopped shining for me is all. The whole story is: I am sad. I am sad all the time and the sadness is so heavy that I can't get away from it. Not ever. ↗

— Nina LaCour

#sad

What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#create #cured #daring #disease #lives

The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention. ↗

— Kahlil Gibran

#deeds #kindness #acting

When your action is gone, and all that’s left is motionlessness, I’ll be there, whistling.
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— Jarod Kintz

#alone #lonely #motion #motionlessness #whistle

The farther you go, however, the harder it is to return. The world has many edges, and it's easy to fall off. ↗

— Anderson Cooper

#progress #travel #action

Well, when I was five, I wanted my mother to let me go around and around inside a dryer with the clothes,” Clary said. “The difference is, she didn’t let me.” “Probably because going around and around in a dryer can be fatal,” Jace pointed out, “whereas pasta is rarely fatal. Unless Isabelle makes it. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#city-of-bones #clary-fray #dryer #jace-wayland #mortal-instruments