#ss

I'm lonely. And I'm lonely in some horribly deep way and for a flash of an instant, I can see just how lonely, and how deep this feeling runs. And it scares the shit out of me to be this lonely because it seems catastrophic. ↗

— Augusten Burroughs

#lonely #sad #sadness #sorrow #sad

Nothing thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#sad

What a sad era when it is easier to smash an atom than a prejudice. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#fission #fusion #sad

I hope no one who reads this book has been quite as miserable as Susan and Lucy were that night; but if you have been - if you've been up all night and cried till you have no more tears left in you - you will know that there comes in the end a sort of quietness. You feel as if nothing is ever going to happen again. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#sadness #sad

Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#grief #loss #mourning #sadness #sorrow

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