"I got the type of love the scares people away. [They're] not ready for me." - Reyna Biddy
"For years mental health professionals taught people that they could be psychologically healthy without social support, that 'unless you love yourself, no one else will love you'...The truth is, you cannot love yourself unless you have been loved or are loved. The capacity to love cannot be built in isolation." - Bruce D. Perry, The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog
"There are stars in your dark side that are brighter than the sun." - Andrea Gibson, Hook Line
"I've been screaming for years and no one has ever heard me." - Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me
"Nothing about her pain was poetic. She broke poetry. She bled in red and died in black." - VàZaki Nada
"To me you are a work of art and I would give you my heart -- but that's if I had one..." - Morrissey, Ringleader of the Tormentors
"Like you, there are times when I can make room for everyone in my heart, except myself. You see, I'm still trying to love the parts of me people don't get to read." -maxwellpoetry.tumblr.com, "Don't Forget Yourself"
"Sadness is felt. To feel anything is important. My biggest fear is to become so numb that it feels like I'm a [hollow] corpse in this grey world, to become dehumanized. Since happiness is difficult to come by, I accept and appreciate feeling sad more than nothing." - j13coul.tumblr.com
"I know you have feelings left somewhere. [They're] somewhere buried away. I swear I can see it. I can feel it. But someone once told me when someone doesn't love you like you deserve, run. Run far no matter how hard it is because nothing is worse than loving someone and watching someone be afraid to love you." - theforgottenonesxx.tumblr.com
"People ask all the time how I'm doing, but the truth is, they don't really want to know." - Jodi Picoult, "Handle With Care" (via wordsnquotes.tumblr.com)
"Remember: when people tell you something's wrong or doesn't work for them, they're almost always right. When they tell you exactly what they think is wrong and know how to fix it, they are almost always wrong." - Neil Gaiman
"Even if you cannot seem to walk that mile in your friend's shoes, you are still capable of standing beside them to be a supporter until the day they learn to smile again." - Marc Hack
"They always say that I am strong. But the truth is, I'm just hiding my weaknesses." - isuslatekonalang.tumblr.com
"The more you open up, the more you get hurt. So basically, I'm just riddled with scars and I just don't want any more." -Freddie Mercury
"Stillness and solitude, he thought to himself; silence and solitude...that's the only element in which the mind is free now." - Virginia Woolfe, from Complete Works
"No one likes to see people in moods of despair they themselves have survived." - F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Grief does not change you, it reveals you." - Peter Van Houren, The Fault in Our Stars
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Quotes I've Fallen in Love with
PoetryWell, here are just a few of my favorite quotes. I hope you enjoy them. I apologize if there are repeats, There are thousands of quotes on here and it's hard to keep track of them all. Languages vary from English to Italian, French, and German at ti...
