Heartbreak. Not only does it shatter the soul, but it gradually breaks it down, and suppresses every little emotion, whether or not it is microscopic and fragile, or if it consists even the most durable nerve... Hopeful am I, at least one of these quotes shall illuminate your inner being after experiencing some form of desolation. Keep your head up my darlings! There is greatness beyond!
1. "I wanted to write down exactly what I felt / But somehow the paper stayed empty / And I could not have described it any better."
-Word Porn
2. "Slowly but surely / She's letting go / Slowly but surely / She'll grow / Strong enough / To leave you behind."
-r.h. Sin
3. "Maybe / Sometimes / We cling to the things that make us bleed / Because we'd rather / Feel the pain / In the familiar / Than the peace / In the unknown."
-M.M.
4. "Do not hold your breath for anyone / Do not wish your lungs be still / It may delay the cracks from spreading / But eventually they will. Sometimes to keep yourself together / You must allow yourself to leave / Even if breaking your own heart / Is what it takes to let you breathe."
-e.h
5. "And I was / Never sure / Whether You / Were the / Lighthouse or / The storm." -David Jones
6. "If August can quietly slip / Into September / And the birds can fly south / Where it's warmer / If they can move on after summer / Then so can I."
-Olivia Wilde
7. "I found myself falling in / Love with everything again. When my smile came back / I knew I was going to be okay."
-The Better Man Project
8. "The funny thing / About chasing the past / Is that most people / Wouldn't know / What to do with it / If they caught."
-Atticus
9. "She was a forgiver. Her heart was so large / She didn't know how / To give up on people / Because she always believed the good in those she loved. It was until she was walked on / So many times / She had no choice but to let go of those who burned / Holes in her heart."
-Word Porn
10. "Feel everything, because you're healing. And because you are aloud to experience / All of your emotions at once or in waves. Feelings give you permission to start the / Process of making your way back home. Why get lost in hiding from yourself?"
-Alex Elle
11. "Life can be sunshine / On peaceful days with bright blue skies / Or life can be the raindrops / That fall like tears squeezed from your eyes / Life can be the heaven / That you'll only reach through hell / Since you won't know that you're happy / If you've not been sad as well
12. "I think it's time I let you go / And that's so hard to do because a part of me will love you for the rest of my life / But the daydreaming, the running in place, it's not healthy / I can't do that anymore."
-Unknown
13. "I admire people / who choose / to shine / even after / all the storms / they've been through."
-My Fashion Chronicles
14. "Stars can't shine without darkness."
-Unknown
15. "If you were born with / the weakness to fall / you were born with / the strength to rise."
-Rupi Kaur
