Everyone suffers from something, whether it be a broken heart or a rough day with your mental illness, there are times where quotes can and will help break you down only to pick you back up and help you start healing. And some quotes that just make you think and process the things going on in your life that you don’t always have control of. Here are 31 quotes just from one amazing author and poet that were chosen to do just that for you on both you best of days and your worse.
1. The Turning Of The Sphere
“Who could I love now?
Surely, you are both the start and the end of the world.”
2. The Rain Of Black Umbrellas
“I'm not saying I know you better than anyone else.
I'm saying I know better than anyone else what it's like to miss you.”
3.
“Sadness is a way for the person deep down inside of you to take care of you, the person desperately trying to keep you alive despite everything. They reach out from the dark inside you and pinch your heart between their fingers so that you’ll stop whatever you’re doing and look around you, and wonder why your heart feels so very, very sore.
4. The Truth Is Ugly
“In the movies, the person leaving you never has a blocked nose when they cry.
And all their tears are pretty.”
5. The Remaining Me
“Even after the entire world
has taken me apart, there’s
still a part of me left for you.
6.
“I need you to understand something. I wrote this for you. I wrote this for you and only you. Everyone else who reads it, doesn’t get it. They may think they get it, but they don’t. This is the sign you’ve been looking for.
You Were Meant To Read These Words.
7.
“There we all were, trying to be better people than we could ever hope to be.”
8. The Translation Service
“And when I asked you how you’d been I meant I missed you more than I’ve ever missed anything before.”
9. The Stuff And The Things
“If you like a whole bunch of things, and I like a whole bunch of things, maybe one of the things that we both like, can be each other.”
10. The Heart Outgrows The Chest
“The further inside you hide the hurt, the more it hurts inside.
All wounds need air to heal.”
11. The Angle At Which We Are All Judged
“If you mean it, say it. If you say it, do it. If you don’t, then leave it.”
12. The World Is Not As Dark As It Seems
"You can’t hate everyone. You haven’t even met most of them.”
13.
“Somewhere across the interstate
Exposure to the drug trade of emotions
And the tsunami and typhoon of feelings
Has made us all cops and robbers
Of what we keep in the cavities
In our chests."
14.
“A radioactive wave
Breaking heat
Down to your thighs
An execution in a storm
It’s a good way to die”
15.
“There is no prose as inspiring as a single human being with the courage to live well.”
16. The Rose Is Not Always A Rose
“You can be in love and you can be in a relationship. But they’re not always the same thing.”
17. The Water Flows Uphill
“The heart is a muscle like any other and the best exercise you can do for it is called picking yourself up off the floor.”
18. The Line Between Madness And Life
“When I’m crazy, you tell me it’s just the chemicals in my brains
mixing and unmixing themselves at the wrong time.
When I’m in love, you tell me it’s as real as sunshine and we’re
greater than just molecules and air.
So I choose to believe different things, depending on my love.
Depending on my chemicals. At all time.”
19. The House We Keep Moment In
“May you do the things you want to and always remember what it felt like when you were doing them.
20. The Fragments Of Hope
“Dear Future You,
Hold on. Please.
Love,
Me.
Dear Current You,
I’m holding on,
But it hurts.
Love,
Me.
Dear Past You,
I held on.
Thank you,
Love,
Me.”
21. The Reasons The Willow Weeps
“It weeps for you late at night, when sleep does not come easily. It weeps for the one you miss. It weeps for the dreams on the tips of your fingers. It weeps for appointments missed and it weeps for the tears in your pillow. It weeps for the silence and it weeps for the noise. It weeps for formal letters where once, language was spoken not. It weeps for the friends you once were. It weeps for the colours faded. It weeps for sunrise. It weeps for a death in the family and it weeps when a baby is born. It weeps for the last time you touched. It weeps for the words that can never be taken back. It weeps so hard and so much and so often. So you don’t have to. So you can carry on. It weeps for you. When you have run out of weeping.”
22.
“No warning
Just a tremor
Under your skin
And then it begins again”
23. The Glass Sphere
“Even if you are made of night, try to be made of more starlight than darkness.”
24. The Blue Blood
“You were born royalty to those who made you.
They took their crowns and placed them at your feet.
They swapped their robes for working clothes and went to till the fields.
So that one day, you might take off the crown they'd given you and you might give it to someone, new.
And then go and work the fields.”
25.The Ronin Have Names
You say the reason things fall to the ground is because of gravity.
I say that gravity is a word, a name you gave to a small aspect of the magic that surrounds you on a daily basis.
Electricity is another name for magic. Wind is another name for magic. Water is another name for magic. Love is another name for magic.
We all live in a magical place.
26. The Shadows On The Curtain
“Sometimes the most important thing you can say is just,
‘Are you okay’”
27. The Mechanics Of Puppetry
“I guess I should say
thank you, for cutting all
my strings. But if it’s all
the same to you, I wish
you’d left my wings.”
28. The Finite Curve
“You will only be hurt a finite number of times during your life.
You have an infinite number of ways to deal with it.”
29. The Speed Of Feeling
“Now you’ve gone too fast. Now, you’ve made me leave me behind.”
30. The Rules Of Engagement
“All persons entering a heart do so at their own risk. Management can and will be held responsible for any loss, love, theft, ambition or personal injury. Please take care of your belongings. Please take care of the way you look at me. No roller skating, kissing, smoking, fingers through hair, 3 am phone calls, stained letters, littering, unfeeling feelings, a smell left on a pillow, doors slammed, lyrics whispered, or loitering. Thank you.”
31.The Clearly Labeled
“I think you’ll find you’re mistaken. My name is clearly written across the front and I recognise the scratch down the side (that happened in high school). This is my heart. You can’t just come here, and take it.”
So a thank you to Iain Thomas, who writes words so beautifully that is can heal and break both a mind and heart. With more than just the 31 quotes mentioned here to live off of in times of need both pleasant and unpleasant.
