Here are 50 of the most beautiful, but painful quotes I have had the privilege to encounter over the course of my life. Some authors are listed, and if not, they're anonymous. Hope they make you feel deeper and think harder. Enjoy.

1. “I am aware that I am less than some people prefer me to be, but most people are unaware that I am so much more than what they see.”

2. "Once, there was a girl who vowed she would save everyone in the world, but forgot herself" .- Holly Black

3. "If love doesn't feel like 90’s R&B, I don’t want it."

4. "And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music." - Friedrich Nietzsche

5. When I was little, I thought love was about red roses and expensive dinners. Truth is, love is giving her half your fries when she said she wasn’t hungry. It’s waking up at 4:00 A.M. to her snoring and refraining from shoving her off the bed. It’s talking in accents just for shits, and trying to embarrass one another in public. It’s going on adventures and making fun of each other. It’s stupid fights and memorable make ups. Love isn’t pretty and romantic. Love is just stumbling through life with your best friend.

6. "I saw a future in him. I saw soft pillows and linen sheets by the beach. I saw the possibility of what I wanted to wake up every morning and see."

7. "How amazing it is to find someone who wants to hear about all the things that go on in your head."

8. "Do you ever realize how badly you’re going to miss a moment while you’re living it? Like wow, these are the good days. I am here and I am happy and I feel alive."

9. "What happened to us? She was lightning and I was thunder, the timing was always slightly off." - Adam Zucconi

10. That’s how you know you love someone, I guess. When you can’t experience anything without wishing the other person were there to see it, too." - The Descendants

11. "The realest people don’t have a lot of friends."

12. “‘And we didn't talk after that’ is probably the saddest thing to say.”

13. "Some nights I wish I could go back in life. Not to change shit, just to feel a couple things twice." -Drake

14. "Everyone’s fucked up. You’ve just gotta decide what kinda fucked up you’re into."

15. "Afraid of decision, I buried my finer feelings in the depths of my heart and they died there." - Mikhail Lermontov, A Hero of Our Time

16. "We live on a blue planet that circles around a ball of fire next to the moon that moves the sea, and you don’t believe in miracles?"

17. "You can’t keep kissing strangers and pretending that it’s him"

18. “Come on, make it easy, say I never mattered.”

19. "Memories are dangerous things. You turn them over and over, until you know every touch and corner, but still you’ll find an edge to cut you." - Mark Lawrence

20. "Six coffees do nothing when you’re tired of life."

21. "I’m not afraid of dying. Pieces of me die all the time." - Sage Francis

22. "You chug a fifth of alcohol by yourself & everyone around you is too busy cheering to wonder how empty you had to be in order to do it."

23. "And then she told herself, “Stop being so weak. Grow up and get over it.” and then she never felt anything again."

24. "Maybe we’ll meet again, when we’re slightly older and our minds less hectic, and I’ll be right for you and you’ll be right for me. But right now I am chaos to your thoughts and you are poison to my heart."

25. "That summer I did not go crazy but I wore very close very close to the bone." -Dorothy Allison, from “To the Bone“

26. "So I drank one, it became four, and when I fell on the floor I drank more. Nothing has changed, I still love you, I still love you." - Morrissey

27. "...And you don’t want me, and maybe that’s why I started kissing strangers."

28. "Two years later, a girl sits in front of her ex-lover. He doesn’t say a word And her heart doesn’t ache for him anymore. Her hair is longer than it’s ever been. She is even more beautiful than the day he left her. And at that moment, he panics. He lost her. And he can never have her back. He can just watch her be beautiful and in love With someone else." - Zienab Hamdan

29. "It doesn’t matter if it’s a relationship, a lifestyle, or a job. If it doesn’t make you happy let it go."

30. "I opened my mouth, almost said something. Almost. The rest of my life might have turned out differently if I had. But I didn’t." - The Kite Runner

31. "Her eyes proposed sin and I accepted hell falling for them."

32. "She was a compulsive pessimist, always looking for the soft brown spot in the fruit, pressing so hard she created it." - Amy Waldman

33. "She gave herself to boys that didn’t matter because she was trying to forget the only one who did."

34. "She had stardust running through her veins, beauty laced into her skin, and love resting in her eyes. She looked infinite."

35. "I have an entire forest living inside me and you have carved your initials into every tree." - Pavana

36. "I started using other boys as an escape from who I was really thinking of, which made me just as bad as the one who broke me to shreds. I looked for love in other men destroying them just as he did me."

37. “What's the saddest word in English?” Almost. “Why?” "I was almost good for her. She was almost in love with me. We almost made it."

38. "Cause you never think that the last time is the last time. You think there will be more. You think you have forever, but you don’t." - Meredith Grey

39. "I would tell you that “flowers grew in the attic of your body” but all you did was smile with your worn out curves and light up another desperate cigarette I guess my stinging eyes couldn’t tell you that I loved you."

40. "I gave wrong people the right pieces of me."

41. "I tried to forget but you grew roots around my ribcage and sprouted flowers just below my collarbones all day i pluck their petals but I have not yet ascertained whether you love me or not." - James Harron

42. "But I had loved him. I loved him longer and truer than I had anyone in my whole life and I would probably never love anyone that way again. Which to be honest was almost a relief." - Jenny Han, It’s Not Summer Without You

43. "Sometimes we expect more from others because we would be willing to do that much for them."

44. “Best way to not get your heart broken is to pretend you don’t have one”

45. "It was unfair that people could pretend to be one thing when they were really something else. That they would get you on their side and then do nothing but fail, and fail, and fail again. People should come with warnings, like cigarette packs: involvement would kill you over time." - Lauren Oliver

46. "If I had a flower for every time I thought of you… I could walk through my garden forever." - Alfred Tennyson

47. "Are you awake? Can I see you?"

48. " When I look in the mirror, I know I’m looking at someone who isn’t sure she deserves to be loved at all." - Nicholas Sparks

49. "She is the poem I never dared to write."

50. "I looked and looked at her, and I knew, as clearly as I know that I will die, that I loved her more than anything I had ever seen or imagined on earth. She could fade and wither - I didn’t care. I would still go mad with tenderness at the mere sight of her face." - Vladimir Nabokov

You feel different after reading those. Right?