Quote by Edwidge Danticat

“Fatigue meant nothing when you actually wanted to suffer.”

— Lev Grossman

“I saw everyone, a shifting sea of discomfort and sadness, each person carrying his own pain, each telling her own stories, no story more…

— Jennifer Brown

“I am weary of all our sad stories—not hearing them, but that we have these stories to tell, that there are so many.”

— Roxane Gay

“When the pain and sadness brought me to a breaking point, I would cry, and although my tears didn’t change the circumstances, they lightened…

— Terry Caffey

“I thought about how often this was needed in everyday life. How we feel lonely, sometimes to the point of tears, but we don't…

— Mitch Albom

“Tired, yes, but it was more than that. Watching everything unfold had lurched me from anger to disgust and finally sorrow, had reminded me…

— Kylie Ladd

“This afternoon the pain occasioned by my loneliness came upon me so piercingly and intensely that I became aware that the strength which I…

— Franz Kafka

“while one person can never really share the pain of another, they can so easily and so heedlessly add to it.”

— Twan Eng Tan

“Together we were something less, which felt like such a relief, to not be ourselves for a while.”

— Ben Marcus

“Pain speaks louder than words ever could. Like most things it serves as both messenger and a symbol.”

— Brandi L. Bates

“Although I do not need to be surrounded by others in order to feel alive, I do need some conversation and distraction.”

— Iain Pears

“And it is, by the way, from the presence of others that we really derive support in our dark hours of grief, and not…

— H. Rider Haggard