Diary-entry Quote by Hélène Berr

“Sometimes it strengthens a marriage to see the worst and find the sweetness of happiness later.”

— Christine Merrill

“As I looked at [my future husband] I realized that, while I would never be my mother nor have her life, the lesson she…

— Anna Quindlen

“...you can take comfort that despair is the worst thing he can spring on you. Things can appear to grow worse, but if you…

— Bodie Thoene

“And I kind of realized that his pain is real or whatever, but his pain isn’t over the loss of me as an individual.…

— L.T. Vargus

“For some people, particularly women, marriage-even an unhappy one such as this-is an escape from even greater unhappiness.”

— Khaled Hosseini

“We all share the sadness of loss. Unless we never love. And that would be an even greater loss.”

— Juliet Ashton

“Well, it is a good thing he died young. Most men don’t have the good sense to know when to quit this earth. At…

— Karen Hawkins

“Nothing is more tragic than loving someone to the depths of your soul and knowing they cannot and will not ever love you back.”

— Rick Riordan

“There is love and there is sorrow, but the gain outweighs the loss, if you will make it so.”

— Virginia Nicholson

“I won't waste your time with the injuries of my childhood, with my loneliness, or the fear and sadness of the years I spent…

— Nicole Krauss

“You are in despair, because you wish to live for your own happiness.”

— Leo Tolstoy

“If you but knew the meaning of His Love, hope and despair would be impossible.”

— Foundation for Inner Peace