“Sometimes thinking back on things is a mistake arising out of pride, but I guess you live inside a moment for years, move with it and feel it grow, and it sends out roots until it touches everything in sight.”

“I think you should learn, of course, and some days you must learn a great deal. But you should also have days when you allow what is already in you to swell up inside of you until it touches everything. And you can feel it inside you. If you never take time out to let that happen, then you just accumulate facts, and they begin to rattle around inside of you. You can make noise with them, but never really feel anything.”

E. L. Konigsburg (1930–2013) American writer and illustrator

“I'm out of sight, I'm out of mind
I'll do it all for you in time
And out of all these things I've done I think I love you better now.”

Ed Sheeran (1991) English singer-songwriter and producer

“Everybody feels these moments of sadness and moments of loss and sometimes I think everybody can relate to sitting alone and feeling like crap and a friend of yours comes up and starts like, you know, 'Come on, feel happy,' and you don't want that. Sometimes its alright to let yourself be upset about something and so that you can show yourself that regardless of how low you feel, you can always rise out of it, but not at the moment. And so the song ends with the lyric, 'I believe we all fall down' but I don't say 'but we we get back up'. It's just, sometimes you fall down and sometimes you fell low, and that's okay.”

Andrew Biersack (1990) American singer-songwriter

“If you really feel hatred for someone, and kind of send it their way, then it’s out of your system and in their hands. I always think it’s therapeutic.”

Marilyn Manson (1969) American rock musician and actor

“T is sweet, as year by year we lose
Friends out of sight, in faith to muse
How grows in Paradise our store.”

John Keble (1792–1866) English churchman and poet, a leader of the Oxford Movement

“But things worked out. Everything works out. Though sometimes they work out sideways.”

Knut Hamsun (1859–1952) Norwegian novelist and Nobel Prize recipient

“Send me out into another life
lord because this one is growing faint
I do not think it goes all the way”

W.S. Merwin (1927–2019) American poet

“Words are tricky. Sometimes you need them to bring out the hurt festering inside. If you don't, it turns gangrenous and kills you…. But sometimes words can break a feeling into pieces.”

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (1956) novelist, short story writer, poet, and essayist

“Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.”

W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1965) British playwright, novelist, short story writer