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“For there is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.”

Milan Kundera book Identity

The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), Part One: Lightness and Weight
Variant: For there is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.
Source: Identity

Pain, Feeling, Imagination

“People as old and powerful as he should never be given someone to love. For Anna he would destroy the world.”

Patricia Briggs book Fair Game

Source: Fair Game

Love, People, World

“They waited for life to happen to them. They waited for someone to save them. Or heal them. They did nothing for themselves.”

Louise Penny book Still Life

Source: Still Life

Life, Waiting

“There are a million things one might do with a block of wood. But what do you think might happen if someone, just once, believed in it?”

Suzanne Weyn book Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium

Source: Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium

Thinking

“She said she thought there were different ways of loving someone, and there were some she used to think were the most important, and now she had changed her mind.”

Jodi Lynn Anderson American children's writer

Source: Tiger Lily

Love, Way, Thinking, Change

“There’s a big difference between death threats and love letters–even if the person writing the death threats still claims to actually love you. Of course, considering I once tried to kill someone I loved, maybe I had no right to judge.”

Richelle Mead book Spirit Bound

Source: Spirit Bound

Love, Death, Personality

“Relationships evolve, just like people do. Just because you know someone doesn't mean you know everything about them.”

Sarah Dessen (1970) American writer

Source: Saint Anything

People

“I'll write this all down for you," I said. "I'll put it in a story." I don't know if that's what he wanted to ask me, but it's something everybody wants--for someone to see the hurt done to them and set it down like it matters.”

Sue Monk Kidd book The Secret Life of Bees

Source: The Secret Life of Bees

Hurt

“She wanted letters. Real letters written in his handwriting on actual paper that she could hold and keep and read whenever the mood struck her. They were proof, solid and tangible, that someone was thinking about her.”

Jenny Han book To All the Boys I've Loved Before

Source: To All the Boys I've Loved Before

Mood, Thinking, Reading

“We live, we die. Somewhere along the way, if we're lucky, we may find someone to help lighten the load.”

Justin Cronin The Passage

Source: The Passage

Way, Help

“So I'll do that, and I'll do my best and if my best isn't good enough, at least I will have done everything I could, everything that is in me. I don't have to try to be someone else, someone I could never be.”

Garth Nix book Abhorsen

Source: Abhorsen

“You want to be a better person? Go listen to someone you disagree with. don't argue with them just. It's remarkable what interesting things people will say if you take the time to not be a jerk.”

Brandon Sanderson book Alcatraz Versus the Knights of Crystallia

Source: Alcatraz Versus the Knights of Crystallia

People, Jerk, Time, Personality

“I'm tired of watching you be in love with someone else someone who will never love you back, not the way I do.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

Love, Way

“I filled my head with thoughts of the future, of infinite possibly. There's someone out there who will one day find me and fall in love with me and prove that all this waiting actually meant something….”

Perry Moore book Hero

Source: Hero

Love, Waiting, Future

“Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.”

Warren Buffett (1930) American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist

Statement of January 1991, as quoted in Of Permanent Value: The Story of Warren Buffett (2007) by Andrew Kilpatrick

Motivational, Inspirational, For Team, Success

“No one snaps our composure quite like someone we love.”

Khaled Hosseini (1965) novelist

Love

“You fall in and out of love, but when you really love someone… it's forever.”

Sophie Kinsella book Wedding Night

Source: Wedding Night

Love, Sad

“My favourite definition of an intellectual: 'Someone who has been educated beyond his/her intelligence.”

Arthur C. Clarke book 3001: The Final Odyssey

Chapter 19
Source: 3001: The Final Odyssey

Education, Intelligence

“Only someone who can say 'I love you' is capable of saying 'I forgive you.”

Paulo Coelho book Aleph

Source: Aleph

Love, Forgiveness

“That was the worst thing about having a relationship with someone, even a pretend relationship. You opened up, let someone in, and when it was over, they had all the ammunition they needed to completely destroy you.”

Sarra Manning (1950) British writer

Source: You Don't Have to Say You Love Me

“Obviously, if I was serious about having a relationship with someone long-term, the last people I would introduce him to would be my family.”

Chelsea Handler book Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea

Are You There Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea (2008)
Source: Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea

Family, People, Family

“… I think I know the secret to a long and happy marriage - just choose someone you can't live without.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Smooth Talking Stranger

Marriage, Secret, Thinking, Happiness

“I try to avoid having thoughts. They lead to other thoughts, and—if you're not careful—those lead to actions. Actions make you tired. I have this on rather good authority from someone who once read it in a book.”

Brandon Sanderson book Warbreaker

Lightsong the Bold
Warbreaker (2009)

Books, Reading

“Whenever she felt like crying, she would instead become angry—at someone else or at herself—which meant that it was rare for her to shed tears.”

Haruki Murakami book 1Q84

Source: 1Q84

Tear, Cry

“I don't know, there's something about you. Say there's an hourglass: the sand's about to run out. Someone like you can always be counted on to turn the thing over.”

Haruki Murakami book A Wild Sheep Chase

Source: A Wild Sheep Chase: A Novel (1982), Chapter 2: Sixteen Steps

“Loneliness had taught Harriet that there was always someone who understood - it was just so often that they were dead, and in a book.”

Eva Ibbotson A Company of Swans

Source: A Company of Swans

Books, Loneliness, Dead

“Nico studied his face – his sea-green eyes, his grin, his ruffled black hair. Somehow Percy Jackson seemed like a regular guy now, not a mythical figure. Not someone to idolize or crush on.”

Rick Riordan book The Blood of Olympus

Source: The Blood of Olympus

Guy, Study, Sea

“You know, when someone has been crying, something gets left in the air. It's not something you can see or smell, or feel. Or draw. But it's there.”

Gary D. Schmidt book Okay for Now

Source: Okay for Now

Feeling, Drawing, Cry

“Now you see,' said the turtle, drifting back into the pond, 'why it is useless to cry. Your tears do not wash away your sorrows. They feed someone else's joy. And that is why you must learn to swallow your own tears.”

Amy Tan The Joy Luck Club

Source: The Joy Luck Club

Tear, Learning, Joy, Cry

“I want someone who is fierce and will love me until death and knows that love is as strong as death, and be on my side forever and ever. I want someone who will destroy and be destroyed by me.”

Jeanette Winterson book Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

Source: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

Love, Death, Strong

“Because hate's just the flip side of love. Like heads and tails on a dime. If you don't know what it feels like to love someone, how would you know what hate is? One can't exist without the other.”

Jodi Picoult book Lone Wolf

Source: Lone Wolf

Love, Hate, Feeling

“At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough. No record of it needs to be kept and you don't need someone to share it with or tell it to. When that happens — that letting go — you let go because you can.”

Toni Morrison book Tar Baby

Tar Baby (1981)

Life, World, Beauty, Painting

“Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be obtained only by someone who is detached.”

Simone Weil (1909–1943) French philosopher, Christian mystic, and social activist

Reality

“Life is long, and sometimes cruel. Sometimes victims are needed. Someone has to take on that role. And human bodies are fragile, easily damaged. Cut them, and they bleed.”

Haruki Murakami book Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

Source: Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

Life

“To be unforgiving is like to drink poison and wait for someone else to die!!

Rev. TD Jakes (have I said how much I love ya!)”

T.D. Jakes (1957) American bishop

Love, Drink, Waiting

“If it is true that love is the pursuit in another of qualities we lack in ourselves, then in our love of someone from another culture, one ambition may be to weld ourselves more closely to values missing from our own culture.”

Alain de Botton (1969) Swiss writer

Source: The Art of Travel

Love

“Depending on the situation, sometimes you can know a person better in ten minutes than someone you have crossed paths with all your life.”

David Baldacci book The Simple Truth

Source: The Simple Truth

Life, Dependency, Personality

“Then I realized that we all think we might be terrible people. But we only reveal this before we ask someone to love us. It is a kind of undressing.”

Miranda July (1974) American performance artist, musician and writer

Source: The First Bad Man

Love, People, Thinking

“The only way someone can leave you is if you let them.”

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author

Source: Vanishing Acts

Way

“Love is messy. If you really love someone, you can't avoid the pain. People die, people leave, things change, but sometimes it all works”

Danielle Steel book Friends Forever

Source: Friends Forever

Love, Pain, People, Change

“The longer I live and the more experience I have of the world, the more I am convinced that, after all, the one thing that is most worth living for-and dying for, if need be-is the opportunity of making someone else more happy.”

Booker T. Washington (1856–1915) African-American educator, author, orator, and advisor

World, Happiness

“You can’t blame someone if they honestly don’t understand that their reality isn’t the same as yours.”

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author

Source: Leaving Time

Understanding, Reality

“It's like you have a plan and someone comes along and makes you want to change it all, but you still like your first plan, no matter how fantastic the second one makes you feel.”

Melina Marchetta (1965) Australian teen writer

Source: Saving Francesca

Feeling, Change

“Trust me, you can't play the game if you don't know the rules. And if you don't know the rules, someone's bound to get hurt.”

Alyson Nöel book Dark Flame

Source: Dark Flame

Game, Hurt

“And life goes on, which seems kind of strange and cruel when you're watching someone die.”

Melina Marchetta book On the Jellicoe Road

Source: On the Jellicoe Road

Life

“If you wrote something for which someone sent you a check, if you cashed the check and it didn't bounce, and if you then paid the light bill with the money, I consider you talented.”

Stephen King (1947) American author

Money, Light

“Delly lost her temper at Peeta over how he treated you. She got very squeaky. It was like someone stabbing a mouse with a fork repeatedly.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

“What if you were really meant to be with someone? But you kept messing about and having the Horn and so on and you lost them.”

Louise Rennison (1951–2016) British writer

Source: Then He Ate My Boy Entrancers

“It all ends in one of two ways: either someone gets eaten or something blows up.”

Jim Henson (1936–1990) American puppeteer

Way

“You can’t make someone feel good about themselves until you feel good about
yourself.”

Robin S. Sharma (1965) Canadian self help writer

Feeling

“No matter what you do, someone always knew you would.”

Ami McKay (1968) Canadian writer

Source: The Birth House

“Your best work involves timing. If someone wrote the best hip hop song of all time in the Middle Ages, he had bad timing.”

Scott Adams (1957) cartoonist, writer

Age, Time

“Most people have a rope that ties them to someone, and that rope can be short or it can be long. (Be long. Belong. Get it?) You don't know how long, though. It's not your choice.”

Nick Hornby book A Long Way Down

Source: A Long Way Down

People

“It'd be great to be so famous that if I murder someone, I will never, ever, ever serve any jail time, even if it's totally obvious to everyone that I did it.”

Mindy Kaling book Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

Source: Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

Time

“Maybe nobody has a right to tell anybody to shut up. Maybe this is how wars get started, because someone tells someone else to shut up, and then no one will apologize.”

Meg Cabot The Princess Diaries

Source: The Princess Diaries

War

“What was it like… to have someone who knew you would always return and who welcomed you with open arms?”

Kate DiCamillo The Magician's Elephant

Source: The Magician's Elephant

“When bad fortune occurs, the unresourceful, unimaginative man looks about him to attach the blame to someone else; the resolute accepts misfortune and endeavors to survive, mature, and improve because of it.”

Anne McCaffrey Moreta: Dragonlady of Pern

Source: Moreta: Dragonlady of Pern 1983

“The answer came to me before I'd even finished asking myself the question. I couldn't be Mason's girlfriend because when I imagined someone holding me and whispering dirty things in my ear, he had a Russian accent.”

Richelle Mead Vampire Academy

Source: Vampire Academy

Imagination, Question

“Everything Iʹd been taught about eluding someone came rushing back to my head. What I wanted to do more than anything was look around and see if I had a follower, but that would have definitely attracted attention.”

Richelle Mead book Last Sacrifice

Source: Last Sacrifice

“Laugh all you want. I know my own worth and don't need to prove it to someone who doesn't know theirs.”

Terry Goodkind Faith of the Fallen

Source: Faith of the Fallen

“The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he's dead.”

Bette Davis (1908–1989) film and television actress from the United States

Motivational, Graduation, Life, Dead

“Push something in someone’s face, and they will shove it away reflexively. Threaten to snatch it away from them, and sometimes they become convinced that it is what they want.”

Frances Hardinge (1973) British children's writer

Source: Fly Trap

“A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself”

Joseph Campbell (1904–1987) American mythologist, writer and lecturer

Variant: A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.

Life

“… if I have ever met someone without a single shadow on their heart, it was surely a child too young for speaking.”

Patrick Rothfuss book The Wise Man's Fear

Source: The Wise Man's Fear

Heart

“sarcasm and jokes were often the bottle in which clinical depressives sent out their most plangent screams for someone to care and help them.”

David Foster Wallace book Infinite Jest

Source: Infinite Jest

Help

“In Will's experience, when someone who ought to be afraid wasn't, the reason was rarely bravery. Usually it meant that they knew something you didn't.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

“Only fanatics — in religion as well as in politics — can find a meaning in someone else’s death.”

Elie Wiesel (1928–2016) writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, and Holocaust survivor

Source: The Judges

Death, Religion

“Where are we going?” Annabelle asked, resisting his hold on her wrist.
“To the house. If they’re not willing to be witnesses, then it seems I’ll have to debauch you in front of someone else.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Secrets of a Summer Night

Housing

“I used to think the worst feeling in the world is losing someone you love. But I was wrong the worst feeling in the world is the moment that you realize you've lost yourself.”

L.J. Smith (1965) American author

Love, World, Feeling, Thinking

“Maybe we all just wanted someone to believe in. That's all each of us wanted, and it should be so simple, but it never was simple.”

Deb Caletti (1963) American writer

Source: The Six Rules of Maybe

“Simon bristled. She wasn’t his Isabelle, not anymore. He wondered if she ever truly had been. Isabelle didn’t seem like the type of girl to belong to someone. It was one of the things he liked best about her.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Source: The Lost Herondale

Girl

“Tragedy is when someone ends up dead. Everything else is just a bump in the road. For the record, that was something Daddy used to say.”

Gabrielle Zevin (1977) American writer

Source: All These Things I've Done

Dead

“The cookie maker needs someone to look out for him.”

Kim Harrison (1966) Pseudonym

Source: A Perfect Blood

“I say 'no' to drugs. Whenever someone asks me for some of my drugs
I say, 'no.”

Rodney Dangerfield (1921–2004) American actor and comedian

“1425: When you really like someone, tell them. Sometimes you only get one chance.”

H. Jackson Brown, Jr. (1940) American writer

Source: The Complete Life's Little Instruction Book

Chance

“I realized how truly hard it was, really, to see someone you love change right before your eyes. Not only is it scary, it throws your balance off as well.”

Sarah Dessen book The Truth About Forever

Source: The Truth About Forever

Love, Change

“I'm telling you this for one reason and one reason only: No matter how sure you are of someone's love, it's always nice to hear it.”

Mike Gayle book Turning Thirty

Source: Turning Thirty

Love

“There is no sound more peaceful than rain on the roof, if you're safe asleep in someone else's house.”

Anne Tyler The Accidental Tourist

Source: The Accidental Tourist

Peace, Housing

“I was scared. Do you know what it's like to hold someone else's life in
your hands? It's like playing God. Can you think of anything scarier than
that?”

Sidney Sheldon book Rage of Angels

Source: Rage of Angels

Life, God, Thinking

“(J)ust because your version of normal isn't the same as someone else's version doesn't mean that there's anything wrong with you.”

John Boyne book The Terrible Thing That Happened to Barnaby Brocket

Source: The Terrible Thing That Happened to Barnaby Brocket

“I heard that the best way to get over someone is to get under someone else.”

Kerry Cohen (1970) American writer

Way

“Placing the blame or judgment on someone else leaves you powerless to change your experience; taking responsibility for your beliefs and judgments gives you the power to change them”

Byron Katie (1942) American spiritual writer

Change

“But, when the chips are down, its better to be furious with someone you love, or frightened for someone you love, than be put through the merciless horror of being ashamed of someone you love.”

James Baldwin (1924–1987) (1924-1987) writer from the United States

Love

“He sometimes wondered if she had become involved with him just so that she could cry in someone's arms. Maybe she can't cry alone, and that's why she needs me.”

Haruki Murakami book Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

Source: Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

Cry

“wherever the TV glows, there sits someone who isn't reading.”

John Irving (1942) American novelist and screenwriter

Reading

“At every wedding someone stays home.”

Sarah Dessen book That Summer

Source: That Summer (1996)

Home, Wedding

“When I see people stand fully in their truth, or when I see someone fall down, get back up, and say, “Damn. That really hurt, but this is important to me and I’m going in again”—my gut reaction is, “What a badass.”

Brené Brown (1965) US writer and professor

Source: Rising Strong

People, Truth, Hurt

“Talk to someone about themselves and they'll listen for hours.”

Dale Carnegie How to Win Friends and Influence People

Source: How to Win Friends and Influence People

“People change, no use getting sentimental about it. Move on, find someone else.”

David Nicholls book One Day

Source: One Day

People, Change

“It's okay to love someone who doesn't love you back, as long as they're worth loving.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Variant: It's all right to love someone who doesn't love you back, as long as they're worth you loving them. As long as they deserve it.
Source: Clockwork Angel

Love

“He understood for the first time that the world is not dumb at all, but merely waiting for someone to speak to it in a language it understands.”

Susanna Clarke book Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

Source: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

World, Understanding, Time, Waiting

“No one gets angry at a mathematician or a physicist whom he or she doesn't understand at all, or at someone who speaks a foreign language, but rather at someone who tampers with your own language, with this 'relation,' precisely, which is yours.”

Jacques Derrida (1930–2004) French philosopher (1930-2004)

Derrida Jacques, Elisabeth Weber (1995), Points...: Interviews, 1974-1994. p. 115

Understanding

“You don't just decide to have sex because you feel like having sex. You decide to have sex once you realize you're in love with someone and want to express that love physically.”

Sarah Mlynowski (1977) Novelist

Source: Ten Things We Did

Love, Sex, Feeling

“Show me a completely smooth operation and I'll show you someone who's covering mistakes. Real boats rock.”

Frank Herbert book Chapterhouse: Dune

Source: Chapterhouse: Dune

“it was odd, he thought, that a man could hate himself as though he were someone else.”

Jean Paul Sartre (1905–1980) French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and …

Hate

“I had someone at the Houston police station shoot me with heroin so I could do a story about it. The experience was a special kind of hell. I came out understanding full well how one could be addicted to 'smack,' and quickly.”

Dan Rather (1931) Journalist, Anchor

Hell, Understanding

“Someone else's loss is my chocolatey goodness”

Joss Whedon (1964) American director, writer, and producer for television and film

Loss

“How do you politely explain to someone that you had believed for years he was a moron as well as a Fool?
Fitz in Assassin's Apprentice”

Robin Hobb book Assassin's Apprentice

Source: Assassin's Apprentice

Fools

“It was their secret, a secret meant for just the two of them, and she'd never been able to imagine how it would sound coming from someone else. But, somehow, Logan made it sound just right.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Lucky One

Source: The Lucky One

Secret, Imagination

“It looked as if a night of dark intent was coming, and not only a night, an age. Someone had better be prepared for rage…”

Robert Frost (1874–1963) American poet

" Once by the Pacific http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/once-by-the-pacific-2/" (1928) General sources Context: You could not tell, and yet it looked as if The shore was lucky in being backed by cliff, The cliff in being backed by continent; It looked as if a night of dark intent Was coming, and not only a night, an age. Someone had better be prepared for rage. There would be more than ocean-water broken Before God's last Put out the Light was spoken.

Age, Rage, Night

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