Ashley > Ashley's Quotes

Showing 1-30 of 47

« previous 1 2 next »

like

#1

“And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain ways, they can't ever be fixed, and this is something nobody ever tells you when you are young and it never fails to surprise you as you grow older as you see the people in your life break one by one. You wonder when your turn is going to be, or if it's already happened.”
― Douglas Coupland, Life After God

tags: life-lessons

2475 likes

like

#2

“We are all alone, trapped in these bodies and our own minds, and whatever company we have in this life is only fleeting and superficial.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

979 likes

like

#3

“Each of us has a deep and profound desire to be seen, to be acknowledged, and to be respected in our totality. There is a unique kind of pain in being unseen. It's a pain that cuts deep by diminishing and disempowering, and whether done intentionally or unintentionally, it's an experience that leaves real scars.”
― Sarah McBride, Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality

10 likes

like

#4

“The thought that I might kill myself formed in my mind coolly as a tree or a flower.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

tags: bell-jar, death, suicide, sylvia-plath, thought

596 likes

like

#5

“Looking at his face, it sometimes came to her that all women had been cursed from the cradle; all, in one fashion or another, being given the same cruel destiny, born to suffer the weight of men. Frank claimed that she got it all wrong side up: it was men who suffered because they had to put up with the ways of women—and this from the time that they were born until the day they died.”
― James Baldwin, Go Tell It on the Mountain

20 likes

like

#6

“I make myself wood. I say to myself, Celie, you a tree. That’s how come I know trees fear man.”
― Alice Walker, The Color Purple

4 likes

like

#7

“It felt like the world had divided into two different types of people, those who had felt pain and those who had yet to.”
― Michelle Zauner, Crying in H Mart

tags: grief-and-loss

456 likes

like

#8

“It’s strange how many ways there are to miss someone. You miss the things they did and who they were, but you also miss who you were to them. The way everything you said and did was beautiful or entertaining or important. How much you mattered.”
― Robin Roe, A List of Cages

3 likes

like

#9

“We think we owe everyone something. We think we need to explain ourselves and we think too much about thinking too much.
And it is funny how we think we know it all, but the reality is this: everything we think that brings us together is everything that sets us further apart. And over thinking of how different we all are; is failing to recognize of how connected we all could really be.”
― Robert M. Drake, Black Butterfly

tags: life-lessons, life-quotes, poems

16 likes

like

#10

“The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.”
― William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

tags: opinions, thought

671 likes

like

#11

“If you want to identify me, ask me not where I live, or what I like to eat, or how I comb my hair, but ask me what I am living for, in detail, ask me what I think is keeping me from living fully for the thing I want to live for.”
― Thomas Merton

tags: destiny, life, purpose

788 likes

like

#12

“Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.”
― Rumi

3810 likes

like

#13

“Death is the easy part, the hard part is living and knowing you could be so much more then you’re willing to be.”
― robert m drake

tags: happyquotes, hope, inspirational, inspirationalquotes, inspired, instadaily, instaquote, lovequotes, pinquotes, poems, poetry, quote, quoteoftheday, quotes, relationships, rmdrake, sadquotes, sayings, spokenword, tattoo, typewriter, vsco, writer, writing

398 likes

like

#14

“Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let the pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place”
― Iain Thomas, I Wrote This For You

tags: inspirational

633 likes

like

#15

“Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

tags: coldness, depression, happiness, life, sad, sadness, sorrow

12184 likes

like

#16

“Talking just adds to the noise pollution in the world. If we were really serious about going green, then maybe we'd all just be quiet.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Last Night I Sang to the Monster

44 likes

like

#17

“I've done it all before, I tell myself, and I can do it again. Trust is the strongest weapon.”
― Lauren DeStefano, Fever

61 likes

like

#18

“I don't like remembering.
Remembering makes me feel things.
I don't like to feel things.

I'm thinking I could spend the rest of my life becoming an expert at forgetting”
― Benjamin Alire Saenz, Last Night I Sang to the Monster

154 likes

like

#19

“But there’s no such thing as free. There are only different and more horrible ways to be enslaved.”
― Lauren DeStefano, Fever

tags: free, slavery

61 likes

like

#20

“I'm suddenly finding it hard to know the difference between nightmares and consciousness.”
― Lauren DeStefano, Fever

tags: nightmares, reality

27 likes

like

#21

“The thing about hope is that it doesn't go away even when it serves no purpose.”
― Lauren DeStefano, Fever

21 likes

like

#22

“Nothing worth doing is easy," frank said. "Especially not in the beginning. But I'm not about to give up.”
― Morgan Matson, Since You've Been Gone

tags: attitude, book-boyfriend, hard-work, honesty, inspirational, life

97 likes

like

#23

“Now I think it’s one of the most useless questions an adult can ask a child—What do you want to be when you grow up? As if growing up is finite. As if at some point you become something and that’s the end.”
― Michelle Obama, Becoming

1291 likes

like

#24

“Growing fourteen inches in a summer is easy. It's growing out of a label that's hard.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

51 likes

like

#25

“My soul is full of longing
for the secret of the sea,
and the heart of the great ocean
sends a thrilling pulse through me.”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

tags: sea

765 likes

like

#26

“Be still, sad heart! and cease repining;
Behind the clouds is the sun still shining;
Thy fate is the common fate of all,
Into each life some rain must fall”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Ballads and Other Poems

tags: heart, life, poetry, sorrow

635 likes

like

#27

“It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong.”
― Longfellow

tags: accuracy

190 likes

like

#28

“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

tags: writing

7979 likes

like

#29

“People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living weren't already complicated enough.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

2818 likes

like

#30

“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: helping-others, make-a-difference, purpose, purpose-of-life

4258 likes

« previous 1 2 next »

All Quotes

Tags From Ashley’s Quotes

life-lessons
bell-jar
death
suicide
sylvia-plath
thought
grief-and-loss
life-quotes
poems
opinions
destiny
life
purpose
happyquotes
hope
inspirational
inspirationalquotes
inspired
instadaily
instaquote
lovequotes
pinquotes
poetry
quote
quoteoftheday
quotes
relationships
rmdrake
sadquotes
sayings
spokenword
tattoo
typewriter
vsco
writer
writing
coldness
depression
happiness
sad
sadness
sorrow
free
slavery
nightmares
reality
attitude
book-boyfriend
hard-work
honesty
sea
heart
accuracy
helping-others
make-a-difference
purpose-of-life