Writers don’t only offer a respite from reality with their imagined stories. They can also articulate words that can balm a grieving heart. How many of us have turned to literature when real-life solutions seem too cliché and more discouraging?
The Xlibris Author Advice shares some of these quotes from literary and art-inspired online magazine Artparasites. These are from notable writers whose words ring timeless. With these empowering messages, we hope you’ll endure whatever heartaches you’re going through.
Mark Twain
Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.
Pablo Neruda
Well, now
If little by little you stop loving me
I shall stop loving you
Little by little
If suddenly you forget me
Do not look for me
For I shall already have forgotten you
If you think it long and mad the wind of banners that passes through my life
And you decide to leave me at the shore of the heart where I have roots
Remember
That on that day, at that hour, I shall lift my arms
And my roots will set off to seek another land
Sylvia Plath
Perhaps someday I’ll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.
Henry Rollins
Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on.
Sara Teasdale
It is strange how often a heart must be broken
Before the years can make it wise.
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I am embarking on a great journey with the hopes that it will lead me to not only financial independence and spiritual maturity and growth as well. During the times of my youth reading and writing brought me solace and security. I hope and pray that one day God will allow me the opportunity to make a lucrative career from doing what gives me a purpose in my life and that is writing.