Adversity Quotes

"And they can’t understand, what hurts more—missing the other person, or pretending not to."

- Khadija Rupa

"My heart no longer felt as if it belonged to me. It now felt as it had been stolen, torn from my chest by someone who wanted no part of it."

- Meredith Taylor, “Churning Water”

"There is an ocean of silence between us… and I am drowning in it."

- Ranata Suzuki

"Thinking of you is a poison I drink often."

- Atticus

"This time I wouldn’t forget him, because I couldn’t ever forgive him—for breaking my heart twice."

- James Patterson, “Sundays at Tiffany’s”

"Loving you was like going to war; I never came back the same."

- Warsan Shire

"There is something bleak and barren about a world that is missing the person who knows you best."

- Jodi Piccoult, The Book of Two Ways

"I wish I were a little girl again because skinned knees are easier to fix than a broken heart."

- Julia Roberts

"Back then, in those first days, I was so alone that every day was like eating my own heart."

- Junot Diaz, This is How You Lose Her

"The shattering of a heart when being broken is the loudest quiet ever."

- Carroll Bryant

"I’d rather have a broken arm than a broken heart."

- Christie Brinkley

"Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated."

- Alphonse de Lamartine

"Love hurts worse than getting slammed by a 250-pound linebacker."

- Miranda Kenneally

"Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn’t it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up."

- Neil Gaiman

"Sometimes it lasts in love, but sometimes it hurts instead."

- Adele

"Un-break my heart. Say you'll love me again. Undo this hurt you caused when you walked out the door and walked out of my life."

- Toni Braxton

"Every heart has its secret sorrows."

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it."

- Henny Youngman

"If kids come to us from strong, healthy, functioning families, it makes our job easier. Our job is more critical if they do not come to us from strong, healthy, functioning families."

- Barbara Colorose

"I'm at an age when my back goes out more than I do."

- Phyllis Diller

"Clutter robs us of life. It robs us socially, when we’re too embarrassed to have people over. It robs us spiritually, because we can’t be at peace in a cluttered home. And it robs us psychologically, by stealing our ability to feel motivated in our space."

- Peter Walsh

"Clutter is a physical manifestation of fear that cripples our ability to grow."

- H.G. Chissell

""I hate housework. You make the beds, you wash the dishes and six months later you have to start all over again.""

- Joan Rivers

""Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity.""

- Erma Bombeck

""I've buried a lot of my laundry in the back yard.""

- Phyllis Diller

"The ache for home lives in all of us."

- Maya Angelou

"The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned."

- Maya Angelou

"The loss of love is not nearly as painful as our resistance to accepting it."

"Sorrow makes us all children again."

"Thursday mornings are like a game of Jenga. You're trying to keep it all together until Friday, but sometimes it all falls apart."