quotes that broke me starters
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quotes taken from random sources or tiktok. i claim no ownership whatsoever.
❛ i’m supposed to be the one who protects you from monsters. i’m not supposed to be one. ❜
❛ if i could make a deal with god, and i’d get him to swap our places. ❜
❛ no one heard our screams for a long time. ❜
❛ i know so many last words. but i’ll never know hers. ❜
❛ there is a home for every departed thing. ❜
❛ it reminded me that i will never truly know you. ❜
❛ i also buried a part of myself alongside them. ❜
❛ after you died i could no longer hold a funeral. so my life became the funeral. ❜
❛ you don’t have to be awake to cry. ❜
❛ forgive me, for all the things i did. but mostly the things i didn’t do. ❜
❛ the human eye is the loneliest creation of all. ❜
❛ fairness is for happy people. ❜
❛ the things we lost will always be heavier than the things that stayed. ❜
❛ perhaps it is the greater grief, to remain on the earth when another is gone. ❜
❛ you stain the pages with yourself. ❜
❛ tears will not wash away the sorrow. ❜
❛ beautiful things grow a certain height and then they fall and fade off. ❜
❛ who in all these centuries has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most? ❜
❛ i have scars on my hands from touching certain people ❜
❛ despite everything, i believe that people are really good at heart. ❜
❛ you tried to change, didn’t you? ❜
❛ you can’t make homes out of people. someone should have taught you that. ❜
❛ i hid my deepest feelings so well, i forgot where i placed them. ❜
❛ we have no scar to show for happiness. we learn so little from peace. ❜
❛ i didn’t leave because i stopped loving you. i left because the longer i stayed, the less i loved myself. ❜
❛ at every moment in our life, we have one foot in a fairytale & the other in the abyss. ❜
❛ there are too many sad eyes on happy faces. ❜
❛ it’s strange, i felt less lonely when i didn’t know you. ❜
❛ things change, friends leave. life doesn’t stop for anybody. ❜
❛ it takes a lifetime to die, and no time at all. ❜
❛ i am deathly afraid of almosts. of coming close to what i want and then falling just a little short. ❜
❛ i felt your absence. ❜
❛ what do we do now, now that we are happy? ❜
❛ you honestly thought anybody would love you? purely and truly love you? ❜
❛ don’t stop looking. he deserves to know someone saw his end, that someone noticed him. ❜
❛ i can bear my pain so long as it has meaning. ❜
❛ i dont have a single friend - not one. ❜
❛ i’ve had more than enough pain in my life, what’s a little more going to do? ❜
❛ it would have been you if i met you first. ❜
❛ i really thought he was going to be my forever. ❜
❛ maybe in the next life it would work. ❜
❛ in spite of everything, you’re still you. ❜
❛ the dead have it easy. ❜
❛ there’s an ocean of silence between us, and I’m drowning. ❜
❛ there have been countless times in my life when i thought i’d be better off dead. ❜
❛ what on earth… have i become? ❜
❛ don’t look at me! i don’t … i don’t want you seeing me like this. ❜
❛ i wish i could’ve been like you. ❜
❛ your fate was sweeping you away, like a flood. ❜
❛ the future should know the mistakes we made. ❜
❛ of course you have. you feel guilt. you want redemption. ❜
❛ i’m here because you can’t accept what you’ve done. it broke you. ❜
❛ even now, after all you’ve done, you can still go home. lucky you . ❜
❛ you’re all that’s left, and we can’t live this lie forever. ❜
❛ prometheus gave us light, and warmth, and eternal damnation. ❜
❛ take a gamble that love exists, and do a loving act. ❜
❛ i know i ruined your life. i suffer for it every day. ❜
❛ don’t let yourself get killed for… for pride. i’ve seen it kill too many folk. ❜
❛ you and me, we ain’t decent… but those folk… they were. ❜
❛ we’re more ghosts than people. ❜
❛ despite my best efforts to the contrary… it turns out i’ve won. ❜
❛ i gave you all i had … i did. ❜
❛ this whole time, I’ve blamed myself for that decision. ❜
❛ do you think even the worst person can change…? That everybody can be a good person, if they just try? ❜
❛ i don’t want to break their hearts all over again. it’s better if they never see me. ❜
❛ please leave me alone. i can’t come back. i just … can’t, okay? ❜
❛ no matter the struggles or hardships you faced… you strived to do the right thing, you refused to hurt anyone. ❜
❛ people like you don’t ever want to be happy. ❜
❛ i don’t want to let go. i’m not ready to say goodbye yet. ❜
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