#breakup

All my joys resemble more a momentary intoxication than the real gold of happiness. It was all but an illusion. ↗

— Richard von Krafft-Ebing

#depair #depression #happiness #illusion #joy

I was clinging to all that had been and, in an ideal world, all that we had hoped for. He, he wanted out. ↗

— Freya North

#breakups

Yes, you are right! I am your leftover trash. I hope you know a bum got to eat too. I believe you were one when I met you. ↗

— Touaxia Vang

#hate #leftovers #relationship #breakups

Wait!" he yelled. I didn't turn around, I walked faster. Then I heard him slam his fist on the hood of his car. I almost stopped. Maybe I would have if he'd followed me. But he didn't. He got in his car and he left, just like he said he would. ↗

— Jenny Han

#conrad #jerk #breakups

remember you are not you, now. you are you a year from now. how does that woman walk? she is not sick or sad. doesn’t even remember today. has been to Europe. what song is she humming? now. right now. that’s it. ↗

— Marty McConnell

#moving-on #strength #breakups

a) he's late. b) he's acting like an asshole and blowing me off. c)he's gotten into a horrible car crash that's left dead. The most likely answer is A. (We went to prom together, and the limo had to wait in his driveway for half an hour. At the end of the night, we got charged for an extra hour. He- read: his parents- paid for it, but still.) ↗

— Lauren Barnholdt

#breakup #danger #ex #road-trip #breakups

If your heart is broken, do you have a phantom heart? ↗

— Damon Suede

#gay-romance #longing #breakups

But every spiteful word she ever wrote him was effortless love clenched in her fists. Her heart screaming for stability in this fiery game of desire. ↗

— Coco J. Ginger

#breakup #desire #jamie-weise #love #love-story

But now the other half of "us" was gone and, lying there in my shadowy room, I'd be struck with this realization that I had no clue how to be just me again. ↗

— Jennifer Brown

#death-of-a-loved-one #me #self #death

Indeed, for almost 10 years, Moscow had to carry on a war unsupportable by the government, a conflict that brought about the demoralization and finally the breakup of the Soviet empire. ↗

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

#almost #breakup #brought #carry #conflict