37 Of The Most Heartbreakingly Beautiful Lines In LiteratureSkip To ContentHomepageSign InSearch BuzzFeedSearch BuzzFeedlol Badge Feedwin Badge Feedtrending Badge FeedCalifornia residents can opt out of "sales" of personal data.Do Not Sell My Personal Information 2022 BuzzFeed, Inc PressRSSPrivacyConsent PreferencesUser TermsAd ChoicesHelpContactSitemapPosted on 13 Mar 2017 37 Of The Most Heartbreakingly Beautiful Lines In Literature "Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt." by Jamie JonesBuzzFeed StaffFacebookPinterestTwitterMailLink We asked members of the BuzzFeed Community to share some of the most heartbreaking quotes from literature Here are some of the responses 1 Getty Images / BuzzFeed Submitted by tinat46286a138 2. "We accept the love we think we deserve." – Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower Submitted by Carly Black, Facebook 3. "Till I die and after I die, and when I find my way out of the land of the dead, I'll drift about forever, all my atoms, till I find you again..." – Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass Submitted by lucykatherinep 4. “All children have to be deceived if they are to grow up without trauma.” ― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go Submitted by vickiz2 5 Getty Images / BuzzFeed Submitted by m457a37b78 6. “And I’d choose you; in a hundred lifetimes, in a hundred worlds, in any version of reality, I’d find you and I’d choose you.” ― Kiersten White, The Chaos of Stars Submitted by gsb1996 7. "Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt." – Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five Submitted by Josh Bailey, Facebook 8. “Only the sky above us do we hold in common.” – Alice Walker, The Color Purple Submitted by edaughterman 9 Getty Images / BuzzFeed Submitted by mkc3099 10. "The heart dies a slow death, shedding each hope like leaves until one day there are none. No hopes. Nothing remains." – Arthur Golden, Memoirs Of A Geisha Submitted by Kari Helmick, Facebook 11. "I don’t want you to miss all the things that someone else can give you." – Jojo Moyes, Me Before You Submitted by Karen Ha, Facebook 12. "Now I am quietly waiting for the catastrophe of my personality to seem beautiful again, and interesting, and modern." – Frank O’Hara, Meditations in an Emergency Submitted by christinar40c427443 13 Getty Images / BuzzFeed Submitted by mikluu 14. “You know how you let yourself think that everything will be all right if you can only get to a certain place or do a certain thing. But when you get there you find it's not that simple.” ― Richard Adams, Watership Down Submitted by Ericka Condon-Ericson, Facebook 15. “If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.” — Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar Submitted by Alexandra Danielle, Facebook 16. “Just... isn't giving up allowed sometimes? Isn't it okay to say, ‘This really hurts, so I’m going to stop trying’?” – Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl Submitted by Emma Neishloss, Facebook 17 Getty Images / BuzzFeed Submitted by Sheri Alexander, Facebook 18. “I drag myself out of nightmares each morning and find there’s no relief in waking.” – Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 Submitted by emmaw54 19. “Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.” – Mary Shelley, Frankenstein Submitted by Kathy Wall, Facebook 20. "'No,' said George. 'No, Lennie, I ain’t mad. I never been mad, and I ain’ now. That’s a thing I want ya to know.'" – John Steinbeck, Of Mice And Men Submitted by ntielen 21 Getty Images / BuzzFeed Submitted by Michelle Landahl, Facebook 22. “Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living.” – Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close Submitted by Lou Ritenour, Facebook 23. "It didn't matter in the end how old they had been, or that they were girls, but only that we had loved them, and they hadn't heard us calling, still do not hear us, calling them out of those rooms where they went to be alone for all time, alone in suicide, which is deeper than death, and where we will never find the pieces to put them back together." – Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides Submitted by Tasha Beans, Facebook 24. "I was weeping again, drunk on the impossible past." – Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita Submitted by juliem4c21db5b6 25 Getty Images / BuzzFeed Submitted by Amanda Ussery, Facebook 26. “May your eye go to the Sun, to the wind your soul.… You are all the colors in one, at full brightness.” – Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places Submitted by Jennifer Rodarte, Facebook 27. “I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it – to be fed so much love I couldn't take any more. Just once.” – Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood Submitted by tyfine 28. “It's easy to make friends if you let people laugh at you.” – Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon Submitted by tbrock 29 Getty Images / BuzzFeed Submitted by corinnes404c4f5c0 30. “If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even when the other half of the equation is gone?” – Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper Submitted by Libby Rose Louise Packham, Facebook 31. “I always did what someone else wanted me to do. I’ve always been someone’s daughter or mother or wife. I’ve never just been me.” – Cheryl Strayed, Wild Submitted by Brian Hammell, Facebook 32. “You’re beautiful, but you’re empty. No one could die for you.” – Antoine de Saint Exupéry, The Little Prince Submitted by lunivers 33 Getty Images / BuzzFeed Submitted by shreyadey 34. "I never wanted to go away, and the hard part now is the leaving you all. I'm not afraid, but it seems as if I should be homesick for you even in heaven." – Louisa May Alcott, Little Women Submitted by Kara Schmid, Facebook 35. “I’m just so thankful for our little infinity.” – John Green, The Fault in Our Stars Submitted by gurlean 36. “It's hard to let go anything we love. We live in a world which teaches us to clutch. But when we clutch we're left with a fistful of ashes.” – Madeleine L'Engle, A Ring of Endless Light Submitted by Sarah Bonse, Facebook 37 Getty Images / BuzzFeed Submitted by helloitsreisha Want to be featured in similar BuzzFeed posts Follow the BuzzFeed Community on Facebook and Twitter Share This ArticleFacebookPinterestTwitterMailLink Want great book recommendations in your inbox every week Sign up for the BuzzFeed Books newsletter This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.