“Fantasies always sound good, but they're no help when reality comes and shoves you to the ground. When it trips up your tongue and traps the right words in your head. When it leaves you to eat lunch by yourself.” EmotionFantasyImagineAnxietyLonelyFeelingDear Evan Hansen Book:Dear Evan Hansen Source: Dear Evan Hansen
“To the ground I fall. I can never stay aloft too long. Not when there's an ugly and heavy truth always dragging me back down.” LifeTruthDeathFallEmotionLiesFeelingDear Evan Hansen Book:Dear Evan Hansen Source: Dear Evan Hansen
“You're born and you keep getting older and grayer and sicker, and no matter what efforts you make to reverse the process, you die, every single time. To repeat: worse, worse, worse, and then death. I have a long way to go before the worst. This is only the beginning.” LifeDeathDieEndBeginningWorseCycleRepeatDear Evan Hansen Book:Dear Evan Hansen Source: Dear Evan Hansen
“If the pain is in you, it’s in you. It follows you everywhere. Can’t outrun it. Can’t erase it. Can’t push it away; it only comes back. The way I’ve been thinking, after all that’s happened, maybe there’s only one way to survive it. You have to let it in. Let it hurt you. And don’t wait. It’ll reach you eventually. Might as well be now.” Dear Evan Hansen Book:Dear Evan Hansen Source: Dear Evan Hansen
“Meh is basically a shoulder shrug, and that pretty much sums up the reaction I get from society at large.” Dear Evan Hansen Book:Dear Evan Hansen Source: Dear Evan Hansen
“The feeling of almost drowning is even worse than actually drowning. Actually drowning is peace. Almost drowning is pure pain.” Dear Evan Hansen Book:Dear Evan Hansen Source: Dear Evan Hansen
“Burning is the right way to paint it. You feel yourself getting so hot, day after day. Hotter and hotter. It gets to be too much. Even for stars. At some point they fizzle out or explode. Cease to be. But if you're looking up at the sky, you don't see it that way. You think those stars are still there. Some aren't. Some are already gone. Long gone. I guess, now, so am I.” LightDarkEmotionDepressionSuicideMetaphorFeelingDear Evan Hansen Book:Dear Evan Hansen Source: Dear Evan Hansen