Alain de Botton Quotes About Sadness

Quotes about: Sadness

• Our sadness won’t be of the searing kind but more like a blend of joy and melancholy: joy at the perfection we see before us, melancholy at an awareness of how seldom we are sufficiently blessed to encounter anything of its kind. The flawless object throws into perspective the mediocrity that surrounds it. We are reminded of the way we would wish things always to be and of how incomplete our lives remain.

  Alain de Botton

  Blessed, Sadness, Perspective

• The largest part of what we call 'personality' is determined by how we've opted to defend ourselves against anxiety and sadness".

  Alain de Botton

  Sadness, Worry, Personality

• It is perhaps sad books that best console us when we are sad.

  Alain de Botton

  Book, Sadness, Console

• Most anger stems from feelings of weakness, sadness and fear: hard to remember when one is at the receiving end of its defiant roar.

  Alain de Botton

  Sadness, Feelings, Weakness

• The arrogance that says analysing the relationship between reasons and causes is more important than writing a philosophy of shyness or sadness or friendship drives me nuts. I can't accept that.

  Alain de Botton

  Philosophy, Writing, Sadness

  "Alain de Botton: a life in writing". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. January 20, 2012.

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