Being Sad Quotes - Page 2

• For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• Nostalgia is a way of remembering people and places and things, and wishing things hadn't changed. It has a sweetness to it. Sadness is just--well--being sad.

  Linda Lael Miller

  Sadness, People, Wish

  Linda Lael Miller (2011). “Creed's Honor”, p.199, HQN Books

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• Being part of the natural world reminds me that innocence isn't ever lost completely; we just need to maintain our goodness to regain it.

  Jewel

  Lost Friendship, Needs, World

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• If you're immortal, you can imagine being sad or grieving if a lover leaves you. But if everyone were immortal, then that leaving isn't necessarily forever. There's always a chance that you get them back somewhere down the road - you know, in 5, 10, 20,000 years. So I think that the urgency of the moment gets sapped.

  Todd May

  Thinking, Grieving, Years

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• For a human being, sadness is as powerful as terror. Sadness makes a warrior shed tears of blood.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Powerful, Sadness, Warrior

  Carlos Castaneda (2013). “Eagle's Gift”, p.143, Simon and Schuster

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• Singing about your sadness unburdens your soul. But the blues hollers shouted about more than being sad. They were also delivering messages in musical code. If the master was coming, you might sing a hidden warning to the other field hands . . . The blues could warn you what was coming. I could see the blues was about survival.

  B. B. King

  Sadness, Hands, Soul

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• You're the prettiest when you're happy. Don't use all your energy being sad.

  Burnell Taylor

  Energy, Use, Prettiest

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• There's a word in Japanese for being sad in the springtime - a whole word for just being sad - about how pretty the flowers are and how soon they're going to die.

  Sarah Ruhl

  Flower, Just Being, Springtime

  Sarah Ruhl (2010). “The Clean House and Other Plays”, p.301, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• "The best thing for being sad," replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. That's the only thing that never fails.

  T. H. White

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

  "The Book of Merlyn". Book by T. H. White, 1977.

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• Being sad with the right people is better than being happy with the wrong ones.

  Philippos Syrigos

  Inspirational, Life, People

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• It's sad when girls think they don't have anything going on except being pretty.

  Keri Russell

  Girl, Thinking, Being Pretty

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Be - don't try to become. Being is enlightenment, becoming is ignorance.

  Rajneesh

  Nice, Ignorance, Enlightenment

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• Sometimes life is about being sad and doing things anyway. Sometimes it's about being hurt and doing things anyway. The point isn't perfection. The point is doing it anyway.

  Chloe Neill

  Hurt, Healing, Perfection

  Chloe Neill (2012). “Biting Cold: A Chicagoland Vampires Novel”, p.97, Penguin

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• I have always been a softie, and I fight it with every fiber of my being.
  Sadly, my being's fibers need to hit the gym.

  Aisha Tyler

  Fighting, Needs, Fiber

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• Being is the great explainer.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Literature, Being Lonely

  1841 Journal entry, 26 Feb.

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• As one gets older being sad and miserable can become a bit of a habit. To counteract this, she suggests making a point of savoring such things as the tastiness of a piece of fruit, or other small things we might have been prone to overlook during our younger, busier days.

  Rumer Godden

  Age, Pieces, Might

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• When friends stop being frank and useful to each other, the whole world loses some of its radiance.

  Anatole Broyard

  Friendship, Advice, Radiance

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• You need to try to master the ability to feel sad without actually being sad.

  Laurie Anderson

  Trying, Needs, Masters

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• It is ridiculous that I have so many shoes I don't wear. I worry that they're sitting there, being sad.

  Graham Coxon

  Shoes, Worry, Sitting

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• I love playing football, being out on the pitch with a ball, and I will be a little sad when that ends.

  Dennis Bergkamp

  Sports, Football, Balls

  Interview with Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. April 18, 2004.

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• It's not a struggle, but sometimes when you're gone for a month or two, you start to miss your friends. I love acting so much that it fills that gap of being sad about not being able to see my friends.

  Willow Shields

  Struggle, Two, Missing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I first foreswore motherhood when I was about eight years old. ... [Children] were annoying. We were loud and sneaky and broke things. As an eight-year-old, maybe I was simply mortified by the prospect of being saddled with myself.

  Lionel Shriver

  Children, Motherhood, Years

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• Does Being Happy simply Create More Time, in the way that Being Sad, as we all know, slows time and thickens it, like cornstarch in a sauce?).

  Claire Messud

  Doe, Sauce, Way

  Claire Messud (2013). “The Woman Upstairs”, p.156, Vintage

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• Unfortunately, I think I'm going to be typecast in Hollywood as the kid who can cry. I don't like putting audiences through those emotional ups and downs. I don't want people to think Dana Hill is so depressing all she does is cry. But the parts are so good, I can't turn them down.

  Dana Hill

  Depressing, Kids, Emotional

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• I have learned to cry again and I think perhaps that means I am a human being again. Perhaps that at least. A piece of human being but, yes, a human being.

  William Styron

  Sadness, Mean, Thinking

  William Styron (1979). “Sophie's Choice”, Random House Large Print Publishing

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