Feeling Sad Quotes - Page 4

• I too have known joy and sadness, and, on the whole, I prefer joy.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Sadness, Joy, Whole

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• Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

  Malcolm X

  Motivational, Change, Sad

  "Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements". Book edited by George Breitman, 1965.

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• Depression isn't just being a bit sad. It's feeling nothing. It's not wanting to be alive anymore.

  J. K. Rowling

  Depression, Feeling Down, Feelings

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• But I don't feel sad about it. Because Mother is dead. And because Mr. Shears isn't around anymore. So I would be feeling sad about something that isn't real and doesn't exist. And that would be stupid.

  Mark Haddon

  Mother, Real, Stupid

  Mark Haddon, Simon Stephens (2013). “Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time: The Play”, p.33, A&C Black

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• The older I get, the more I see there are these crevices in life where things fall in and you just can't reach them to pull them back out. So you can sit next to them and weep or you can get up and move forward. You have to stop worrying about who's not here and start worrying about who is.

  Alex Witchel

  Moving, Fall, Worry

  "The Spare Wife". Book by Alex Witchel, February 5, 2008.

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• You could ask for hugs if you were feeling sad or you'd hurt yourself, but when it happened spontaneously it made you feel warm inside.

  Mark Haddon

  Hurt, Feelings, Hug

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• First, accept sadness. Realize that without losing, winning isn't so great

  Alyssa Milano

  Sadness, Winning, Firsts

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

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• When I'm feeling sad, or lonely, and I don't know what I'm doing and I don't know where I'm going, I imagine the Cool Awesome Future Version of Myself just telling my present self, "It's okay. You just gotta grab that giraffe by the ears and ride it on out."

  Jenna Marbles

  Being Yourself, Lonely, Feelings

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• With any kind of mean girl, or anyone who bullies anyone, there's always a reason for it. There is that sadness in them or insecurity that makes them feel like they need to act out or hurt other people.

  Maiara Walsh

  Mean Girls, Hurt, Sadness

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• I would give anything, anything, to be the man to whom this has not happened. I can not accommodate myself to it. In a lifetime of trying, I can not accommodate myself to it. And now I will have to be that person forever.

  Robert Goolrick

  Men, Giving, Forever

  Robert Goolrick (2008). “The End of the World as We Know It: Scenes from a Life”, p.212, Algonquin Books

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• Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Sad, Death, Silence

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• I know I can feel bad, when I get in a bad mood, and the world can look so sad, only you make me feel good.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Sad, Feel Good, Looks

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• An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.

  Thomas Fuller

  Happiness, Sad, God

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 49, 1895.

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• After a while, though, even the deepest sorrow faltered, even the most penetrating despair lost its scalpel edge.

  Richard Matheson

  Sorrow, Despair, Lost

  Richard Matheson (1954). “I Am Legend”, Greenwich, Connecticut : Fawcett

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• Giving to other people makes me feel alive. Not my car or my house. Not what I look like in the mirror. When I give my time, when I can make someone smile after they were feeling sad.

  Mitch Albom

  Mirrors, People, Giving

  Mitch Albom (2007). “Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson”, p.128, Broadway Books

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• A tragedy need not have blood and death; it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy.

  Jean Racine

  Sadness, Blood, Tragedy

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• Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness.

  Italo Calvino

  Sad, Taken, Melancholy

  Italo Calvino (1988). “Six Memos for the Next Millennium”, p.19, Harvard University Press

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• It would be easy to become a victim of our circumstances and continue feeling sad, scared or angry; or instead, we could choose to deal with injustice humanely and break the chains of negative thoughts and energies, and not let ourselves sink into it.

  Erin Gruwell

  Feelings, Energy, Negative

  The Freedom Writers, Erin Gruwell (2007). “The Freedom Writers Diary (Movie Tie-in Edition): How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them”, p.14, Broadway Books

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• Trust Me. Life is not worth living feeling sad and down and lonely. Always be true to who you are.

  Jessie J

  Lonely, Feelings, Down And

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• Tell the truth through whichever veil comes to hand - but tell it. Resign yourself to the lifelong sadness that comes from never ­being satisfied.

  Zadie Smith

  Writing, Sadness, Hands

  "Zadie Smith's rules for writers" by Zadie Smith, www.theguardian.com. February 22, 2010.

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• If it doesn't work out there will never be any doubt that the pleasure was worth all the pain.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Sad, Pain, Work Out

  Song: The Weather Is Here, I Wish You Were Beautiful, Album: Coconut Telegraph, 1981

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• I know our feelings can be so unbearable that we employ ingenious strategies – unconscious strategies – to keep those feelings away. We do a feelings-swap, where we avoid feeling sad or lonely or afraid or inadequate, and feel angry instead. It can work the other way, too – sometimes you do need to feel angry, not inadequate; sometimes you do need to feel love and acceptance, and not the tragic drama of your life. It takes courage to feel the feeling – and not trade it on the feelings-exchange, or even transfer it altogether to another person.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Lonely, Drama, Acceptance

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• Every human walks around with a certain kind of sadness. They may not wear it on their sleeves, but it's there if you look deep.

  Taraji P. Henson

  Sad, Looks, May

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

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• There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, 'There now, hang on, you'll get over it.' Sadness is more or less like a head cold- with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Depression, Cancer, Sadness

  Barbara KingSolver (1988). “The Bean Trees: A Novel”, Harpercollins

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• 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

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