Happiness And Sadness Quotes - Page 2

• There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.

  Dante Alighieri

  Inspirational, Happiness, Sad

  Dante Alighieri, Stanley Lombardo (2009). “Inferno”, p.26, Hackett Publishing

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• For the first time in longer than I can remember, I feel peaceful. Not happy. Not sad. Not anxious. Not horny. Just all the higher parts of my brain closing up shop. The cerebral cortex. The cerebellum. That's where my problem is. I'm now simplifying myself. Somewhere balanced in the perfect middle between happiness and sadness. Because sponges never have a bad day.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Sadness, Bad Day, Closing Up

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• I oscillate between life and death, happiness and sadness, good and evil.

  Alexander McQueen

  Sadness, Life And Death, Evil

  "Alexander McQueen’s 'Savage Beauty' At Metropolitan Museum Of Art (PHOTOS)" by Samantha Critchell, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 3, 2011.

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• One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often.

  Erich Fromm

  Sadness, Compassion, Curiosity

  ABC TV, May 25, 1958.

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• The big difference between human happiness and sadness? Thirty-seven freakin' vibrations.

  Michael Tilson Thomas

  Motivation, Inspiration, Sadness

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• There's such a thing as too much happiness and sadness. What I'm after is contentment.

  Ray Charles

  Sadness, Contentment, Too Much

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• You can never maintain just pure happiness. In my life, I want full emotion. I want equal parts happiness and sadness.

  Derek Cianfrance

  Sadness, Want, Emotion

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• The sociological evidence of the contagion of happiness and sadness suggests something quite remarkable: of all your relationships, of all the people capable of making you happiest or irritating you the most, those who have the greatest effect on your mood and even your state of health are those closest to hand.

  Lynne McTaggart

  Inspirational, Sadness, Hands

  Lynne McTaggart (2012). “The Bond: How to Fix Your Falling-Down World”, p.98, Simon and Schuster

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