Profound Sadness Quotes

• If you have a dog, you will most likely outlive it; to get a dog is to open yourself to profound joy and, prospectively, to equally profound sadness.

  Marjorie Garber

  Friendship, Dog, Sadness

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• I'm happy, I would say that I'm one of the happiest people I know but I've certainly had periods of profound sadness, depression and heartache and those are the kind of things that are interesting to me to write about.

  Richard Marx

  Depression, Sadness, Writing

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  You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Happiness, Sad, Being Happy

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.180, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Love cannot exist in peace, it will always come accompanied by agonies, ecstasies, intense joys and profound sadnesses.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, Sadness

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Sep 11, 2014

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• Profound sadness is always the result of an unhealthy condition of the body. ... We [should] say, 'I am sad; everything looks black to me; but external events are in no way responsible. It's my body that insists on reasoning. These are the opinions of my stomach.'

  Emile Chartier

  Sadness, Profound, Black

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• There’s a moment of profound sadness that can be dispelled only by summoning my anger.

  Libba Bray

  Sadness, Profound, Moments

  Libba Bray (2010). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.284, Simon and Schuster

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• I feel like I'm one of the happiest people I know.

  Hope Davis

  People, Heartache, Feels

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

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• Lincoln had internalized the pain of those around him-the wounded soldiers, the captured prisoners, the defeated Southerners. Little wonder that he was overwhelmed at times by a profound sadness that even his own resilient temperament could not dispel.

  Doris Kearns Goodwin

  Pain, Sadness, Profound

  Doris Kearns Goodwin (2006). “Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln”, p.724, Simon and Schuster

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• The angels in heaven covered their eyes with their hands and sobbed loudly, because that is what they always do when a man hits his wife. A profound sadness settled over the earth...God was silent in every language. The angels tried to dry their tears, but their handkerchiefs were so soaked through that is started raining even in the deserts.

  Guus Kuijer

  Rain, Sadness, Eye

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• The concept of 'Momism' is male nonsense. It is the refuge of a man seeking excuses for his own lack of virility. I have listened to many women in various countries, and I have never found a woman who willingly 'mothers' her husband. The very idea is repulsive to her. She wants to mother the children while they are young, but never their fathers. True, she may be forced into the role of mother by a man's weaknesses and childishness, and then she accepts the role with dignity and patience, or with anger and impatience, but always with a secret, profound sadness unexpressed and inexpressible.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Mother, Country, Children

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• Cuba laments and expresses its profound sadness for the loss of so many innocent lives and expresses our absolute rejection of acts of terrorism, wherever they may come from.

  Felipe Perez Roque

  Sadness, Loss, Profound

  "World mourns attack victims", www.cnn.com. September 12, 2001.

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