Sad Quotes - Page 16

• We couldn't imagine the emptiness of a creature who put a razor to her wrists and opened her veins, the emptiness and the calm.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Suicide, Veins, Razors

  Jeffrey Eugenides (1993). “The Virgin Suicides: A Novel”, p.243, Macmillan

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• So now I have confessed that he is thine, And I my self am mortgaged to thy will, My self I'll forfeit, so that other mine, Thou wilt restore to be my comfort still.

  William Shakespeare

  Self, Comfort, Forfeit

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.2874, Oxford University Press

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• The wind blows out of the gates of the day, The wind blows over the lonely of heart, And the lonely of heart is withered away.

  William Butler Yeats

  Lonely, Heart, Blow

  William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.542, Simon and Schuster

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• Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow firm there, firm as weeds among stones.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Education, Weed, Nature

  Charlotte Bronte (2013). “Jane Eyre”, p.426, Simon and Schuster

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• For example, justice is considered to mean equality, It does mean equality- but equality for those who are equal, and not for all.

  Aristotle

  Mean, Justice, Example

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• It is impossible for that man to despair who remembers that his Helper is omnipotent.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Religious, Men, Despair

  Jeremy Taylor, Charles Page Eden, Reginald Heber, Alexander Taylor (1856). “The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor ...: The rule and exercises of holy living and dying”, p.153

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• Beshrew that heart that makes my heart to groan For that deep wound it gives my friend and me; Is't not enough to torture me alone, But slave to slavery my sweet'st friend must be?

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Heart, Giving

  William Shakespeare (2013). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare In Plain and Simple English”, p.8759, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Affection is like bread, unnoticed till we starve, and then we dream of it, and sing of it, and paint it, when every urchin in the street has more than he can eat.

  Emily Dickinson

  Dream, Bread, Affection

  Emily Dickinson, Martha Dickinson Bianchi (1971). “The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.288, Biblo & Tannen Publishers

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• It is not, Dear, because I am alone, For I am lonelier when the rest are near, But that my place against your heart has grown Too dear to dream of when you are not here.

  E. Nesbit

  Dream, Heart, Dear

  Edith Nesbit, “The Heart Of Sadness”

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• I could have loved you once And said it But then you went away And when you came back Love was a forgotten word, Remember?

  Marilyn Monroe

  Back Love, Remember, Forgotten

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• How will it be when one of us alone Goes on that strange last journey of the soul? That certain search for an uncertain goal, That voyage on which no comradeship is known?

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Journey, Goal, Soul

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2012). “Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)”, p.236, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Love bade me welcome, but my soul drew back.

  George Herbert

  Soul, Welcome, Sadness

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• 'Yea and I beheld Sisyphus in strong torment, grasping a monstrous stone with both his hands. He was pressing thereat with hands and feet, and trying to roll the stone upward toward the brow of the hill. But oft as he was about to hurl it over the top, the weight would drive him back, so once again to the plain rolled the stone, the shameless thing. And he once more kept heaving and straining, and the sweat the while was pouring down his limbs, and the dust rose upwards from his head.

  Homer

  Strong, Dust, Hands

  Homer “The Odyssey of Homer: Several Versions”, Library of Alexandria

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• Thou art as tyrannous, so as thou art, As those whose beauties proudly make them cruel; For well thou know'st to my dear doting heart Thou art the fairest and most precious jewel.

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Jewels, Dear

  William Shakespeare (1838). “The Pictorial edition of the works of Shakspere, ed. by C. Knight. [8 vols., including a vol. entitled William Shakspere, by C. Knight].”

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• Thine eyes I love, and they as pitying me, Knowing thy heart torment me with disdain, Have put on black, and loving mourners be, Looking with pretty ruth upon my pain.

  William Shakespeare

  Pain, Heart, Eye

  William Shakespeare (1858). “Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems”, p.648

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• Live with it. You live with pleasure, don't you? Why don't you live with suffering completely? Can you live with it in the sense of not escaping from it? What takes place? Watch. The mind is very clear, sharp. It is faced with the fact. The very suffering transformed into passion is enormous. From that arises a mind that can never be hurt. Full stop. That is the secret.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Hurt, Passion, Escaping

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• Unwearied, and with springing steps elate, I had conveyed my wealth along the road. The empty sack proved now a heavier load: I was borne down beneath its worthless weight. I stumbled on, and knocked at Death's dark gate. There was no answer. Stung by sorrow's goad I forced my way into that grim abode, And laughed, and flung Life's empty sack to Fate.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Dark, Fate, Sorrow

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2012). “Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)”, p.203, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Sadness is also a kind of defence.

  Ivo Andric

  Sadness, Kind, Defence

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• All living souls welcome whatsoever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible.

  George Santayana

  Life, Soul, Welcome

  "Dialogues in Limbo" by George Santayana, (Ch. 3, p. 62), 1926.

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• They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Death, Suicide, Suicidal

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2014). “Suffering, Suicide and Immortality: Eight Essays from The Parerga”, p.25, Courier Corporation

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• Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem.

  Phil Donahue

  Wise, Suicide, Wisdom

  Attributed in "Psychology: Modules for Active Learning" by Dennis Coon, ‎John Mitterer, (p. 553), 2014.

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• It's an indication of how cynical our society has become that any kind of love story with a sad theme is automatically ridiculed as sentimental junk.

  Winona Ryder

  Cynical, Junk, Stories

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• If they tell you that she died of sleeping pills you must know that she died of a wasting grief, of a slow bleeding at the soul.

  Clifford Odets

  Suicide, Grief, Sleep

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• There is a joy in sorrow which none but a mourner can know.

  Jean Paul

  Joy, Sorrow, Knows

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• Giving up on life is easier than going through the hard times to find the good.

  Joseph Parker

  Suicide, Giving Up, Hard Times

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