Sadness Quotes - Page 15

• Love hurts, love scars, love wounds, and mars.

  Roy Orbison

  Short Love, Hurt, Wounds And Scars

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• As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.

  Blaise Pascal

  Taken, Ignorance, Fighting

  Blaise Pascal (2007). “Thoughts”, p.63, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I talk to God but the sky is empty.

  Sylvia Plath

  Sad, God, Faith

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams: and other prose writings”, p.162, Faber & Faber

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• In a world where there is so much sadness and so much to be afraid of, good things do happen to people. Romance is still something we can find even if we're not consciously looking for it.

  Kathleen Quinlan

  People, Romance, World

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

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• Part of me is drawn to the nature of sadness because I think life is sad, and sadness is not something that should be avoided or denied. It's a fact of life, like contradictions are.

  Robert Redford

  Thinking, Facts, Life Is

  "American Dreamer". Interview with Suzie Mackenzie, www.theguardian.com. August 14, 2004.

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• It is such a secret place, the land of tears.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Broken Heart, Hard Times, Secret Places

  Antoine De Saint-Exupery (2015). “The Little Prince: "Illustrated Edition"”, p.38, eKitap Projesi

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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, Sad, Soul

  "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

  Sad, Death, Suicide

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

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• I actually think sadness and darkness can be very beautiful and healing.

  Duncan Sheik

  Beautiful, Healing, Thinking

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• We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Happiness, Song, Laughter

  "To a Skylark" l. 88 (1819)

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• My father's death, my move, and my frightening and difficult delivery created a tremendous amount of stress, pain, and sadness for me. I was practically devastated beyond recovery.

  Brooke Shields

  Pain, Father, Stress

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• I think ethics is always there; it's not always a very thoughtful or reflective ethics.

  Peter Singer

  Thoughtful, Thinking, Ethics

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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, Hands, Feeling Sad

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

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• A lot of me is very up, and you have to have light and shade. They are both important and you have to be able to balance them. You have to admit that sadness is part of you and that it enriches you. I use it in my work.

  Imelda Staunton

  Light, Balance, Important

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• It is so friendly so simply friendly and though inevitable not a sadness and though occurring not a shock.

  Gertrude Stein

  Friendly, Literature, Shock

  Gertrude Stein (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of Gertrude Stein (Illustrated)”, p.6132, Delphi Classics

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• The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Sad, Loneliness, House

  Robert Louis Stevenson (1999). “The Lantern-Bearers and Other Essays”, p.96, Cooper Square Press

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• The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.

  Jonathan Swift

  Success, Congratulations, Literature

  Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott (1814). “The Works of Jonathan Swift: Miscellaneous essays”, p.436

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• I've never thought about songwriting as a weapon. I've only thought about it as a way to help me get through love and loss and sadness and loneliness and growing up.

  Taylor Swift

  Growing Up, Loneliness, Loss

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• 37 is a lumpy number, a bit like porridge. Six is very small and dark and cold, and whenever I was little trying to understand what sadness is I would imagine myself inside a number six and having that experience of cold and darkness. Similarly, number four is a shy number.

  Daniel Tammet

  Dark, Numbers, Trying

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• In my deepest parts of sadness, I'm always making a joke or being sarcastic.

  Lea Thompson

  Sarcastic, Jokes, Sarcastic Humor

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• The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Sad, Men, Despair

  Walden ch. 1 (1854)

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• If misery loves company, misery has company enough.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Love, Sad, Disease

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.56, Courier Corporation

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• Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.

  Leon Trotsky

  Life, Fall, Frustration

  "Trotzky's Diary in Exile - 1935". Book by Leon Trotsky, 1958.

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• God is in the sadness and the laughter, in the bitter and the sweet.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Sweet, Laughter, Bitter

  Neale Donald Walsch (1996). “Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.53, Penguin

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• I had often sought for the peace there is in Christ, but I could not seem to find the freedom I desired. A terrible sadness rested on my heart. I could not think of anything I had done to cause me to feel sad; but it seemed to me that I was not good enough to enter Heaven, that such a thing would be altogether too much for me to expect.

  Ellen G. White

  Heart, Thinking, Not Good Enough

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