Sadness Quotes - Page 22

• We had no choice. Sadness was a dangerous as panthers and bears. the wilderness needs your whole attention.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Choices, Needs, Attention

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• The only education in grief that any of us ever gets is a crash course. Until Caroline had died I had belonged to that other world, the place of innocence, and linear expectations, where I thught grief was a simple, wrenching realm of sadness and longing that graduallu receded. What that definition left out was the body blow that loss inflicts, as well as the temporary madness, and a range of less straightforward emotions shocking in their intensity.

  Gail Caldwell

  Grief, Loss, Blow

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• Is this what sadness is all about? Is it what comes over us when beautiful memories shatter in hindsight because the remembered happiness fed not just on actual circumstances but on a promise that was not kept?

  Bernhard Schlink

  Beautiful, Memories, Feeling Sad

  Bernhard Schlink (2011). “The Reader”, p.25, Hachette UK

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• Chronocanine Envy: Sadness experienced when one realized that, unlike one's dog, one cannot live only in the present tense. As Kierkegaard said, "Life must be lived forward.

  Douglas Coupland

  Dog, Said Life, Envy

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• Tears are words the heart can't express

  Gerard Way

  Sad, Heart, Sorrow

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• someone's sent a loving note in lines of returning geese and as the moon fills my western chamber as petals dance over the flowing stream again I think of you the two of us living a sadness apart a hurt that can't be removed yet when my gaze comes down my heart stays up

  Orson Scott Card

  Hurt, Heart, Moon

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.561, Macmillan

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• When you're an addict, you can go without feeling anything except drunk or stoned or hungry. Still, when you compare this to other feelings, to sadness, anger, fear, worry, despair, and depression, well, an addiction no longer looks so bad. It looks like a very viable option.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Drunk, Worry, Addiction

  "Choke". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, May 22, 2001.

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• He said, ‘The moment I began to love you was the moment when you saw your fiddle smashed on the ground, and you turned away from me and cried against your horse. Your sadness is one of the things that makes you beautiful to me. Don’t you see that? I understand it. It makes my own sadness less frightening.

  Kristin Cashore

  Beautiful, Horse, Love You

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.278, Penguin

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• this is one of my absolute favourite quotes its from the evernight series (stargazer) charity to Balthazar You remind me of too much. you remind me of what it felt like to be alive, to think of sunlight as something you could enjoy instead of something you could bare, to breath and have it change you, refresh you, awaken you, instead of just churning on and on some old useless habit that taunts you with what you use to be, to sigh and feel relief, to cry and let your sadness pass, instead of having it all bottled up inside of you forever and ever until you don't know who you are any more.

  Claudia Gray

  Thinking, Forever, Use

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• Maybe I've just read too many novels. In novels, alcoholics are always attractive and fuuny and charming and complex, like Sebastian Flyte or ABe North in Tender in the Night, and they're drinking because of a deep, unquenchable sadness of the soul, or the terrible legacy of the First World War, whereas I just get drunk because I'm thirsty, and I like the taste of lager.

  David Nicholls

  War, Drinking, Night

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

  Libba Bray

  Profound, Moments, Summoning

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

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• Were it possible for us to see further than our knowledge reaches, and yet a little way beyond the outworks of our divinings, perhaps we would endure our sadnesses with greater confidence than our joys. For they are the moments when something new has entered into us, something unknown; our feelings grow mute in shy perplexity, everything in us withdraws, a stillness comes, and the new, which no one knows, stands in the midst of it and is silent.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Joy, Feelings, Shy

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• He was swept with a sadness, a sadness deep and penetrating, leaving him desolate like someone washed up on a beach, a lone survivor in a world full of strangers.

  Robert Cormier

  Beach, Leaving, Survivor

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• I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad. It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare you're so relieved. I woke up into a nightmare.

  Ned Vizzini

  Life, Sad, Depression

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• Happiness in a tablet. This is our world. Prozac. Daxil. Xanax. Billions are spent to advertise such drugs. And billions are spent purchasing them. You don't even need a specific trauma, just 'general depression' is enough, or anxiety, as if sadness is as treatable as the common cold.

  Mitch Albom

  Xanax, Our World, Anxiety

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• Benvolio: What sadness lengthens Romeo's hours? Romeo: Not having that, which, having, makes them short.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Hours, Romeo Juliet

  Aidan Coleman, Shane Barnes, William Shakespeare (2008). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.30, Insight Publications

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• I wanted to write you a story about magic. I wanted rabbits appearing from hats. I wanted balloons lifting you into the sky. It turned out to be nothing but sadness, war, heartbreak. You never saw it, but there’s a garden inside me.

  Shane Jones

  War, Writing, Garden

  Shane Jones (2010). “Light Boxes: A Novel”, p.54, Penguin

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• She let out a laugh, and then she put her hand over her mouth, like she was angry at herself for forgetting her sadness.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Hands, Laughing, Mouths

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• She was trying to say something else; she was trying to say that the inability to articulate what one feels in any satisfactory way is one of our enduring tragedies. It wouldn't have been much, and it wouldn't have been useful, but it would have been something that reflected the gravity and the sadness inside her. Instead, she had snapped at him for being a loser. It was as if she were trying to find a handhold on the boulder of her feelings, and had merely ended up with grit under her nails.

  Nick Hornby

  Feelings, Tragedy, Trying

  Nick Hornby (2009). “Juliet, Naked”, p.224, Penguin UK

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• In an expression of true gratitude, sadness is conspicuous only by its absence

  Marcus Aurelius

  Gratitude, Expression, Absence

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• Hold the sadness and pain of samsara in your heart and at the same time the power and vision of the Great Eastern Sun. Then the warrior can make a proper cup of tea.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Pain, Heart, Warrior

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• The sadness of the world has different ways of getting to people, but it seems to succeed almost every time.

  Louis-Ferdinand Celine

  People, Way, Succeed

  "Journey to the End of the Night". Book by Louis-Ferdinand Celine, 1932.

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• The observations and encounters of a devotee of solitude and silence are at once less distinct and more penetrating than those of the sociable man; his thoughts are weightier, stranger, and never without a tinge of sadness. Images and perceptions which might otherwise be easily dispelled by a glance, a laugh, an exchange of comments, concern him unduly, they sink into mute depths, take on significance, become experiences, adventures, emotions.

  Thomas Mann

  Adventure, Men, Laughing

  Thomas Mann (1999). “Death in Venice, Tonio Kroger, and Other Writings: Thomas Mann”, p.115, A&C Black

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• Who wants that? I'd rather choose to fall in love and be hurt. Sometimes I can't even sleep because I love someone too much. And there's always sadness in our lives. It's that sad feeling that keeps us going. - Usagi/Sailor Moon

  Naoko Takeuchi

  Falling In Love, Hurt, Sleep

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• I don’t know how you can stand it. Over and over again, the same sadness—” He lifted her up. “The same ecstasy—” “The same fire that kills everything—” “The same passion that ignites it all again. You don’t know. You can’t remember how wonderful—” “I’ve seen it. I do know.

  Lauren Kate

  Passion, Fire, Remember

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