Sadness Quotes - Page 23

• Melancholy suicide. - This is connected with a general state of extreme depression and exaggerated sadness, causing the patient no longer to realize sanely the bonds which connect him with people and things about him. Pleasures no longer attract.

  Emile Durkheim

  Suicide, People, Patient

  John A. Spaulding, George Simpson, Emile Durkheim (2010). “Suicide”, p.63, Simon and Schuster

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• Now even if I die, no one will be so grieved as to do himself bodily harm.

  Osamu Dazai

  Believe, Thinking, Indulge In

  "The Setting Sun".

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• My life has been like all the lives, long and hard and full of sadness and confusion and horror, a frightening, difficult dream punctuated by brief moments of joy. And as is the case with all people's lives, the moments of joy are never often enough and never long enough.

  James Frey

  Dream, Long, People

  James Frey (2011). “The Final Testament”, p.39, Hachette UK

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• It was so gorgeous it almost felt like sadness.

  Banana Yoshimoto

  Gorgeous, Felt

  Banana Yoshimoto (2011). “The Lake”, p.131, Melville House

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• But mostly, I remembered what I’ve always believed. What my mom taught me. That while some things are just plain awful, most things in life can be seen either tragic or comic. And it’s your choice. Is life a big, long, tiresome slog from sadness to regret to guilt to resentment to self-pity? Or is life weird, outrageous, bizarre, ironic, and just stupid? Gotta go with stupid. It’s not the easy way out. Self pity is the easiest thing in the world. Finding the humor, the irony, the slight justification for a skewed, skeptical optimism. That’s tough. - Marco, Animorphs #35: The Proposal

  Katherine Applegate

  Mom, Regret, Stupid

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• They held me and told me everything would be fine, that sadness would rise from our bones and evaporate in sunlight the way morning fog burned off the river in summer. My mother rubbed the kites on my hands and arms and told me to think of my lungs as balloons. I just want to feel safe, I said.

  Shane Jones

  Summer, Mother, Morning

  Shane Jones (2010). “Light Boxes: A Novel”, p.13, Penguin

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• Sadness was so claustrophobic.

  Kiran Desai

  Kiran Desai (2006). “Inheritance of Loss”, p.309, Penguin Books India

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• All these types of love come out of duty, respect, and gratitude. Most of them, as the women in my county know, are sources of sadness, rupture, and brutality.

  Lisa See

  Gratitude, Brutality, Rupture

  Lisa See (2011). “Snow Flower and the Secret Fan”, p.76, A&C Black

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• This sadness wasn't a huge part of me--I wasn't remotely depressed--but still, it was like a stone I carried in my pocket. I always knew it was there. [p. 179]

  Dani Shapiro

  Pockets, Stones, Stills

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• The measure of our mindfulness, the touchstone for sanity in this society, is our level of productivity, our attention to responsibility, our ability to plain and simple hold down a job. If you're still at the point when you're even just barely going through the motions--showing up at work, paying the bills--you are still okay or okay enough. A desire not to acknowledge sadness in ourselves or those close to us--better known these days as denial, is such a strong urge that plenty of people prefer to think that until you are actually flying out of a window, you don't have a problem.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Strong, Jobs, Responsibility

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.59, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Some people appear to be happy, but they simply don't give the matter much thought. Others make plans: I'm going to have a husband, a home, two children, a house in the country. As long as they're busy doing that, they're like bulls looking for the bullfighter: they react instinctively, they blunder on, with no idea where the target is. They get their car, sometimes they even get a Ferrari, and they think that's the meaning of life, and they never question it. Yet their eyes betray the sadness that even they don't know they carry in their soul. Are you happy?

  Paulo Coelho

  Country, Children, Husband

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• Papa sat with me tonight. He brought the accordion down and sat close to where Max used to sit. I often look at his fingers and face when he plays. the accordion breathes. There are lines on his cheeks. They look drawn on, and for some reason, when I see them, I want to cry. It is not for any sadness or pride. I just like the way they move and change. Sometimes I think my papa is an accordion. When he looks at me and smiles and breathes, I hear the notes.

  Markus Zusak

  Moving, Pride, Thinking

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• There were hundreds of them spread across the floor, each telling its own tale of triumph or sadness, each letter representing a phase in her life. She had kept them all.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Triumph, Phases, Letters

  Cecelia Ahern (2005). “Rosie Dunne”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• We can all of us be hurt, and no one is exclusively safe from worry and sadness.

  Patrick deWitt

  Hurt, Worry, Safe

  Patrick deWitt (2011). “The Sisters Brothers”, p.33, Granta Books

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• You have had many and great sadnesses, which passed. And you say that even this passing was hard for you and put you out of sorts. But, please, consider whether these great sadnesses have not rather gone right through the center of yourself? Whether much in you has not altered, whether you have not somewhere, at some point of your being, undergone a change when you were sad?

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Gone, Passing, Please

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• Listening to music, I always have exactly the same feeling: something’s missing. Never will I learn the cause of this gentle sadness, never will I wish to investigate it.

  Robert Walser

  Missing, Feelings, Listening

  Robert Walser (1990). “Masquerade and other stories”, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr

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• The guitar's still around me. I slip it off and put it down. I want to feel him. To feel his breath on my neck. The warmth of his skin. To feel something other than sadness. Hold me, I tell him silently. Hold me here. To this place. This life. Make me want you. Want this. Want something. Please

  Jennifer Donnelly

  Guitar, Want Something, Skins

  Jennifer Donnelly (2015). “Revolution”, p.34, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• The Sisters vanished entirely then, and Aunt Harriet was standing over Tessa, her face flushed with fever as it had been during the terrible illness that had killed her. She looked at Tessa with great sadness. "I tried," she said. "I tried to love you. But it isn't easy to love a child that isn't human in the least...." "Not human?" said an unfamiliar female voice. "Well, if she isn't human, Enoch, what is she?" The voice sharpened in impatience. "What do you mean, you don't know? Everyone's something. This girl can't be nothing at all.

  Cassandra Clare

  Girl, Children, Love You

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.54, Simon and Schuster

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• Thinking that it would console him, she took a piece of charcoal and erased the innumerable loves that he still owed her for, and she voluntarily brought up her own most solitary sadnesses so as not to leave him alone in his weeping.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Thinking, Pieces, Solitary

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2014). “One Hundred Years of Solitude”, p.339, Penguin UK

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• We all build internal sea walls to keep at bay the sadnesses of life and the often overwhelming forces within our minds. In whatever way we do this—through love, work, family, faith, friends, denial, alcohol, drugs, or medication—we build these walls, stone by stone, over a lifetime. One of the most difficult problems is to construct these barriers of such a height and strength that one has a true harbor, a sanctuary away from crippling turmoil and pain, but yet low enough, and permeable enough, to let in fresh seawater that will fend off the inevitable inclination toward brackishness.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Wall, Pain, Sea

  FaceBook post by Kay Redfield Jamison from May 17, 2014

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• Of all the miracles Po had seen in the time and space of its death, Po thought this--the absorption of another, the carrying of it--was the most bewildering and remarkable of all. Whenever Bundle separated again, Po was left with an ache of sadness that reminded the ghost of the body it had left behind.

  Lauren Oliver

  Space, Miracle, Body

  Lauren Oliver (2011). “Liesl & Po”, p.49, Hachette UK

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• And happiness is always louder than sadness.

  Deborah Harkness

  Deborah Harkness (2014). “All Souls Trilogy”, p.403, Penguin

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• ...I have so many dreams of my own, and I remember things from my childhood, from when I was a girl and a young woman, and I haven't forgotten a thing. So why did we think of Mom as a mom from the very beginning? She didn't have the opportunity to pursue her dreams, and all by herself, faced everything the era dealt her, poverty and sadness, and she couldn't do anything about her very bad lot in life other than suffer through it and get beyond it and live her life to the very best of her ability, giving her body and her heart to it completely. Why did I never give a thought to Mom's dreams?

  Shin Kyung-sook

  Girl, Mom, Dream

  FaceBook post by Kyung-sook Shin from May 09, 2015

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• Because beyond their practical function, all gestures have a meaning that exceeds the intention of those who make them; when people in bathing suits fling themselves into the water, it is joy itself that shows in the gesture, notwithstanding any sadness the divers may actually feel. When someone jumps into the water fully clothed, it is another thing entirely: the only person who jumps into the water fully clothed is a person trying to drown; and a person trying to drown does not dive headfirst; he lets himself fall: thus speaks the immemorial language of gestures.

  Milan Kundera

  Fall, Water, People

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• Somewhere in him, a shadow turned mournfully over. You had to run with a night like this so the sadness could not hurt

  Ray Bradbury

  Running, Hurt, Night

  Ray Bradbury (2013). “Something Wicked This Way Comes”, p.17, Harper Collins

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