Sadness Quotes - Page 24

• Words are tears that have been written down. Tears are words that need to be shed. Without them, joy loses all its brilliance and sadness has no end.

  Paulo Coelho

  Wisdom, Joy, Tears

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Oct 12, 2016

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• She had a sadness that was so deep, but it still could turn to light in a second, and when I saw her smile I wondered what it would be like to make her smile. I thought... I thought it would be like the discovery of smiling.

  Laini Taylor

  Light, Discovery, Would Be

  "Daughter of Smoke and Bone". Book by Laini Taylor, September 27, 2011.

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• It gave me a sharp kind of sadness to think that no matter how much I loved him and tried to put him back together again, he might stay broken forever.

  Paula McLain

  Thinking, Together Again, Broken

  Paula McLain (2011). “The Paris Wife: A Novel”, p.113, Ballantine Books

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• I was always either so unreasonably and pointlessly happy that no one place could seem to contain me, or so melancholy, so sick and silly with sadness that there was no place I could stomach the thought of entering. I hated it here. And I have never been as happy as when I was here. And these two things together confront me with the beak and claws of the True.

  David Foster Wallace

  Silly, Two, Sick

  David Foster Wallace (2004). “The Broom of the System: A Novel”, p.183, Penguin

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• Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others. Their fear is only their inability to face what is real, and I can't vent any anger against them. I only feel this appalling sadness. Somewhere, in their upbringing, they were shielded against the total facts of our existence. They were only taught to look one way when many ways exist.

  Charles Bukowski

  Real, Inability, Needs

  Charles Bukowski (2015). “On Writing”, p.132, Canongate Books

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• But for a moment Dirk had a sense of inifinite loss and sadness that somewhere among the frenzy of information noise that daily rattled the lives of men he thought he might have heard a few notes that denoted the movements of gods.

  Douglas Adams

  Loss, Men, Noise

  Douglas Adams (2016). “Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Box Set: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul”, p.383, Simon and Schuster

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• More than anything, I felt the unfairness of it, the inarguable injustice of loving someone who might have loved you back but can't due to deadness, and then I leaned forward, my forehead against the back of Takumi's headrest, and I cried, whimpering, and I didn't even feel sadness so much as pain.

  John Green

  Pain, Loving Someone, Might

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.113, Penguin

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• Sadness is silent, it is yours. It is coming because you are alone. It is giving you a chance to go deeper into your aloneness. Rather than jumping from one shallow happiness to another shallow happiness and wasting your life, it is better to use sadness as a means for meditation. Witness it. It is a friend! It opens the door of your eternal aloneness.

  Rajneesh

  Spiritual, Mean, Doors

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• Bridget's anger evaporated and the sadness came back. The anger was easier. She owned and contolled it, whereas the sadness owned her.

  Ann Brashares

  Easier

  Ann Brashares (2011). “Sisterhood Everlasting (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants): A Novel”, p.124, Random House

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• I looked into his eyes, and I realized he was the same man I'd seen in my dreams. His face might be totally different, but the same soul was in there, the same intelligence and all the sadness.

  Rick Riordan

  Dream, Eye, Men

  Rick Riordan (2009). “Percy Jackson and the Battle of the Labyrinth”, p.202, Penguin UK

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• Who in the world has not yearned for a loved one, has never said, If only he or she could come back just once, just one more time...? Despite the fact that it can never happen, never ever. Surely this is the saddest thing about our mortal world, and its sadness will go on shrouding human life like a blanket of fog until its final extinction.

  Ismail Kadaré

  Fog, Finals, Goes On

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• Yes, you should talk," he said. "Sometimes a sad man can talk the sadness right out through his mouth. Sometimes a killin' man can talk the murder right out of his mouth.

  John Steinbeck

  Men, Mouths, Sometimes

  John Steinbeck (2016). “The Grapes of Wrath”, p.42, Hamilton Books

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• None will ever be a true Parisian who has not learned to wear a mask of gaiety over his sorrows and one of sadness, boredom, or indifference over his inward joy.

  Gaston Leroux

  Boredom, Joy, Sorrow

  Gaston Leroux (2016). “THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (Mystery & Horror Series): Gothic Classic Based on True Events at the Paris Opera”, p.24, e-artnow

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• I think there is something beautiful in reveling in sadness. The proof is how beautiful sad songs can be. So I don’t think being sad is to be avoided. It’s apathy and boredom you want to avoid. But feeling anything is good, I think. Maybe that’s sadistic of me.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Beautiful, Song, Thinking

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• ...to make art is to realize another's sadness within, realize the hidden sadness in other people's lives, to feel sad with and for a stranger.

  Marianne Wiggins

  Art, People, Realizing

  Marianne Wiggins (2008). “The Shadow Catcher: A Novel”, p.79, Simon and Schuster

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• I couldn’t help but think about school and everything else ending. I liked standing just outside the couches and watching them—it was a kind of sad I didn’t mind, and so I just listened, letting all the happiness and the sadness of this ending swirl around in me, each sharpening the other. For the longest time, it felt kind of like my chest was cracking open, but not precisely in an unpleasant way.

  John Green

  Real, School, Thinking

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.215, A&C Black

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• She knew that there were all kinds of ways to make a conquest and that one of the surest roads to a woman's genitals was through her sadness.

  Milan Kundera

  Way, Kind, Conquest

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• Once there had been joy, but now there was only sadness, and it was not, he knew, alone the sadness of an empty house; it was the sadness of all else, the sadness of the Earth, the sadness of the failures and the empty triumphs.

  Clifford D. Simak

  House, Joy, Earth

  Clifford D. Simak (2015). “City”, p.207, Open Road Media

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• There is nothing else for people to do. They do not think. They feel no passion, no hatred, no sadness; they feel nothing but fear, and a desire to control. So they watch, and poke, and pry.

  Lauren Oliver

  Passion, Thinking, People

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.365, Hachette UK

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• Much of my life had been devoted to trying not to cry in front of people who loved me, so I knew what Augustus was doing. You clench your teeth. You look up. You tell yourself that if they see you cry, it will hurt them, and you will be nothing but a Sadness in their lives, and you must not become a mere sadness, so you will not cry, and you say all of this to yourself while looking up at the ceiling, and then you swallow even though your throat does not want to close and you look at the person who loves you and smile.

  John Green

  Hurt, Love You, People

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• Nostalgia is a way of remembering people and places and things, and wishing things hadn't changed. It has a sweetness to it. Sadness is just--well--being sad.

  Linda Lael Miller

  People, Being Sad, Wish

  Linda Lael Miller (2011). “Creed's Honor”, p.199, HQN Books

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• People once believed that when someone dies, a crow carries their soul to the land of the dead. But sometimes, something so bad happens that a terrible sadness is carried with it and the soul can't rest. Then sometimes, just sometimes, the crow can bring that soul back to put the wrong things right.

  James O'Barr

  Land, People, Soul

  "The Crow". www.imdb.com. 1994.

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• only adj. thats the dilemma isn't it? when you're single, there's the sadness and joy of only me. And when you're paired, there's the sadness and joy of only you.

  David Levithan

  Joy, Dilemma

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.145, Macmillan

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• Life is but a sleep disturbed by dreaming, prompted by the will; the saddened soul with sadness hides it's secrets, and the gay, with thrill.

  Khalil Gibran

  Dream, Sleep, Gay

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• Being tired of all illusions and of everything about illusions – the loss of illusions, the uselessness of having them, the prefatigue of having to have them in order to lose them, the sadness of having had them, the intellectual shame of having had them knowing that they would have to end this way.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Tired, Loss, Order

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