Sadness Quotes - Page 25

• In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality. It is as final as the mountains: a fact. There it is. When you realize it you cannot complain.

  William S. Burroughs

  Mountain, Complaining, Finals

  William S Burroughs (2012). “Queer: 25th Anniversary Edition”, p.141, Penguin UK

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• I didn't like the way I looked, the way I dressed and moved, what I achieved and what I felt I was worth. But there was so much energy in me, such belief that one day I'd be handsome and clever and superior and admired, such anticipation when I met new people and new situations. Is that what makes me sad? The eagerness and belief that filled me then and exacted a pledge from life that life could never fulfill? Sometimes I see the same eagerness and belief in the faces of children and teenagers and the sight brings back the same sadness I feel in remembering myself.

  Bernhard Schlink

  Children, Clever, Teenager

  Bernhard Schlink (2001). “The Reader”, p.38, Vintage

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• You can’t know, sweetie, because you’ve never had a baby become a brilliant young reader with a side interest in horrible television shows, but the joy you bring us is so much greater than the sadness we feel about your illness.

  John Green

  Baby, Joy, Television

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.103, Penguin

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• (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadness)

  Jean Sasson

  Grief, Faces, Lifetime

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• And even sadness was also something for rich people, for people who could afford it, for people who didn't have anything better to do. Sadness was a luxury.

  Clarice Lispector

  Luxury, People, Rich

  Clarice Lispector (2017). “Hour of the Star”, p.50, Penguin UK

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• The times that were most fun seemed always to be followed by sadness now, because it was when life started to feel like it did when she was with us that we realized how utterly gone she was.

  John Green

  Fun, Gone, Feels

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.144, Penguin

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• Gentle lady, do not sing Sad songs about the end of love; Lay aside sadness and sing How love that passes is enough. Sing about the long deep sleep Of lovers that are dead, and how In the grave all love shall sleep: Love is aweary now.

  James Joyce

  Song, Sleep, Love Is

  James Joyce (2013). “Four Novels by James Joyce”, p.1674, eBookIt.com

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• And I believe happiness is the exact opposite of sadness, bitterness, and hatred: happiness should remain unexamined as long as possible.

  Stephen King

  Believe, Opposites, Long

  Stephen King (2016). “The Tommyknockers”, p.292, Simon and Schuster

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• Christ walked the path every mortal is called to walk so that he would know how to succor and strengthen us in our most difficult times. He knows the deepest and most personal burdens we carry. He knows the most public and poignant pains we bear. He descended below al such grief in order that he might lift us above it. There is no anguish or sorrow or sadness in life that he has not suffered in our behalf and borne away upon his own valiant and compassionate shoulders.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Pain, Grief, Order

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• For reasons he couldn’t understand a sadness came over him and it was then he saw the girl standing on the other side of the dirt road, her eyes pools of absolute sorrow, her light brown hair glowing in the splinters of sunlight that forced their way through the trees.

  Melina Marchetta

  Girl, Eye, Hair

  Melina Marchetta (2010). “Jellicoe Road”, p.31, Harper Collins

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• I feel an overwhelming rush of sadness... I'm just struck with a sense of time passing so quickly, rushing forward. One day I'll wake up and my whole life will be behind me, and it will seem to have gone as quickly as a dream.

  Lauren Oliver

  Dream, Rushing, One Day

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.221, Hachette UK

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• Just the sound of his voice twists my stomach into a knot of unpleasant emotions like guilt, sadness and fear. And longing. I might as well admit there’s some of that too.

  Suzanne Collins

  Voice, Guilt, Twists

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.14, Scholastic Inc.

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• After such an emotional day with her own parents, the thought nearly brought Luce to her knees with sadness. Daniel was alone in the world.

  Lauren Kate

  Emotional, Parent, World

  Lauren Kate (2011). “The Fallen Sequence: An Omnibus Edition”, p.230, Delacorte Press

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• You have to protect yourself from sadness. Sadness is very close to hate. Let me tell you this. This is the thing I learned. If you take in someone else's poison – thinking you can cure them by sharing it – you will instead store it within you. Those men in the desert were smarter than you. They assumed he could be useful. So they saved him, but when he was no longer useful they left him.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Hate, Men, Thinking

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• So sadness is a place?' Giovanni asked. 'Sometimes people live there for years,'I said.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Years, People, Sometimes

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.73, A&C Black

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• She must have sensed she never really had him. That was a sadness of hers, he knew.

  Ann Brashares

  Ann Brashares (2010). “My Name is Memory”, p.172, Penguin

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• One of the failures of cellular communication is that tiredness often comes across as sadness.

  Rachel Cohn

  Communication, Cellular, Tiredness

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• The strength I'm looking for isn't the type where you win or lose. I'm not after a wall that'll repel power coming from outside. What I want us the kind of strength to be able to absorb that kind of power, to stand up to it.The strength to quietly endure things - unfairness, misfortunes, sadness, mistakes, misunderstandings.

  Haruki Murakami

  Wall, Mistake, Winning

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• And of course she understood now why her body wanted to run whenever he appeared. It was a correct instinct, for there was nothing to be got from this but sadness.

  Kristin Cashore

  Running, Body, Instinct

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.135, Penguin

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• The largest part of what we call 'personality' is determined by how we've opted to defend ourselves against anxiety and sadness".

  Alain de Botton

  Worry, Personality, Anxiety

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• It's strange how sometimes you can be so happy it goes all the way round to sadness.

  David Walliams

  Way, Strange, Sometimes

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• I won't waste your time with the injuries of my childhood, with my loneliness, or the fear and sadness of the years I spent inside my parents' marriage, under the reign of my father's rage, afer all, who isn't a survivor from the wreck of childhood?

  Nicole Krauss

  Father, Loneliness, Years

  Nicole Krauss (2011). “Great House: A Novel”, p.200, W. W. Norton & Company

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• For a second I feel a rush of sadness: for the horizons that vanish behind us, for the people we leave behind, the tiny-doll selves that get stored away and ultimately buried.

  Lauren Oliver

  Self, People, Dolls

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• Avoiding problems doesn't make them go away - you think it does, but it really doesn't. They're just postponed. Those problems just stay inside your subconscious and brew until your body gets to a point where it's had enough and decides to release some of the stress itself. That's what an anxiety attack is! It happens when you don't know how to vent your frustration, fears, stress, sadness, madness, whatever it is that bothers you, the things you should be confronting and getting closure with. If you don't confront these things and deal with them, your body does it for you.

  Sully Erna

  Stress, Thinking, Frustration

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• I want the following word: splendor, splendor is fruit in all its succulence, fruit without sadness. I want vast distances. My savage intuition of myself.

  Clarice Lispector

  Distance, Intuition, Savages

  Clarice Lispector (1989). “Agua Viva”, p.17, U of Minnesota Press

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