Sadness Quotes - Page 27

• If we are to feel the positive feelings of love, happiness, trust, and gratitude, we periodically also have to feel anger, sadness, fear, and sorrow.

  John Gray

  Gratitude, Feelings, Sorrow

  John Gray “Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus”

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• Sadness at being caught, at the incontrovertibe knowledge that she will never forgive you.

  Junot Diaz

  Forgiving, Caught, Never Forgive

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• There was something in her eyes that drew me in. I wanted to make the sadness she tried to hide go away." -Cage York

  Abbi Glines

  Eye, Going Away, Cages

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• From that moment our love became sad, and sadness is a disease which gives the death-blow to affection.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Blow, Giving, Our Love

  Giacomo Casanova (2013). “The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt: Complete”, p.487, Simon and Schuster

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• Mood evidently affects the operation of System 1: when we are uncomfortable and unhappy, we lose touch with our intuition. These findings add to the growing evidence that good mood, intuition, creativity, gullibility, and increased reliance on System 1 form a cluster. At the other pole, sadness, vigilance, suspicion, an analytic approach, and increased effort also go together. A happy mood loosens the control of System 2 over performance: when in a good mood, people become more intuitive and more creative but also less vigilant and more prone to logical errors.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Creativity, Errors, People

  Daniel Kahneman (2011). “Thinking, Fast and Slow”, p.69, Macmillan

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• Remembering bred its own peculiar sorrow. It seemed so unfair: that time should render both sadness and happiness into a source of pain.

  Rohinton Mistry

  Pain, Sorrow, Peculiar

  Rohinton Mistry (2008). “A Fine Balance”, p.337, Faber & Faber

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• There is nothing so cleansing or reassuring as a vicarious sadness.

  David Rakoff

  Cleansing, Reassuring, Vicarious

  David Rakoff (2010). “Half Empty”, p.198, Anchor

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• He thought about himself and to the young that always brings sadness.

  Sherwood Anderson

  Young

  Sherwood Anderson (1995). “Winesburg, Ohio”, p.105, Courier Corporation

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• The point is not that this world is too sad to love or too glad not to love; the point is that when you do love a thing, its gladness is a reason for loving it, and its sadness a reason for loving it more.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  World, Reason, Glad

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

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• Family likeness has often a deep sadness in it. Nature, that great tragic dramatist, knits us together by bone and muscle, and divides us by the subtler web of our brains; blends yearning and repulsion; and ties us by our heart-strings to the beings that jar us at every movement.

  George Eliot

  Heart, Ties, Brain

  George Eliot (1859). “Adam Bede”, p.34, London

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• She was sad with an obscure sadness of which she had not the secret herself. There was in her whole person the stupor of a life ended but never commenced.

  Victor Hugo

  Secret, Obscure, Persons

  Victor Hugo (1862). “Marius”, p.25

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• The ocean was one of the greatest things he had ever seen in his life—bigger and deeper than anything he had imagined. It changed its color and shape and expression according to time and place and weather. It aroused a deep sadness in his heart, and at the same time it brought his heart peace and comfort.

  Haruki Murakami

  Ocean, Heart, Expression

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• The observations and encounters of a solitary, taciturn man are vaguer and at the same times more intense than those of a sociable man; his thoughts are deeper, odder and never without a touch of sadness. Images and perceptions that could be dismissed with a glance, a laugh, an exchange of opinions, occupy him unduly, become more intense in the silence, become significant, become an experience, an adventure, an emotion. Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportionate, the absurd and the forbidden.

  Thomas Mann

  Adventure, Men, Laughing

  Thomas Mann (2012). “Death in Venice & A Man and His Dog: A Dual-Language Book”, p.101, Courier Corporation

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• Maybe sadness was a kind of hunger, she thought. Maybe the two went together.

  Margaret Atwood

  Two, Together, Kind

  Margaret Atwood (2010). “The Year Of The Flood”, p.211, Hachette UK

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• Oh, September! It is so soon for you to lose your friends to good work and strange loves and high ambitions. The sadness of that is too grown-up for you. Like whiskey and voting, it is a dangerous and heady business, as heavy as years. If I could keep your little tribe together forever, I would. I do so want to be generous. But some stories sprout bright vines that tendril off beyond our sight, carrying the folk we love best with them, and if I knew how to accept that with grace, I would share the secret.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Ambition, Sight, Years

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• With each sadness a woman gets more beautiful. I wonder if with each sadness a man gets stronger.

  Gackt

  Beautiful, Men, Stronger

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

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• But I saw the pain and sadness in everything, and swirled it round my mouth like a fine wine.

  Emma Forrest

  Pain, Wine, Mouths

  Emma Forrest (2012). “Your Voice in My Head”, p.17, A&C Black

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• Is it needy? It's not. We don't need each other. We just really, really enjoy each other. And we're good together. We're good people together. And I have the funniest feeling. I can really, truly touch this all, this happiness and the sadness too, I can trace all of it with my fingers. It isn't theoretical or distant. This feels like me. This is me. I love him, and, for the first time in a relationship, I also like me. Every time he says "I love you," I answer, "I believe you.

  Emma Forrest

  Believe, Love You, I Love Him

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• What people don't understand when you've already been a suicide and pulled through is that after the sadness comes fear: Where is my mind going with this? I don't want to die. I do not want to die. When you don't have so much control over your own thoughts, over the myriad voices in your head, you don't know where they could go.

  Emma Forrest

  Suicide, Voice, People

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• Let's face it: Sadness and evil are always more believable than happiness and love. When a movie reviewer calls a film "realistic," everyone knows what that means--it means the movie has an unhappy ending.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Mean, Evil, Happiness And Love

  Chuck Klosterman (2012). “Fargo Rock City: A Heavy Metal Odyssey In Rural North Dakota”, p.58, Simon and Schuster

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• You left ground and sky weeping, mind and soul full of grief. No one can take your place in existence, or in absence. Both mourn, the angels, the prophets, and this sadness I feel has taken from me the taste of language, so that I cannot say the flavor of my being apart.

  Rumi

  Grief, Taken, Angel

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• The only sadnesses that are dangerous and unhealthy are the ones that we carry around in public in order to drown them out with the noise.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Order, Noise, Dangerous

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2001). “Letters to a Young Poet”

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• I shall return, doubt it not. Such love as ours was not created to remain unfulfilled. Whatever may happen, believe and trust in me, as I shall in you, and keep the remembrance of me in your heart without sadness and without regret.

  Baroness Orczy

  Regret, Believe, Heart

  Baroness Orczy (2011). “The First Sir Percy”, p.80, House of Stratus

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• exile is strangely compelling to think about but terrible to experience. It is the unhealable rift forced between a human being and a native place, between the self and its true home: its essential sadness can never be surmounted. And while it is true that literature and history contain heroic, romantic, glorious, even triumphant episodes in an exile’s life, these are no more than efforts meant to overcome the crippling sorrow of estrangement.

  Edward Said

  Home, Thinking, Self

  Edward W. Said (2013). “Reflections On Exile: And Other Literary And Cultural Essays”, p.212, Granta Books

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• It’s not only about sadness. In truth, sadness really has little to do with it. Depression is pain in its purest form and I would do anything to be able to feel an emotion again. Any emotion at all. Pain hurts, but pain that’s so powerful that you can’t feel anything anymore, that’s when you start to feel like you’re going crazy.

  J.A. Redmerski

  Hurt, Pain, Powerful

  J. A. Redmerski (2013). “The Edge of Never”, p.36, HarperCollins UK

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