Sadness Quotes - Page 29

• Talk to me about sadness. I talk about it too much in my own head but I never mind others talking about it either; I occasionally feel like I tremendously need others to talk about it as well.

  Anne Sexton

  Talking, Mind, Needs

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• I’m not clear enough in the head to feel anything but varieties of dull anger and arrows of sadness.

  Virginia Woolf

  Arrows, Dull, Enough

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• I should’ve been furious, but for some reason I wasn’t. Maybe because I knew he was telling the truth. Maybe because Voron left me just like that, without the much-needed explanations. Maybe because things I had learned about him since his death had made me doubt everything he’d ever said to me. Whatever the case, I felt only a hollow, crushing sadness. How touching. I understood my adoptive father’s killer. Maybe after this was over, Hugh’s head and I could sing “Kumbaya” together by the fire.

  Ilona Andrews

  Crush, Father, Fire

  Ilona Andrews (2013). “Magic Rises: A Kate Daniels Novel”, p.85, Penguin

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• Rose you can't go." This time the sadness in Lissa's voice was mirrored though the bond, flooding into me. "It's not that Dimitri didn't ask to see you. He asked specifically not to see you.

  Richelle Mead

  Voice, Rose, Dimitri

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• You really didn't see the sadness or the longing unless you already knew it was there. But that was the trick, wasn't it? Everyone had their disappointment and their baggage; only, some people carried it in their inside pockets and not on their backs.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Disappointment, People, Pockets

  Maggie Stiefvater (2013). “The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)”, p.198, Scholastic Inc.

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• You think you need me, little firecracker?” The gruff question travels all the way through me, and I have to press my thighs together to stop the tremor in me. “Baby, the way you need me can only barely cover half of the way I need you.” The unexpected sadness in his voice yanks my gaze back to his.

  Katy Evans

  Baby, Thinking, Voice

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• All that sadness. All that anger. It is the smoke that gets into your eyes. If you do not blow it away, how can you hope to see?

  Anthony Horowitz

  Eye, Blow, Ifs

  Anthony Horowitz (2013). “Russian Roulette: The Story of an Assassin”, p.126, Penguin

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• I feel empty, not because of sadness, but because of relief, all the tension flowing out of me.

  Veronica Roth

  Relief, Empty, Tension

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• He was making a brave attempt, but Jason could see the sadness lingering in his eyes. Something had happened to him... something to do with Calypso.

  Rick Riordan

  Eye, Brave, Jason

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• Activity and sadness are incompatible.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Positive, Activity

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• Twilight and evening bell, And after that the dark! And may there be no sadness of farewell, When I embark; For though from out our bourne of Time and Place The flood may bear me far, I hope to see my Pilot face to face When I have crossed the bar.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Time, Twilight, Farewell

  'Crossing the Bar' (1889)

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• Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not. Time takes it all, time bears it away, and in the end there is only darkness. Sometimes we find others in that darkness, and sometimes we lose them there again.

  Stephen King

  Sad, Time, Loneliness

  Stephen King (2010). “The Green Mile: The Complete Serial Novel”, p.363, Simon and Schuster

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• Dance is your pulse, your heartbeat, your breathing. It's the rhythm of your life. It's the expression in time and movement,in happiness, joy, sadness and envy.

  Jacques d'Amboise

  Dance, Expression, Breathing

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• Sometimes one has simply to endure a period of depression for what it may hold of illumination if one can live through it, attentive to what it exposes or demands.

  May Sarton

  Sad, Depression, Illumination

  May Sarton (2014). “Journal of a Solitude”, p.8, Open Road Media

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• A Jazz man should be saying what he feels: humor, sadness, joy... all the things that humans have.

  Bob Brookmeyer

  Music, Men, Joy

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• The only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance is atheism. It is not a creed. Death is certain, replacing both the siren-song of Paradise and the dread of Hell. Life on this earth, with all its mystery and beauty and pain, is then to be lived far more intensely: we stumble and get up, we are sad, confident, insecure, feel loneliness and joy and love. There is nothing more; but I want nothing more.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Motivational, Song, Atheist

  Christopher Hitchens (2007). “The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever”, p.480, Da Capo Press

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• It is a time when one's spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity and a burden, and the future but a way to death.

  Mark Twain

  Sad, Death, Past

  Mark Twain, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays”, p.1257, GENERAL PRESS

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• She was no longer wrestling with the grief,
  but could sit down with it as a lasting companion
  and make it a sharer in her thoughts.

  George Eliot

  Sad, Grief, Wrestling

  George Eliot (1873). “Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life”, p.271

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• Sadness usually results from one of the following causes either when a man does not succeed, or is ashamed of his success.

  Seneca the Younger

  Sad, Men, Doe

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• It is an unfortunate personal tragedy. However, when compared to the vast ocean of the collective tragedy faced by my people, my illness is merely a pebble. I am deeply sad that I am crippled by this illness, unable to contribute anything substantial towards the alleviation of the immense suffering and oppression of my people.

  Anton Balasingham

  Ocean, People, Suffering

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• The past is as powerless to darken the present moment as is a shadow to reach up and drag down the form that casts it.

  Guy Finley

  Sad, Past, Shadow

  FaceBook post by Guy Finley from Aug 20, 2014

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• The only thing worried thoughts have the power to change is what the next thing will be for you to worry over!

  Guy Finley

  Worry, Next, Worried

  FaceBook post by Guy Finley from Feb 04, 2013

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• The only one interested in hearing your sad story is . . . you; and even you wish you didn't have to relive it again!

  Guy Finley

  Wish, Stories, Hearing

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• There is not enough darkness in all the world to put out the light of even one small candle.

  Robert Alden

  Sad, Appreciation, Light

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• The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness. The remarkable thing is that the cessation of the inner dialogue marks also the end of our concern with the world around us. It is as if we noted the world and think about it only when we have to report it to ourselves.

  Eric Hoffer

  Loneliness, Thinking, Finals

  "Reflections on the Human Condition". Book by Eric Hoffer, Section 165, 1973.

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