Sadness Quotes - Page 38

• We all harbour a great sadness in our soul

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, Soul

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• When we are high up, everything looks very small.
  Our glories and our sadnesses cease to be important.
  We have left whatever we won or lost down below.
  From the top of a mountain you can see
  how large the world is and how wide the horizon.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Travel, Inspiration

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• Anyone who has known happiness will never again be able humbly to accept sadness.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, Able

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• Love cannot exist in peace, it will always come accompanied by agonies, ecstasies, intense joys and profound sadnesses.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, Agony

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Sep 11, 2014

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• There is a deep and undeniable sadness in all this: whenever we see the dawn of an eternal good that will never be overcome by evil – an evil that is itself eternal but will never succeed in overcoming good – whenever we see this dawn, the blood of old people and children is always shed.

  Vasily Grossman

  Children, Blood, People

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• There was something terrible, but also something sad and melancholy in this long cry uttered by the Russian infantry as they staged an attack. As it crossed the cold water, it lost its fervour. Instead of valour or gallantry, you could hear the sadness of a soul parting with everything that it loved, calling on its nearest and dearest to wake up, to lift their head from their pillows and hear for the last time the voice of a father, a husband, a son or a brother...

  Vasily Grossman

  Brother, Husband, Father

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• I carry a deep sadness of the heart which must now and then break out in sound.

  Franz Liszt

  Heart, Sound, Break Out

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• Pain could be killed. Sadness could not, but the drugs did shut its mouth for a time.

  Colson Whitehead

  Pain, Drug, Mouths

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• Sadness, disappointment, and severe challenges are events in life, not life itself. I do not minimize how hard some of these events are. They can extend over a long period of time, but they should not be allowed to become the confining center of everything you do.

  Richard G. Scott

  Disappointment, Events In Life, Long

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• I don't know whether there is anyone else at all who remembers my noble father with such sadness

  Egon Schiele

  Sad, Father, Noble

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• No one is as real to me as people in the novel. It grows like a living thing. When I realize they do not exist except in my mind I have a feeling of sadness, looking around for them, as if the half-empty cafe were a place I had once come to with friends who had all moved away.

  Mavis Gallant

  Real, People, Feelings

  "The Hunger Diaries" by Mavis Gallant, www.newyorker.com. July 9, 2012.

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• What can be considered human emotions? Surely not only lyricism, sadness, tragedy? Doesn't laughter also have a claim to that lofty title? I want to fight for the legitimate right of laughter in "serious" music.

  Dmitri Shostakovich

  Laughter, Fighting, Tragedy

  "Sovetskoye Iskusstvo", quoted in "Shostakovich: A Life", transl. by Laurel Fay (2000) p. 77, November 5, 1934.

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• I have even learned to respond to someone crying by just listening. In the old days I used to reach for the tissues, until I realized that passing a person a tissue may be just another way to shut them down, to take them out of their experience of sadness and grief. Now I just listen. When they have cried all they need to cry, they find me there with them.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Grief, Listening, Needs

  Rachel Naomi Remen (2006). “Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that Heal, 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.112, Penguin

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• It is a quite remarkable fact that the great religions of the most civilized peoples are more deeply fraught with sadness than the simpler beliefs of earlier societies. This certainly does not mean that the current of pessimism is eventually to submerge the other, but it proves that it does not lose ground and that it does not seem destined to disappear.

  Emile Durkheim

  Mean, Doe, Facts

  Emile Durkheim (2005). “Suicide: A Study in Sociology”, p.333, Routledge

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• Will God or someone give me the power to breathe my sigh into my canvases, the sigh of prayer and sadness, the prayer of salvation, of rebirth?

  Marc Chagall

  Prayer, Giving, Breathe

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• While it only takes one spouse to be friendly, it takes both spouses to be friends. When both spouses are unfriendly, the marriage is marked by conflict and coldness. When one spouse is friendly and the other is unfriendly, the marriage is marked by selfishness and sadness. But when both spouses each make a deep, heartfelt covenant with God to continually seek to become a better friend, increasing love and laughter mark the marriage.

  Mark Driscoll

  Love, Laughter, Covenant With God

  Mark Driscoll, Grace Driscoll (2013). “Real Marriage: The Truth About Sex, Friendship, and Life Together”, p.29, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Creativity starts with humanity when were being human we feel - joys, sadness, when we're sick, when we're nervous

  Marilyn Monroe

  Creativity, Sick, Creative

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• The calm. If there is God or something Higher for me it is this. The calm. If there is something that will hold me when I need to hold it is this the calm. There is no anger, no rage, no Fury. There is no want, no need, no desire. There is no hatred no shame no regret. There is no grief, no sadness, no depression. There is no fear. Absolutely no fear. When one lives without fear, one cannot be broken. When one lives with fear one is broken before one begins to live.

  James Frey

  Regret, Grief, Broken

  James Frey (2004). “A Million Little Pieces”, p.316, Anchor

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• Finally we are being told the truth: life isn’t always easy and pleasant. We already know this to be true, but somehow we tend to go through life thinking that there is something wrong with us when we experience sadness, grief, and physical and emotional pain. The first truth points out that this is just the way it is. There is nothing wrong with you: you have just been born into a realm where pain is a given.

  Noah Levine

  Pain, Grief, Emotional

  Noah Levine (2009). “Against the Stream: A Buddhist Manual for Spiritual Revolutionaries”, p.19, Harper Collins

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• The end of suffering happens in this very moment, whether you're watching a terrorist attack or doing the dishes. And compassion begins at home. Because I don't believe my thoughts, sadness can't exist. That's how I can go to the depths of anyone's suffering, if they invite me, and take them by the hand and walk them out of it into the sunlight of reality. I've taken that walk myself.

  Byron Katie

  Believe, Taken, Home

  "Compassion: The Less You Suffer, the Kinder You Naturally Become" by Byron Katie, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 20, 2015.

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• The only real sadness, the only real failure, the only great tragedy in life, is not to become a saint.

  Leon Bloy

  Real, Tragedy, Saint

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• I oscillate between life and death, happiness and sadness, good and evil.

  Alexander McQueen

  Life And Death, Evil, Good And Evil

  "Alexander McQueen’s 'Savage Beauty' At Metropolitan Museum Of Art (PHOTOS)" by Samantha Critchell, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 3, 2011.

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• A lean, loose-jointed Negro had commenced plunking a guitar beside me while I slept. His clothes were rags; his feet peeped out of his shoes. His face had on it some of the sadness of the ages. As he played, he pressed a knife on the strings of the guitar in a manner popularized by Hawaiian guitarists who used steel bars. The effect was unforgettable.

  William Christopher Handy

  Guitar, Knives, Shoes

  William Christopher Handy (1947). “Father of the Blues: An Autobiography of W. C. Handy”

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• Now is the month of Maying, When merry lads are playing. Fa la la... Each with his bonny lass, upon the greeny grass. Fa la la... The Spring clad all in gladness, Doth laugh at winter's sadness. Fa la la.

  Thomas Morley

  Spring, Winter, Laughing

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• I've heard people say that they cling to their painful thoughts
  because they're afraid that without them they wouldn't be activists for peace.
  “If I feel peaceful,” they say, “why would I bother taking action at all?”
  My answer is “Because that's what love does.”
  To think that we need sadness or outrage
  to motivate us to do what's right is insane.
  As if the clearer and happier you get, the less kind you become.
  As if when someone finds freedom, she just sits around all day
  with drool running down her chin.
  My experience is the opposite.
  Love is action.

  Byron Katie

  Running, Love Is, Thinking

  "Loving Without Exception". Omega Interview, www.eomega.org. March 18, 2015.

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