Sadness Quotes - Page 8

• No wonder sorrow doesn’t smile much. No wonder sadness is so sad.

  Nick Cave

  Sorrow, Wonder, So Sad

  Nick Cave (2007). “The Complete Lyrics: 1978-2013”, p.23, Penguin UK

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• Your perspective is vital to your happiness. Some, blind to the bountiful opportunities around them, live lives of sadness and despair with brief moments of joy. Be alive to the abundant potential that surrounds you so that you live a life of peace and happiness with periods of challenging growth.

  Richard G. Scott

  Live Life, Opportunity, Perspective

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• Like Buddha under the Bo tree, Jesus, on his tree, has his eyes closed too. The difference is this. The pain and sadness of the world that Buddha's eyes close out is the pain and sadness of the world that the eyes of Jesus close in.

  Frederick Buechner

  Jesus, Pain, Eye

  Frederick Buechner, Lee Boltin (1974). “The life of Jesus”, Gramercy

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• For a human being, sadness is as powerful as terror. Sadness makes a warrior shed tears of blood.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Powerful, Warrior, Blood

  Carlos Castaneda (2013). “Eagle's Gift”, p.143, Simon and Schuster

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• I love what movies and television and all that kind of stuff has done to me through the years. I love that it can bring up all these different emotions in me - whether it's anger or happiness or sadness...whatever it may be.

  Kevin Sorbo

  Years, Stuff, Different

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• For me, my past characters been hard, the way they died, being murdered, the sadness that goes around, the death. It's a very hard thing to do.

  Michael K. Williams

  Character, Past, Way

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm unhappy as Dylan Thomas was, because I'm not, but I've had my brushes with sadness.

  Tom Hollander

  Unhappy, Brushes, Dylan

  Source: collider.com

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• I can't remember anything without a sadness so deep that it hardly becomes known to me, so deep that its tears leave me a spectator of my own stupidity.

  John Lennon

  Stupidity, Tears, Remember

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• It's one of the great fallacies, it seems to me, that time gives much of anything but years and sadness to man.

  John Steinbeck

  Men, Years, Giving

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.330, Penguin

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• The cars of the migrant people crawled out of the side roads onto the great cross-country highway, and they took the migrant way to the West.... And because they were lonely and perplexed, because they had all come from a place of sadness and worry and defeat, and because they were all going to a mysterious new place, ... a strange thing happened: the twenty families became one family, the children were the children of all. The loss of home became one loss, and the golden time in the West was one dream.

  John Steinbeck

  Country, Dream, Lonely

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• People are not theirs thoughts, they think they are, and it brings them all kinds of sadness.

  Nick Nolte

  Thinking, People, Peaceful Warrior

  "Fictional character: Socrates". "Peaceful Warrior", www.imdb.com. 2006.

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• We need to remind each other that the cup of sorrow is also the cup of joy, that precisely what causes us sadness can become the fertile ground for gladness.

  Henri Nouwen

  Joy, Sorrow, Needs

  Henri J.M. Nouwen (2017). “You Are the Beloved: Daily Meditations for Spiritual Living”, Convergent Books

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• Prayer can truly change your life. For it turns your attention away from yourself and directs your mind and your heart toward the Lord. If we look only at ourselves, with our own limitations and sins, we quickly give way to sadness and discouragement. But if we keep our eyes fixed on the Lord, then our hearts are filled with hope, our minds are washed n the light of truth, and we come to know the fullness of the Gospel with all is promise and life.

  Pope John Paul II

  Prayer, Heart, Eye

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• The tiniest criticism or put-down soaks into me and lies in my heart like a stone. Sometimes that spurs me on to work harder, but sometimes it just fills me up with sadness.

  Cathy Cassidy

  Lying, Hard Work, Heart

  Cathy Cassidy (2012). “Chocolate Box Girls: Summer's Dream”, p.40, Penguin UK

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• We spend so much of our passion on our first love. I'm not convinced that it-passion-is one of those things that you have an endless amount of-like happiness or sadness. I could be happy all day. I could be sad all day. But I'm not so sure I'll ever love like that again.

  Laura Miller

  Passion, First Love, Firsts

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• When hints of sadness creep into our soul, we must not flee into happy or distracting thoughts. Pondering the sadness until it becomes overwhelming can lead us to deep change in the direction of our being from self-preservation to grateful worship.

  Larry Crabb

  Grateful, Self, Soul

  Larry Crabb, Lawrence James Crabb (1991). “Inside Out”, NavPress Publishing Group

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• All of the sadness and drama you have lived in your life was rooted in the making of assumptions and taking things personally. The whole world of control between humans is based on that.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Drama, World, Assumption

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• The quieter we are, the more patient and open we are in our sadnesses, the more deeply and serenely the new presence can enter us, and the more we can make it our own, the more it becomes our fate.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Fate, Patient

  Letters to a Young Poet: Letter Eight (12 August 1904), 1934.

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• I was caught in a private cycle of sadness and the only conceivable relief I could find was in the telling.

  Kate Mulgrew

  Relief, Caught, Cycles

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• I felt a bottomless sadness. So completely alone. Like one of my stuffed animals at home that I was too old for now, that sat on the shelf in my closet, mashed against the back wall.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Wall, Home, Animal

  Augusten Burroughs (2010). “Running with Scissors: A Memoir”, p.68, Macmillan

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• Depression can kill you. It can also be a spiritually enriching experience. It's really an important part of my theology now and my spirituality that life is not perfect, and I grew up wanting it to be and thinking that if it wasn't, I could make it that way, and I had to acknowledge that I had all kinds of flaws and sadnesses and problems.

  Krista Tippett

  Thinking, Perfect, Important

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• God is not a God of sadness, death, etc., but the devil is. Christ is a God of joy, and so the Scriptures often say that we should rejoice ... A Christian should and must be a cheerful person.

  Martin Luther

  Christian, Joy, Cheerful

  Martin Luther (1967). “Table Talk”

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• When you make it a strong habit not to take anything personally, you avoid many upsets in your life. Your anger, jealousy, and envy will disappear, and even your sadness will simply disappear if you don't take things personally.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Strong, Envy, Upset

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• The sadness of the end of a career of an older athlete, with the betrayal of his body, is mirrored in the rest of us. Consciously or not, we know: there, soon, go I.

  Ira Berkow

  Betrayal, Athlete, Careers

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• How can money be the root of all evil when shopping is the cure for all sadness?

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Shopping, Roots, Evil

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