Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Wordsworth

The weight of sadness was in wonder lost.

Robert Ryan

I sometimes use a lot of light greens and greys when I feel there is sadness in the painting.

Robert Plant

Come into my life, here where nothing matters. Come into my life, roll away the gloom.

Sarah Dessen

He was looking at me, jsut as I'd thought he would be, but like Bert's, his light was not what I expected. No pity, no sadness: nothing had changed. I realized all the times I'd felt people stare at me, their faces had been pictures, abstracts. None of them were mirrors, able to reflect back the expression I thought one I wore, the feelings only I felt.

Veronica Roth

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

Milan Kundera

She was experiencing the same odd happiness and odd sadness as then. The sadness meant: We are at the last station. The happiness meant: We are together. The sadness was form, the happiness content. Happiness filled the space of sadness.

Kevin Brooks

I used to come here on my own sometimes... Id' stay down here for ages." Her voice was barely audible. "It's a good place for sadness...

Jonathan Safran Foer

I spent my life learning to feel less. Every day I felt less. Is that growing old? Or is it something worse? You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.

Jonathan Safran Foer

I wanted to touch him, to tell him that even if everyone left everyone, I would never leave him, he talked and talked, his words fell through him, trying to find the floor to his sadness.

Sheryl Lee

I was in Seattle and I wanted nothing more than to act, but I was so terrified of it that I couldn't even get myself to an audition. It was miserable.

Victoria Gonzales

We're pretty much in the driver's seat for second place now.

Zack Greinke

I was about 20 times smarter before this season started than I am now.

Vivien Leigh

Shaw is like a train. One just speaks the words and sits in one's place. But Shakespeare is like bathing in the sea - one swims where one wants.

William Howard Taft

Don't worry over what the newspapers say. I don't. Why should anyone else? I told the truth to the newspaper correspondents - but when you tell the truth to them they are at sea.

Willa Cather

From the time the Englishman's bones harden into bones at all, he makes his skeleton a flagstaff, and he early plants his feet like one who is to walk the world and the decks of all the seas.

Virginia Woolf

The depths of the sea are only water after all.

Samuel Beckett

There's never an end for the sea.

Ursula K. Le Guin

If you want to know all about the sea ... and ask the sea itself, what does it say? Grumble grumble swish swish. It is too busy being itself to know anything about itself.

Sarah Silverman

I still have highs and lows, maybe I don't cry salty tears as much.

William Blake

Every tear from every eyeBecomes a babe in eternity.

Publilius Syrus

Tears gratify a savage nature, they do not melt it.

Leigh Hunt

Some tears belong to us because we are unfortunate; others, because we are humane; many, because we are mortal. But most are caused by our being unwise. It is these last only that of necessity produce more.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Nothing dries sooner than a tear.

Margaret Atwood

The facts of this world seen clearly are seen through tears.

Philip Levine

I find you in these tears, few, useless and here at last. Don't come back.

Sid Waddell

When Alexander of Macedon was 33, he cried salt tears because there were no more worlds to conquer. Eric Bristow is only 27.

Leonard Cohen

If your life is a leaf that the seasons tear off and condemn they will bind you with love that is graceful and green as a stem.