Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elif Safak

After the Ankara bombings on October 10, people were asked to hold a minute of silence, but many refused. Our society can't even unite in grief to honor the victims. We've lost our empathy. That's maybe the worst.

Dominic Cooper

Grief jumps out at you when you're least expecting it.

Dodie Smith

Death is too much to ask of the living.

Anne Lamott

The grief and tears didn't wash me away. They gave me my life back! They cleansed me, baptized me, hydrated the earth at my feet.

Anne Lamott

But you can’t get to any of these truths by sitting in a field smiling beatifically, avoiding your anger and damage and grief. Your anger and damage and grief are the way to the truth. We don’t have much truth to express unless we have gone into those rooms and closets and woods and abysses that we were told not go in to. When we have gone in and looked around for a long while, just breathing and finally taking it in – then we will be able to speak in our own voice and to stay in the present moment. And that moment is home.

Anna Akhmatova

Call me a sinner, Mock me maliciously: I was your insomnia, I was your grief.

Ann Voskamp

When grief is deepest, words are fewest.

Ann Voskamp

Darkness transfigures into light, bad transfigures into good, grief transfigures into grace, empty transfigures into full. God wastes nothing – ‘makes everything work out according to his plan.’ (Ephesians 1:11).

Albert Camus

Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.

Clarice Lispector

And even sadness was also something for rich people, for people who could afford it, for people who didn't have anything better to do. Sadness was a luxury.

Charles Bukowski

I felt like crying but nothing came out. it was just a sort of sad sickness, sick sad, when you can't feel any worse. I think you know it. I think everybody knows it now and then. but I think I have known it pretty often, too often.

Alexander McQueen

There is something sinister, something quite biographical about what I do - but that part is for me. It's my personal business. I think there is a lot of romance, melancholy. There's a sadness to it, but there's romance in sadness. I suppose I am a very melancholy person.

Kevin Sorbo

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.

Madonna Ciccone

I made a vow that I would never need another person ever. Turned my heart into a cage, a victim of a kind of rage.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

The sadness of the world has different ways of getting to people, but it seems to succeed almost every time.

Lorrie Moore

Every arrangement in life carried with it the sadness, the sentimental shadow, of its not being something else, but only itself.

Evelyn Waugh

That was the change in her from ten years ago; that, indeed, was her reward, this haunting, magical sadness which spoke straight to the heart and struck silence; it was the completion of her beauty.

Chris Weitz

I often make movies that involve depression or deep holes of sadness, although there are also these other great things in 'New Moon,' like this epic set-piece at the end of the film in Italy.

Bon Scott

It's nothing to do with us at all, our success is due to the taste of the public.

Charles Bukowski

An early taste of death is not necessarily a bad thing.

Coolio

Everything I cook tastes better than yo' momma's nipples.

Clive Barker

You have to taste the sour urine before you break the jug.

Alphonse de Lamartine

All our tastes are but reminiscences.

Rita Mae Brown

If you like my novels, I commend your good taste.

Smokey Robinson

A taste of honey is worse than none at all.

Noah Baumbach

Defining yourself by your taste is easier than defining yourself by any genuine stance on something.

John Waters

To understand bad taste one must have very good taste.