Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cassandra Clare

They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite

Evander Holyfield

Deep down, I reckon the sweetest moment will come when it's finally all over. When, at last, I know that I can stop fighting. Of course it'll also be a little sad. The sweetest moments, y'know, always come with just a little sadness.

Mickey Rooney

Look, I come from vaudeville, I come from burlesque, I come from heartaches, I come from sadness, I come from gladness, I come from work and sweat and respect for the craft.

Kim Wilde

There is sadness and confusion in our hearts / And the world prepares to fight / as it tears itself apart, it isn't fair

Ozzy Osbourne

The birth of a doubt that was once your belief is drowning in the tears that you cry.

Mark Helprin

I have to confess that I have so rarely experienced triumph that I cannot claim to know it well enough to judge, but it seems to be at best a momentary joy followed instantly by sadness, and, then, of necessity, by wariness.

Mark Haddon

Sometimes we get sad about things and we don't like to tell other people that we are sad about them. We like to keep it a secret. Or sometimes, we are sad but we really don't know why we are sad, so we say we aren't sad but we really are.

Paul Goldberger

Architecture begins to matter when it brings delight and sadness and perplexity and awe along with a roof over our heads.

The whole world can become the enemy when you lose what you love.

Kristin Hannah

And maybe that was how it was supposed to be...Joy and sadness were part of the package; the trick, perhaps,was to let yourself feel all of it, but to hold on to the joy just a little more tightly...

Katherine Mansfield

there does seem to me something sad in life. It is hard to say what it is. I don't mean the sorrow that we all know, like illness and poverty and death. No, it is something different. It is there, deep down, deep down, part of one, like one's breathing.

Keith Richards

Whatever side I take, I know well that I will be blamed.

Krista Tippett

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.

Kris Kristofferson

The world he saw was sadder than the one he hoped to find. But it wasn't near as lonesome as the one he left behind.

Mark Twain

The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

Marilyn Monroe

I could have loved you once And said it But then you went away And when you came back Love was a forgotten word, Remember?

Marilyn Monroe

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

Nikki Giovanni

I'm a big fan of history - applying the lessons as well as the joys and sadness. If we pay attention, we would see how we affect each other. In terms of time, we are not that far from one another. If we were to look back a century, it would seem like a long time; but, if we look at it by decades then it's only 10 years, and by generations it's only five.

Nick Hornby

Everything's complicated, even those things that seem flat in their bleakness or sadness.

Mark Twain

We often feel sad in the presence of music without words; and often more than that in the presence of music without music.

Mikey Way

As long as we stick together , we can smash the sadness

Marian Wright Edelman

So much of the deep lingering sadness over President Kennedy's assassination is about the unfinished promise: unspoken speeches, unfulfilled hopes, the wondering about what might have been.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.

Marguerite Duras

That she had so completely recovered her sanity was a source of sadness to her. One should never be cured of one's passion.

Ned Vizzini

I can't eat and I can't sleep. I'm not doing well in terms of being a functional human, you know?

Ned Vizzini

I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad. It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare you're so relieved. I woke up into a nightmare.

Miriam Toews

I had a thought, on the way home from the rock field, that the things we don't know about a person are the things that make them human, and it made me feel sad to think that, but sad in that reassuring way that some sadness has, a sadness that says welcome home in twelve different languages.

Leonardo da Vinci

Tears come from the heart and not from the brain

Oscar Wilde

How else but through a broken heart may Lord Christ enter in?

Oswald Chambers

Naturally, we are inclined to be so mathematical and calculating that we look upon uncertainty as a bad thing...Certainty is the mark of the common-sense life. To be certain of God means that we are uncertain in all our ways, we do not know what a day may bring forth. This is generally said with a sigh of sadness; it should rather be an expression of breathless expectation.

Laurence J. Peter

May your happiest days of the past be your saddest days of your future.

Lauren Myracle

So as a seventh grader, no, you weren't friends with people you didn't like. But sometimes you also weren't friends with people you did like, which was complicated, and which didn't make any sense if you tried to explain it. Sometimes things just changed. That's where the sadness came in.

Lauren Oliver

I'm overwhelmed with sadness for everything that was lost, and filled with anger toward the people who took it away. My people-or at least, my old people. I don't know who I am anymore, or where I belong. That's not totally true...I know I belong with Alex.