Quotes about sadness
sadness passion men
There is nothing so insupportable to man as to be in entire repose, without passion, occupation, amusement, or application. Then it is that he feels his own nothingness, isolation, insignificance, dependent nature, powerless, emptiness. Immediately there issue from his soul ennui, sadness, chagrin, vexation, despair. Blaise Pascal
sadness reflecting-upon ruins
The only thing which consoles for our miseries is diversion, and yet this is the greatest of our miseries. For it is this which principally hinders us from reflecting upon ourselves and which makes us imperceptibly ruin ourselves.
sadness boredom mind
Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not 'yours,' not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you. Eckhart Tolle
sadness thoughtful men
Gradually, everything that happens in the world is coming to be of interest everywhere in the world, and, gradually, thoughtful men and women everywhere are sitting in judgment upon the conduct of all nations. Elihu Root
sadness thinking opposites
Personally, I didn't think there was anything wrong with sadness. Just the opposite – hypocrisy made people happy and truth made them sad. Elif Safak
sadness home thinking
exile is strangely compelling to think about but terrible to experience. It is the unhealable rift forced between a human being and a native place, between the self and its true home: its essential sadness can never be surmounted. And while it is true that literature and history contain heroic, romantic, glorious, even triumphant episodes in an exile’s life, these are no more than efforts meant to overcome the crippling sorrow of estrangement. Edward Said
sadness men diminish
Sadness diminishes a man's powers Baruch Spinoza
sadness sometimes
Even though sometimes you can control your anger, you can't control your sadness. Barbara Park
sadness skins miles
I walked a thousand miles just to slip this skin. Bruce Springsteen
sadness sky sorrow
Sky of blackness and sorrow, sky of love, sky of tears. Sky of glory and sadness, sky of mercy, sky of fear.
sadness emotion sin
I shouldn't have named the chimps. It wasn't scientific. I didn't know. I knew nothing. And worse sin of all was that I was ascribing to them emotions like happiness, sadness and so forth. Jane Goodall
sadness men paris
When we arrived in London, my sadness at leaving Paris was turned into despair. After my long stay in the French capital, huge, ponderous, massive London seemed to me as ugly a thing as man could contrive to make. James Weldon Johnson
sadness blood body
...the human body is mostly blood and mystery and sadness... Charles Bukowski
sadness thinking sick
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.
sadness cutting apples
I could no more have stopped myself from feeling that sadness than you could stop yourself from smelling an apple that has been cut open on the table before you. Arthur Golden
sadness heavy-things heavy
Sadness was a very heavy thing.
sadness way world
The way sadness works is one of the strangest riddles of the world. Daniel Handler
sadness truth-is series-of-unfortunate-events
The sad truth is the truth is sad.
sadness waterfalls watches
Watch waterfalls of pity roar, you feel to moan but unlike before, you discover that you'd just be one more person crying. Bob Dylan
sadness blue tangled
Lord knows I've paid my dues getting through, tangled up in blue.
sadness eden bird
As he weeps to wicked birds of prey, who pick up on his bread crumb sins, and there are no sins inside the Gates of Eden.
sadness heart screws
A cork screw to my heart, ever since we've been apart.
sadness thinking sad-life
Nothing is miserable unless you think it so. Boethius
sadness mean las-vegas
Vegas means comedy, tragedy, happiness and sadness all at the same time. Artie Lange
sadness
And happiness is always louder than sadness. Deborah Harkness
sadness years next
Happiness comes in moments, & then it's gone until the next time. Could be years. But sadness settles it. Dennis Lehane
sadness looks trouble
You can't out-travel sadness. I travel not to get away from my troubles but to see how they look in front of famous buildings Elizabeth McCracken
sadness thinking people
Some people habitually wear sadness, like a garment, and think it a becoming grace. God loves a cheerful worshipper. Edwin Hubbel Chapin
sadness sorrow cures
The cure for sorrow is to learn something. Barbara Sher
sadness yesterday live-in-the-moment
If you're hung up on nostalgia, pretend today is yesterday and just go out and have one hell of a time. Art Buchwald
sadness home ice
It is always sad when someone leaves home, unless they are simply going around the corner and will return in a few minutes with ice-cream sandwiches.
sadness luxury people
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. Clarice Lispector
sadness shopping roots
How can money be the root of all evil when shopping is the cure for all sadness? Elizabeth Taylor