Sadness Quotes
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"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened."
"When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it--always."
"Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad."
"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."
"What you must understand about me is that I’m a deeply unhappy person."
"Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day."
"Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart."
"Don't cry over someone who wouldn't cry over you."
"Tears are words that need to be written."
"She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous strands, appreciating its subtle nuances. She was a prism through which sadness could be divided into its infinite spectrum."
"So it’s true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love."
"Someday, we’ll run into each other again, I know it.Maybe I’ll be older and smarter and just plain better. If that happens,that’s when I’ll deserve you. But now, at this moment, you can’t hook your boat to mine, because I’m liable to sink us both."
"If our destiny stems from our name, then I weep for the flower named Wilt."
"There you go...let it all slide out. Unhappiness can't stick in a person's soul when it's slick with tears."
"I am intrigued by the smile upon your face, and the sadness within your eyes"
"She had loved him for such a long time, she thought. How was it that she did now know him at all?"
"I have so much in me, and the feeling for her absorbs it all; I have so much, and without her it all comes to nothing."
"What greater thing is there for two human souls, than to feel that they are joined for life--to strengthen each other in all labor, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain, to be one with each other in silent unspeakable memories at the moment of the last parting?"
"There is no beauty in sadness. No honor in suffering. No growth in fear. No relief in hate. It’s just a waste of perfectly good happiness."
"Sometimes you weren't supposed to share pain. Sometimes it was best just to deal with it alone."
"Even a fool recognizes that there is great sadness in a bucket of tears. But only a wise man thinks to conserve water and use that bucket to wash his car."
"The world is a sad place today. I miss the good ol’ days. Gosh, why can’t I just go back to last weekend?"
"Peanut butter and jelly is like the older, more serious brother to egg salad sandwich. I’m an only child, so I eat both with incredible sadness."
"I’m feeling morass, when I should be feeling more ass. I can put my sadness behind me with what’s behind you."
"After soul searching, I found myself. Then I found myself giving of myself to a charity that finds missing children. It's great to be found."
"I will be stronger than my sadness."
"I'll sleep forever and meet you in my dreams; it'll hurt less anyway. But the pain of losing you was worth the pleasure of having you, and I rest in bed knowing you'll know for the rest of your life what you are missing.-Karen Quan and Jarod Kintz"
"I wish the night would end,I wish the day'd begin,I wish it would rain or snow,or the wind would blow,or the grass would grow,I wish I had yesterday,I wish there were games to play..."
"I'll never wake up in a good mood again.I'm tired of these stinky boots"
"One of the greatest tragedies in life is to lose your own sense of self and accept the version of you that is expected by everyone else."
"My first feeling was that there was no way to continue. Writing isn't like math;in math, two plus two always equals four no matter what your mood is like. With writing, the way you feel changes everything."
"A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains."
"The trick. . .is to find the balance between the bright colors of humor and the serious issues of identity, self-loathing, and the possibility for intimacy and love when it seems no longer possible or, sadder yet, no longer necessary."
"I waited for dawn, but only because I had forgotten how hard mornings were. For a second I'd be normal. Then came the dim awareness of something off, out of place. Then the truth came crashing down and that was it for the rest of the day. Sunlight was reproof. Shouldn't I feel better than I had in the dead of night."
"I’m learning to play the saxophone so when you feel lonely I can come over and stand in the shadows and play it for you. Two is one too lonely for me."
"After every storm, there is a rainbow. If you have eyes, you will find it. If you have wisdom, you will create it. If you have love for yourself and others, you won’t need it."
"Insecurities have the ability to shape and mold our minds to live with everything that’s bad; like crying on the inside, while smiling on the outside…thus creating pain…but, alas, I have the answer; forget about what you thought and enjoy (embrace) what you feel"
"It would be wrong to refuse to face the fact that everything is fundamentally sick and sad."
"the saddest thing is to bea minute to someone,when you've made them your eternity."
"I cry, but not for myself. There’s too much sadness in this world to waste a moment with self-pity, when making others smile will also make me smile."
"I don't think all writers are sad, she said.I think it's the other way around—all sad people write."
"a flower knows, when its butterfly will return, and if the moon walks out, the sky will understand;but now it hurts, to watch you leave so soon,when I don't know, if you will ever come back."
"Why, then, did I always feel as if his happiness was my responsibility? It wasn't fair for him to burden me with that. It had never been fair."
"At the end of the day your ability to connect with your readers comes down to how you make them feel."
"[A] person whose head is bowed and whose eyes are heavy cannot look at the light."
"Some things take so longBut how do I explainWhen not too many peopleCan see we're all the sameAnd because of all their tearsYour eyes can't hope to seeThe beauty that surrounds themNow, isn't it a pity"
"A tragedy need not have blood and death; it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy."
"What a sad story, I thought for so long. Not that I now think it was happy. But I think it is true, and thus the question of whether it is sad or happy has no meaning whatever."
"Tell the truth through whichever veil comes to hand – but tell it. Resign yourself to the lifelong sadness that comes from never being satisfied."
"The person you hurt the most in this world was the person that brought you into it."
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