Sandra Cisneros Quotes About Sadness

Quotes about: Sadness

• You can never have too much sky . You can fall asleep and wake up drunk on sky, and sky can keep you safe when you are sad. Here there is too much sadness and not enough sky. Butterflies too are few and so are flowers and most things that are beautiful. Still, we take what we can get and make the best of it.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Beautiful, Flower, Fall

  FaceBook post by Sandra Cisneros from Jun 25, 2010

• Once you can open yourself to joy, you feel as if you've transformed your sadness into illumination, which is really all that art is. All we want to do is transform the negative emotions into light. We want to compost them into light.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Art, Sadness, Light

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• When you have your heart broken wide, you are also open to things of beauty as well as things of sadness. Once people are not here physically, the spiritual remains, we still connect, we can communicate, we can give and receive love and forgiveness. There is love after someone dies.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Spiritual, Sadness, Heart

  "Sandra Cisneros writes fable for grieving grown-ups". Interview with Cindy Y. Rodriguez, www.cnn.com. October 23, 2012.

• We changed it to emocionó, the way you say in Spanish, "to emotion me" [to be moved]. That, as opposed to "haunt." We wanted the feeling of sadness and grief and obsession, so we used emocionó.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Grief, Sadness, Feelings

  "Talking in Our Pajamas". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. Summer, 2008.

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