Being Sad Quotes - Page 2

• For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• Nostalgia is a way of remembering people and places and things, and wishing things hadn't changed. It has a sweetness to it. Sadness is just--well--being sad.

  Linda Lael Miller

  Sadness, People, Wish

  Linda Lael Miller (2011). “Creed's Honor”, p.199, HQN Books

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• Being part of the natural world reminds me that innocence isn't ever lost completely; we just need to maintain our goodness to regain it.

  Jewel

  Lost Friendship, Needs, World

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• If you're immortal, you can imagine being sad or grieving if a lover leaves you. But if everyone were immortal, then that leaving isn't necessarily forever. There's always a chance that you get them back somewhere down the road - you know, in 5, 10, 20,000 years. So I think that the urgency of the moment gets sapped.

  Todd May

  Thinking, Grieving, Years

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• There's a word in Japanese for being sad in the springtime - a whole word for just being sad - about how pretty the flowers are and how soon they're going to die.

  Sarah Ruhl

  Flower, Just Being, Springtime

  Sarah Ruhl (2010). “The Clean House and Other Plays”, p.301, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Singing about your sadness unburdens your soul. But the blues hollers shouted about more than being sad. They were also delivering messages in musical code. If the master was coming, you might sing a hidden warning to the other field hands . . . The blues could warn you what was coming. I could see the blues was about survival.

  B. B. King

  Sadness, Hands, Soul

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• For a human being, sadness is as powerful as terror. Sadness makes a warrior shed tears of blood.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Powerful, Sadness, Warrior

  Carlos Castaneda (2013). “Eagle's Gift”, p.143, Simon and Schuster

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• You're the prettiest when you're happy. Don't use all your energy being sad.

  Burnell Taylor

  Energy, Use, Prettiest

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• Throughout the ordeal, I learned that getting mad was easier than being sad. Anger was something I could control. I could settle into an easy rhythm of blame and hate. Focus my energy on something than the ache in my heart.

  Emily Giffin

  Hate, Heart, Mad

  Emily Giffin (2010). “Baby Proof: A Novel”, p.52, Macmillan

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• What do you know about being sad?' 'I know you don't need a reason.

  Aryn Kyle

  Needs, Reason, Knows

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• The only thing worse than being sad is for others to know you are sad.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Knows, Everything Is Illuminated

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.47, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Unhappy, Reason, Feels

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• Why do people spend their time being sad when they could be happy?

  Andy Warhol

  People

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• I am not sad, he would repeat to himself over and over, I am not sad. As if he might one day convince himself. Or fool himself. Or convince others -- The only thing worse than being sad is for others to know that you are sad.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  One Day, Might, Fool

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.47, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If, as a culture, we don’t bear witness to grief, the burden of loss is placed entirely upon the bereaved, while the rest of us avert our eyes and wait for those in mourning to stop being sad, to let go, to move on, to cheer up. And if they don’t — if they have loved too deeply, if they do wake each morning thinking, I cannot continue to live — well, then we pathologize their pain; we call their suffering a disease. We do not help them: we tell them that they need to get help.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Letting Go, Morning, Cheer

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• One defeats a fanatic precisely by not being a fanatic oneself, but on the contrary by using one's intelligence.

  George Orwell

  Lonely, Atheism, Defeat

  George Orwell, Peter Davison (2013). “George Orwell: A Life in Letters”, p.448, W. W. Norton & Company

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• It's sad when girls think they don't have anything going on except being pretty.

  Keri Russell

  Girl, Thinking, Being Pretty

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think if we all acted the way we felt, four out of eight people at a dinner table would be sitting there sobbing.

  Jim Carrey

  Thinking, Eight, People

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• I love playing football, being out on the pitch with a ball, and I will be a little sad when that ends.

  Dennis Bergkamp

  Sports, Football, Balls

  Interview with Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. April 18, 2004.

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• Being sad with the right people is better than being happy with the wrong ones.

  Philippos Syrigos

  Inspirational, Life, People

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• Be - don't try to become. Being is enlightenment, becoming is ignorance.

  Rajneesh

  Nice, Ignorance, Enlightenment

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• "The best thing for being sad," replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. That's the only thing that never fails.

  T. H. White

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

  "The Book of Merlyn". Book by T. H. White, 1977.

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• The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read.

  Winston Churchill

  Business, Risk, Length

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• I have always been a softie, and I fight it with every fiber of my being.
  Sadly, my being's fibers need to hit the gym.

  Aisha Tyler

  Fighting, Needs, Fiber

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• Nothing big ever came from being small.

  William J. Clinton

  Lonely, Being Lonely, Bigs

  "Schneider's Political Oscars" by Bill Schneider, www.cnn.com. March 24, 1997.

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