Being Sad Quotes - Page 3

• She said she usually cried at least once each day not because she was sad, but because the world was so beautiful and life was so short.

  Brian Andreas

  Sad, Beauty, Beautiful

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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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• 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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• I'm SO glad I spent 10 years being sad and lonely.

  Caitlin Moran

  Lonely, Years, Glad

  "The Saturday interview: Caitlin Moran". Interview with Aida Edemariam, www.theguardian.com. June 17, 2011.

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• I think people feel safer being sad than they do being joyful.

  Sark

  Thinking, People, Joyful

  Source: www.shift-it-coach.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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• It is quite gratifying to feel guilty if you haven't done anything wrong: how noble! Whereas it is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit guilt and to repent.

  Hannah Arendt

  Depressing, Guilt, Noble

  Hannah Arendt (2006). “Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil”, p.221, Penguin

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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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• 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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• Unfortunately, I think I'm going to be typecast in Hollywood as the kid who can cry. I don't like putting audiences through those emotional ups and downs. I don't want people to think Dana Hill is so depressing all she does is cry. But the parts are so good, I can't turn them down.

  Dana Hill

  Depressing, Kids, Emotional

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• Does Being Happy simply Create More Time, in the way that Being Sad, as we all know, slows time and thickens it, like cornstarch in a sauce?).

  Claire Messud

  Doe, Sauce, Way

  Claire Messud (2013). “The Woman Upstairs”, p.156, Vintage

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

  Winston Churchill

  Business, Risk, Length

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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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• One of the reasons why I fought for my roles is that I think there are so many things about them that are just human, but people like to label them as weird or bad or wrong because they're scared of them. I don't consider them bad - they're girls. They're going to make mistakes, but the films show the repercussions and show that they're going to learn. A lot of people are made to feel bad for being sad, so on top of already being unhappy, you're gonna hate yourself for it.

  Evan Rachel Wood

  Girl, Hate, Mistake

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• Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Sacrifice, Humanity, Purpose

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• Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Spiritual, Cute Friendship, Accepting

  Albert Schweitzer (2014). “A Treasury of Albert Schweitzer”, p.11, Open Road Media

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• I think there is something beautiful in reveling in sadness. The proof is how beautiful sad songs can be. So I don’t think being sad is to be avoided. It’s apathy and boredom you want to avoid. But feeling anything is good, I think. Maybe that’s sadistic of me.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Beautiful, Song, Sadness

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• We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

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• The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Inspirational, Life, Simplicity

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.51, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• Tory a father isn’t supposed to fear his fourteen-year-old daughter. That being sad, you terrify me.

  Kathy Reichs

  Daughter, Father, Years

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• I learned that getting mad was easier than being sad.

  Emily Giffin

  Mad, Easier

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

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• Fashion is that thing that saved me from being sad.

  Lady Gaga

  Fashion, Saved

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