Being Sad Quotes - Page 4

• 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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• Wholeness is not achieved by cutting off a portion of one’s being, but by integration of the contraries.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Cutting, Being Lonely

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• because wherever I sat—on the deck of a ship or at a street café in Paris or Bangkok—I would be sitting under the same glass bell jar, stewing in my own sour air.

  Sylvia Plath

  Depression, Glasses, Air

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.94, Hamilton Books

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• Happiness takes work. It doesn't always fall off trees or come easily. You really have to be someone that doesn't fall prey to being sad. I don't want sad, I can't be sad, I don't want to be about sad; I avoid sad. It inherently envelops you, so do everything that you can to escape it all the time.

  Drew Barrymore

  Fall, Tree

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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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• 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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• What's the point of being sad?" he says. "We're here now.

  Emily Giffin

  Emily Giffin (2015). “Borrowed & Blue: Something Borrowed, Something Blue”, p.331, St. Martin's Griffin

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

  Lady Gaga

  Fashion, Saved

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• From the moment we are born, we begin to die.

  Janne Teller

  Moments, Born, Dies

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• We are addicted to being the way we are

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Addiction, Way

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• I miss the comfort in being sad.

  Frances Farmer

  Missing, Comfort

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• I cried at first, and then, it was such a beautiful day, that I forgot to be unhappy.

  Frances Noyes Hart

  Beautiful, Attitude, Feelings

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• Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.

  Victor Hugo

  Melancholy, Pleasure And Happiness

  Victor Hugo (1888). “Toilers of the sea”

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• We all want to do something to mitigate the pain of loss or to turn grief into something positive, to find a silver lining in the clouds. But I believe there is real value in just standing there, being still, being sad.

  John Green

  Sad, Pain, Real

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• So often we try to make other people feel better by minimizing their pain, by telling them that it will get better (which it will) or that there are worse things in the world (which there are). But that's not what I actually needed. What I actually needed was for someone to tell me that it hurt because it mattered. I have found this very useful to think about over the years, and I find that it is a lot easier and more bearable to be sad when you aren't constantly berating yourself for being sad.

  John Green

  Beautiful, Hurt, Pain

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• I never understood the point of being sad when I could choose to be happy

  Megan McCafferty

  Positivity, Choose To Be Happy, Understood

  Megan McCafferty (2007). “Second Helpings: A Jessica Darling Novel”, p.94, Broadway Books

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• Imagine that you had discovered gold or oil on a certain property, and no one else knew about it. Can you see yourself being sad and feeling deprived for having to gather all your resources and sacrifice them in order to buy that property? Hardly. Now you know what it is like to deny yourself, take up your cross, and follow Jesus.

  Dallas Willard

  Jesus, Sacrifice, Order

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• For a moment, I thought of the word happy and it was a word that just, well, it felt like it was visiting me. I knew it wouldn’t last for very long and I’d be sad again and then it would be worse because it’s one thing to be sad and it’s another thing to be sad once you’ve been happy. Being sad after you’ve been happy is the worst thing in the world.

  Benjamin Alire Saenz

  Long, Would Be, World

  Benjamin Alire Sáenz (2013). “Last Night I Sang to the Monster”, p.195, Cinco Puntos Press

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• The world isn't perfect, and some days it wears you down. You can either accept that, and face it, and be a help to others instead of a hindrance. Or you can decide the rules are too tough and they shouldn't apply to you, and you can ignore them and make things harder for everybody else. Sometimes life is about being sad and doing things anyway. Sometimes it's about being hurt and doing things anyway. The point isn't perfection. The point is doing it anyway.

  Chloe Neill

  Hurt, Perfection, Faces

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• As we have said, robust souls are sometimes almost, but not entirely, overthrown by strokes of misfortune....Despair has steps leading upward. From total depression we rise to despondency, from despondency to affliction, from affliction to melancholy. Melancholy is a twilight state in which suffering transmutes into a somber joy....Melancholy is the enjoyment of being sad.

  Victor Hugo

  Twilight, Joy, Soul

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• Brod discovered 613 sadnesses, each perfectly unique, each a singular emotion, no more similar to any other sadness than to anger, ecstasy, guilt, or frustration. Mirror Sadness. Sadness of Domesticated Birds. Sadness of Being Sad in front of One's Parent. Humor Sadness. Sadness of Love Without Release.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Sadness, Frustration, Unique

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.79, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Essentially, if our secrets are secrets because we are told to be ashamed, then we must share them. There is no shame in being sad or struggling or trying to heal. We are all desperate, depraved and sacred. We are all terrible and brillIant. I can list all the things that can make a girl want to escape her own body (re: patriarchy). But I’d rather list all the things that make me want to stay in my body, and adorn it like a home, rub oils into my skin, tell it how sorry I am for trying to leave, for trying to hurt it into submission

  Warsan Shire

  Girl, Hurt, Sorry

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