Sad Quotes - Page 10

• O Captain! My Captain! our fearful trip is done.

  Walt Whitman

  Inspirational, Death, Sailing

  "O Captain! My Captain!" l. 1 (1871)

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• If self-validation were our most significant societal measure - we would give trophies to ourselves.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Self, Validation, Giving

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• Jealousy is the result of one's lack of self-confidence, self-worth, and self-acceptance.

  Sasha Azevedo

  Jealousy, Self Confidence, Acceptance

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It weren’t too loo long before I seen something in me, had changed. A bitter seed was planted inside of me. And I just didn’t feel so, accepting, anymore.

  Kathryn Stockett

  Depression, Long, Bitter

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• As I've gotten older, I find I am able to be nourished more by sorrow and to distinguish it from depression.

  Robert Bly

  Sorrow, Able

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• When the heart grows weary, all things seem dreary; When the burden grows heavy, the way seems long. Thank God for sending kind death as an ending, Like a grand Amen to a minor song.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Song, Heart, Long

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.1451, Delphi Classics

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• Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.

  James Thurber

  Death, Desire, Inability

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• Melancholy: an appetite no misery satisfies.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Misery, Melancholy, Appetite

  Emile M. Cioran (1999). “All Gall is Divided: Gnomes and Apothegms”, p.51, Arcade Publishing

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• I know what it's like to have someone coming home who looks at you not in the way they used to in the old days, and I've seen my own face contorted with sadness and rage in the mirror.

  Jane Birkin

  Home, Mirrors, Looks

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• Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

  William Goldman

  Life, Death, Failure

  William Goldman (2013). “The Princess Bride: An Illustrated Edition of S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure”, p.364, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I'll never wake up in a good mood again. I'm tired of these stinky boots

  Jim Morrison

  Tired, Wake Up, Boots

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• All good things must come to an end.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Good Night, Goodnight, Gossip Girl

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• . . . owning a dog always ended with this sadness because dogs just don't live as long as people do.

  John Grogan

  Dog, Long, People

  John Grogan (2008). “Marley & Me tie-in: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog”, William Morrow Paperbacks

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• Tears come from the heart and not from the brain

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Life, Passion

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.329, GENERAL PRESS

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• Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Business, Lying, Creativity

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.37, Beacon Press

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• I know that it's easier to look at death than it is to look at pain, because while death is irrevocable, and the grief will lessen in time, pain is too often merely relentless and irreversible.

  Robert Goolrick

  Pain, Grief, Loss

  Robert Goolrick (2008). “The End of the World as We Know It: Scenes from a Life”, p.213, Algonquin Books

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• When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.

  Winston Churchill

  Witty, Powerful, War

  Winston Churchill (1959). “Memoirs of the Second World War: An Abridgement of the Six Volumes of the Second World War”

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• I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.

  John Keats

  Depression, Water, Kick Ass

  Letter to Benjamin Bailey, 25 May 1818, in H. E. Rollins (ed.) 'The Letters of John Keats' (1958) vol. 1, p. 287

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• Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity.

  William Wordsworth

  Nature, Dark, Suffering

  'The Borderers' (1842) act 3, l. 1539

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• I found more joy in sorrow than you could find in joy.

  Sara Teasdale

  Joy, Sorrow, Found

  Sappho, Emily Dickinson, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Amy Lowell, Sara Teasdale (2018). “Wild Nights: Heart Wisdom from Five Women Poets”, p.94, Courier Dover Publications

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• In depression . . . faith in deliverance, in ultimate restoration, is absent. The pain is unrelenting, and what makes the condition intolerable is the foreknowledge that no remedy will come - - not in a day, an hour, a month, or a minute . . . It is hopelessness even more than pain that crushes the soul.

  William Styron

  Depression, Crush, Pain

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• Depression is the flaw in love. To be creatures who love, we must be creatures who can despair at what we lose, and depression is the mechanism of that despair.

  Andrew Solomon

  Depression, Despair, Flaws

  Andrew Solomon (2014). “The Noonday Demon: An Atlas Of Depression”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• Sometimes one has simply to endure a period of depression for what it may hold of illumination if one can live through it, attentive to what it exposes or demands.

  May Sarton

  Depression, Illumination, Demand

  May Sarton (2014). “Journal of a Solitude”, p.8, Open Road Media

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• Grieve not that I die young.
  Is it not well to pass away
  ere life hath lost its brightness?

  Lady Flora Hastings

  Grieving, Passing Away, Brightness

  Swan Song

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• When you get the choice to sit it out or dance, I hope you dance.

  Lee Ann Womack

  Life, Strength, Dance

  Song: I Hope You Dance, Album: I Hope You Dance

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