Sad Quotes - Page 11

• A lot of you cared, just not enough.

  Jay Asher

  Suicide, Tragedy, Apathy

  Jay Asher (2011). “Thirteen Reasons Why”, p.280, Penguin

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• If every day a man takes orders in silence from an incompetent superior, if every day he solemnly performs ritual acts which he privately finds ridiculous, if he unhesitatingly gives answers to questionnaires which are contrary to his real opinions and is prepared to deny his own self in public, if he sees no difficulty in feigning sympathy or even affection where, in fact, he feels only indifference or aversion, it still does not mean that he has entirely lost the use of one of the basic human senses, namely, the sense of humiliation.

  Vaclav Havel

  Sympathy, Real, Mean

  Open letter to Dr. Gustáv Husák, Communist President, April 8, 1975.

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• A Strange melancholy pervades me to which I hesitate to give the grave and beautiful name of sorrow. The idea of sorrow has always appealed to me but now I am almost ashamed of it's complete egoism. I have known boredom, regret, and occasionally remorse, but never sorrow. Today it envelops me like a silken web, enervating and soft, and sets me apart from everybody else.

  Francoise Sagan

  Beautiful, Regret, Names

  FRANCOISE SAGAN (1955). “BONOUR TRISTESSE”

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• I am always sad, I think. Perhaps this signifies that I am not sad at all, because sadness is something lower than your normal disposition, and I am always the same thing. Perhaps I am the only person in the world, then, who never becomes sad. Perhaps I am lucky.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Thinking, Lucky, World

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.227, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I have been smashed and put back together so many times nothing works right. Nothing is where it should be, heavy thumping in my shoulder where my heart now beats.

  Elizabeth Scott

  Heart, Together, Beats

  Elizabeth Scott (2009). “Living Dead Girl”, p.156, Simon and Schuster

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• The way sadness works is one of the strange riddles of the world. If you are stricken with a great sadness, you may feel as if you have been set aflame, not only because of the enormous pain, but also because your sadness may spread over your life, like smoke from an enormous fire.

  Daniel Handler

  Pain, Fire, Over You

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• Heartbreak could be lived with if it weren't accompanied by regret.

  Laura Kasischke

  Motivational, Heartbroken, Regret

  Laura Kasischke (2011). “The Raising”, p.178, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Each departed friend is a magnet that attracts us to the next world.

  Jean Paul

  Friendship, Departed, World

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• What greater pain could mortals have than this: To see their children dead before their eyes?

  Euripides

  Children, Pain, Eye

  Euripides (1958). “Euripides: Rhesus, translated by R. Lattimore. The suppliant women, translated by F. Jones. Orestes, translated by W. Arrowsmith. Iphigenia in Aulis, translated by C. R. Walker”

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• Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore--While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As if some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. "'Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door--Only this and nothing more.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Rap, Doors, Visitors

  "The Raven" l. 1 (1845)

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• Love is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone, what's left tastes bitter.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Love, Gone, Juice

  Bertolt Brecht (1964). “Baal, A Man's a Man, and The Elephant Calf: Early Plays by Bertolt Brecht”

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• She laughed so easily when she was happy. But also when she was sad.

  Janet Fitch

  Laughed

  Janet Fitch (2013). “White Oleander”, p.131, Hachette UK

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• I believe that if I should die, and you were to walk near my grave, from the very depths of the earth I would hear your footsteps.

  Benito Perez Galdos

  Love, Believe, Poetry

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• You eventually erase her contact info from your phone but not the pictures you took of her in bed while she was naked and asleep, never those.

  Junot Diaz

  Breakup, Phones, Bed

  Junot Diaz (2012). “This Is How You Lose Her”, p.112, Faber & Faber

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• One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul, and yet no one ever comes to sit by it.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Lonely, Loneliness, Being Alone

  Letter to Theo van Gogh from Cuesmes, www.vangoghletters.org. June 22-24, 1880.

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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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• You might find it difficult to see anything but your own sadness, the way smoke can cover a landscape so that all anyone can see is black. You may find that if someone pours water all over you, you are damp and distracted, but not cured of your sadness, the way a fire department can douse a fire but never recover what has been burnt down.

  Daniel Handler

  Fire, Water, Over You

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• It is sad but unfortunately true that man learns nothing from history.

  Carl Jung

  Men, Cynical, Memories Dreams Reflections

  Carl Gustav Jung (1981). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Structure and dynamics of the psyche”

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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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• Beauty and sadness always go together. Nature thought beauty too rich to go forth Upon the earth without a meet alloy.

  George MacDonald

  Beauty, Together, Earth

  George MacDonald (1872). “Within and Without”, p.141

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• Sadness usually results from one of the following causes either when a man does not succeed, or is ashamed of his success.

  Seneca the Younger

  Men, Doe, Succeed

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• Man could not live if he were entirely impervious to sadness. Many sorrows can be endured only by being embraced, and the pleasure taken in them naturally has a somewhat melancholy character.

  Emile Durkheim

  Life, Taken, Character

  Emile Durkheim (2005). “Suicide: A Study in Sociology”, p.333, Routledge

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