Sadness Quotes - Page 20

• ...to make art is to realize another's sadness within, realize the hidden sadness in other people's lives, to feel sad with and for a stranger.

  Marianne Wiggins

  Art, People, Realizing

  Marianne Wiggins (2008). “The Shadow Catcher: A Novel”, p.79, Simon and Schuster

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• I couldn’t help but think about school and everything else ending. I liked standing just outside the couches and watching them—it was a kind of sad I didn’t mind, and so I just listened, letting all the happiness and the sadness of this ending swirl around in me, each sharpening the other. For the longest time, it felt kind of like my chest was cracking open, but not precisely in an unpleasant way.

  John Green

  Real, School, Thinking

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.215, A&C Black

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• She knew that there were all kinds of ways to make a conquest and that one of the surest roads to a woman's genitals was through her sadness.

  Milan Kundera

  Way, Kind, Conquest

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• Once there had been joy, but now there was only sadness, and it was not, he knew, alone the sadness of an empty house; it was the sadness of all else, the sadness of the Earth, the sadness of the failures and the empty triumphs.

  Clifford D. Simak

  House, Joy, Earth

  Clifford D. Simak (2015). “City”, p.207, Open Road Media

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• There is nothing else for people to do. They do not think. They feel no passion, no hatred, no sadness; they feel nothing but fear, and a desire to control. So they watch, and poke, and pry.

  Lauren Oliver

  Passion, Thinking, People

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.365, Hachette UK

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• Much of my life had been devoted to trying not to cry in front of people who loved me, so I knew what Augustus was doing. You clench your teeth. You look up. You tell yourself that if they see you cry, it will hurt them, and you will be nothing but a Sadness in their lives, and you must not become a mere sadness, so you will not cry, and you say all of this to yourself while looking up at the ceiling, and then you swallow even though your throat does not want to close and you look at the person who loves you and smile.

  John Green

  Hurt, Love You, People

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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

  People, Being Sad, Wish

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

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• People once believed that when someone dies, a crow carries their soul to the land of the dead. But sometimes, something so bad happens that a terrible sadness is carried with it and the soul can't rest. Then sometimes, just sometimes, the crow can bring that soul back to put the wrong things right.

  James O'Barr

  Land, People, Soul

  "The Crow". www.imdb.com. 1994.

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• only adj. thats the dilemma isn't it? when you're single, there's the sadness and joy of only me. And when you're paired, there's the sadness and joy of only you.

  David Levithan

  Joy, Dilemma

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.145, Macmillan

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• Life is but a sleep disturbed by dreaming, prompted by the will; the saddened soul with sadness hides it's secrets, and the gay, with thrill.

  Khalil Gibran

  Dream, Sleep, Gay

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• Being tired of all illusions and of everything about illusions – the loss of illusions, the uselessness of having them, the prefatigue of having to have them in order to lose them, the sadness of having had them, the intellectual shame of having had them knowing that they would have to end this way.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Tired, Loss, Order

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• In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality. It is as final as the mountains: a fact. There it is. When you realize it you cannot complain.

  William S. Burroughs

  Mountain, Complaining, Finals

  William S Burroughs (2012). “Queer: 25th Anniversary Edition”, p.141, Penguin UK

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• I didn't like the way I looked, the way I dressed and moved, what I achieved and what I felt I was worth. But there was so much energy in me, such belief that one day I'd be handsome and clever and superior and admired, such anticipation when I met new people and new situations. Is that what makes me sad? The eagerness and belief that filled me then and exacted a pledge from life that life could never fulfill? Sometimes I see the same eagerness and belief in the faces of children and teenagers and the sight brings back the same sadness I feel in remembering myself.

  Bernhard Schlink

  Children, Clever, Teenager

  Bernhard Schlink (2001). “The Reader”, p.38, Vintage

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• You can’t know, sweetie, because you’ve never had a baby become a brilliant young reader with a side interest in horrible television shows, but the joy you bring us is so much greater than the sadness we feel about your illness.

  John Green

  Baby, Joy, Television

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.103, Penguin

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• (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadness)

  Jean Sasson

  Grief, Faces, Lifetime

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• And even sadness was also something for rich people, for people who could afford it, for people who didn't have anything better to do. Sadness was a luxury.

  Clarice Lispector

  Luxury, People, Rich

  Clarice Lispector (2017). “Hour of the Star”, p.50, Penguin UK

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• The times that were most fun seemed always to be followed by sadness now, because it was when life started to feel like it did when she was with us that we realized how utterly gone she was.

  John Green

  Fun, Gone, Feels

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.144, Penguin

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• Gentle lady, do not sing Sad songs about the end of love; Lay aside sadness and sing How love that passes is enough. Sing about the long deep sleep Of lovers that are dead, and how In the grave all love shall sleep: Love is aweary now.

  James Joyce

  Song, Sleep, Love Is

  James Joyce (2013). “Four Novels by James Joyce”, p.1674, eBookIt.com

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• And I believe happiness is the exact opposite of sadness, bitterness, and hatred: happiness should remain unexamined as long as possible.

  Stephen King

  Believe, Opposites, Long

  Stephen King (2016). “The Tommyknockers”, p.292, Simon and Schuster

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• Christ walked the path every mortal is called to walk so that he would know how to succor and strengthen us in our most difficult times. He knows the deepest and most personal burdens we carry. He knows the most public and poignant pains we bear. He descended below al such grief in order that he might lift us above it. There is no anguish or sorrow or sadness in life that he has not suffered in our behalf and borne away upon his own valiant and compassionate shoulders.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Pain, Grief, Order

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• For reasons he couldn’t understand a sadness came over him and it was then he saw the girl standing on the other side of the dirt road, her eyes pools of absolute sorrow, her light brown hair glowing in the splinters of sunlight that forced their way through the trees.

  Melina Marchetta

  Girl, Eye, Hair

  Melina Marchetta (2010). “Jellicoe Road”, p.31, Harper Collins

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• I feel an overwhelming rush of sadness... I'm just struck with a sense of time passing so quickly, rushing forward. One day I'll wake up and my whole life will be behind me, and it will seem to have gone as quickly as a dream.

  Lauren Oliver

  Dream, Rushing, One Day

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.221, Hachette UK

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• Just the sound of his voice twists my stomach into a knot of unpleasant emotions like guilt, sadness and fear. And longing. I might as well admit there’s some of that too.

  Suzanne Collins

  Voice, Guilt, Twists

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.14, Scholastic Inc.

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• After such an emotional day with her own parents, the thought nearly brought Luce to her knees with sadness. Daniel was alone in the world.

  Lauren Kate

  Emotional, Parent, World

  Lauren Kate (2011). “The Fallen Sequence: An Omnibus Edition”, p.230, Delacorte Press

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• You have to protect yourself from sadness. Sadness is very close to hate. Let me tell you this. This is the thing I learned. If you take in someone else's poison – thinking you can cure them by sharing it – you will instead store it within you. Those men in the desert were smarter than you. They assumed he could be useful. So they saved him, but when he was no longer useful they left him.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Hate, Men, Thinking

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