Sadness Quotes - Page 8

• For a human being, sadness is as powerful as terror. Sadness makes a warrior shed tears of blood.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Powerful, Warrior, Blood

  Carlos Castaneda (2013). “Eagle's Gift”, p.143, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm unhappy as Dylan Thomas was, because I'm not, but I've had my brushes with sadness.

  Tom Hollander

  Unhappy, Brushes, Dylan

  Source: collider.com

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• Sadness of any sort is also seductive, particularly if it seems deep-rooted, even spiritual, rather than needy or pathetic—it makes people come to you.

  Robert Greene

  Spiritual, People, Seductive

  Robert Greene (2010). “The Art Of Seduction”, p.76, Profile Books

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• I was caught in a private cycle of sadness and the only conceivable relief I could find was in the telling.

  Kate Mulgrew

  Relief, Caught, Cycles

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• I felt a bottomless sadness. So completely alone. Like one of my stuffed animals at home that I was too old for now, that sat on the shelf in my closet, mashed against the back wall.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Wall, Home, Animal

  Augusten Burroughs (2010). “Running with Scissors: A Memoir”, p.68, Macmillan

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• The sadness of the end of a career of an older athlete, with the betrayal of his body, is mirrored in the rest of us. Consciously or not, we know: there, soon, go I.

  Ira Berkow

  Betrayal, Athlete, Careers

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• The older I get the more I realize that a significant portion of a parent's happiness or sadness in middle-age will be directly impacted by how closely our children are walking with the Lord.

  Gary L. Thomas

  Children, Realizing, Lord

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• That's the thing about love - it's full of possibilities. It can lead you down so many different paths. Sure, for some of us, it can lead to sadness and regret. But, for others, well, for others it can lead them to the greatest future they could've ever hoped for. Love is the most possible thing in the world.

  Melissa Brown

  Regret, Love Is, Different

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• Happiness and sadness are just two eternal truths like day and night. A man of superior intellect is never affected by these emotions. They are not base emotions at all but a reflection of our thoughts, a reaction to our perspective on things we see, hear and do. Equanimity is not only desirable in a warrior, but a must. Without it, you are as good as dead in the battlefield.

  Anand Neelakantan

  Warrior, Night, Men

  Anand Neelakantan (2012). “ASURA: Tale of the Vanquished”, p.36, LEADSTART PUBLISHING PVT LTD

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• There is sadness of when you're watching someone enjoy something that you think is substandard. The ineffable sadness when someone is happy and something is not as good as it should be.

  Steven Soderbergh

  Thinking, Ineffable, Should

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• The sadness from reading letters that you know you can't help because it's a person who's in extremis and their problems are not soluble by an advice column.

  Emily Yoffe

  Reading, Advice, Letters

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• Your perspective is vital to your happiness. Some, blind to the bountiful opportunities around them, live lives of sadness and despair with brief moments of joy. Be alive to the abundant potential that surrounds you so that you live a life of peace and happiness with periods of challenging growth.

  Richard G. Scott

  Live Life, Opportunity, Perspective

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• Like Buddha under the Bo tree, Jesus, on his tree, has his eyes closed too. The difference is this. The pain and sadness of the world that Buddha's eyes close out is the pain and sadness of the world that the eyes of Jesus close in.

  Frederick Buechner

  Jesus, Pain, Eye

  Frederick Buechner, Lee Boltin (1974). “The life of Jesus”, Gramercy

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• I love what movies and television and all that kind of stuff has done to me through the years. I love that it can bring up all these different emotions in me - whether it's anger or happiness or sadness...whatever it may be.

  Kevin Sorbo

  Years, Stuff, Different

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• I can't remember anything without a sadness so deep that it hardly becomes known to me, so deep that its tears leave me a spectator of my own stupidity.

  John Lennon

  Stupidity, Tears, Remember

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• It's one of the great fallacies, it seems to me, that time gives much of anything but years and sadness to man.

  John Steinbeck

  Men, Years, Giving

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.330, Penguin

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• The tiniest criticism or put-down soaks into me and lies in my heart like a stone. Sometimes that spurs me on to work harder, but sometimes it just fills me up with sadness.

  Cathy Cassidy

  Lying, Hard Work, Heart

  Cathy Cassidy (2012). “Chocolate Box Girls: Summer's Dream”, p.40, Penguin UK

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• We spend so much of our passion on our first love. I'm not convinced that it-passion-is one of those things that you have an endless amount of-like happiness or sadness. I could be happy all day. I could be sad all day. But I'm not so sure I'll ever love like that again.

  Laura Miller

  Passion, First Love, Firsts

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• When hints of sadness creep into our soul, we must not flee into happy or distracting thoughts. Pondering the sadness until it becomes overwhelming can lead us to deep change in the direction of our being from self-preservation to grateful worship.

  Larry Crabb

  Grateful, Self, Soul

  Larry Crabb, Lawrence James Crabb (1991). “Inside Out”, NavPress Publishing Group

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• All of the sadness and drama you have lived in your life was rooted in the making of assumptions and taking things personally. The whole world of control between humans is based on that.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Drama, World, Assumption

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• The quieter we are, the more patient and open we are in our sadnesses, the more deeply and serenely the new presence can enter us, and the more we can make it our own, the more it becomes our fate.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Fate, Patient

  Letters to a Young Poet: Letter Eight (12 August 1904), 1934.

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• Depression can kill you. It can also be a spiritually enriching experience. It's really an important part of my theology now and my spirituality that life is not perfect, and I grew up wanting it to be and thinking that if it wasn't, I could make it that way, and I had to acknowledge that I had all kinds of flaws and sadnesses and problems.

  Krista Tippett

  Thinking, Perfect, Important

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• God is not a God of sadness, death, etc., but the devil is. Christ is a God of joy, and so the Scriptures often say that we should rejoice ... A Christian should and must be a cheerful person.

  Martin Luther

  Christian, Joy, Cheerful

  Martin Luther (1967). “Table Talk”

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• How can money be the root of all evil when shopping is the cure for all sadness?

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Shopping, Roots, Evil

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• Allow beauty and sadness to touch you. This is love, not fear.

  Colleen Saidman

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