The old Indian teaching was that is is wrong to tear loose from its place on the earth anything that may be… — Wooden Leg Copy Share Image
Sometimes pain becomes such a huge part of your life that you expect it to always be there, because you can't remember… — Bernajoy Vaal Copy Share Image
Madame V begins the lesson by reading aloud the first stanza of a famous French poem: Il pleure dans mon coeur Comme… — Sonya Sones Copy Share Image
I hate being human, not the fact I hate my humanity. Because I'm in this prison, my bones holding everything together. Breathing… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
The times that were most fun seemed always to be followed by sadness now, because it was when life started to feel… — John Green Copy Share Image
Compassion is a chameleon: it can wear the face of fear, anger, sadness, joy or even dispassion, depending on what's needed at… — Gabrielle Roth Copy Share Image
“I am not, anymore, a Christian, but I am lifted and opened by any space with prayer inside it. I didn’t know… — Mark Doty Copy Share Image
Behind many smiles hide rivers of tears! Never be fooled by a smile! Sometimes people who laugh the most in our presence...Are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The wired feeling that started when I left my house has grown into a thrumming, crackling, electrical field. I want to kiss… — Hilary T. Smith Copy Share Image
No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
“John,” she said, “does it make every one—unhappy when they study and learn lots of things?” He paused and smiled. “I am… — W.E.B. DuBois Copy Share Image
“There were two kinds of hope: the kind you couldn’t do anything about and the kind you could. And even if the… — Rachel Simon Copy Share Image
I have met people that said when their friend was dying, they made them promise that their funeral would be a party… — Andrew W.K Copy Share Image
What is God-given is called nature; to follow nature is called Tao (the Way); to cultivate the way is called culture. Before… — Confucius Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, in the evenings, a damp, gritty wind blew in the windows from Park Avenue, just as the rush hour traffic was… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“He remembered Alejandra and the sadness he'd first seen in the slope of her shoulders which he'd presumed to understand and of… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
I have come to see that our problem is that we don't know what happiness is. We confuse it with a life… — Mark Epstein Copy Share Image
“I believe that sometimes, the moment you say goodbye could be as painful as a lifetime worth of pain that you can… — Bhavya Kaushik Copy Share Image
My grief was a heavy, despairing sadness caused by parting from a companion of many years but, more important, it was a… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
I think of everything as comedy, but I don't think of it in terms of sitcom comedy, I think of it in… — Jeffrey Tambor Copy Share Image
“My mother's death supervened, and this was the greatest blow I had experienced in my life. I worshipped her... I could not… — Salvador Dalí Copy Share Image
Hold the sadness and pain of samsara [suffering, confusion] in your heart and at the same time the power and vision of… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“I stood in my garden as the rain poured down, eyes closed, and when I opened them I thought to myself how… — Sarah Brownlee Copy Share Image
In life there is no fairy tales, no happily ever afters, no prince charming. In life it's reality where you are gonna… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“You can do what you want. You can fly as far as you want, be as determined as you want, but sooner… — Kyra Gregory Copy Share Image
“Well, I will tell you, and you must understand if you can. You belong to a singular race. Every man is a… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Then I...made a list of ways I am going to be this week. I need to cultivate more perspective. I should spend… — Meg Howrey Copy Share Image
“I walk to my car without looking back, and as I drive away, I'm hit with a sudden wave of sadness. But… — Hannah Harrington Copy Share Image
“ To Sycamores I’m sick of Love; O let me lie Under your shades, to sleep or die! Either is welcome; so… — Robert Herrick Copy Share Image
“It was stupid and difficult, it was complicated and exhausting to love in such a way, but it was wonderful. Wonderful was… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“When I look at this world I feel a deep pain. A burden in my soul. This overwhelming sadness threatens to engulf… — David Holdsworth Copy Share Image
“Depression may seem completely useless. Even apart from the risk of suicide, sitting all day morosely staring at the wall can't get… — Randolph M. Nesse Copy Share Image
“In a daydream I used to have, all these places were points of happiness to me; all these places were lifeboats to… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
“I wanted to putt my hand on this hand and hold it still under mine, made still by his made still. Oh… — William Goyen Copy Share Image
People are always telling me to smile, like smiling is going to just take away all the hurt and pain. Well I've… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“He felt a tug of sadness that someone who had seemed so shiningly alive within the small confines of a university community… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
In the end, our tears won't be because of the pain or sadness. It's going to be because of the memories and… — Mahmoud El Hallab Copy Share Image
The end of suffering happens in this very moment, whether you're watching a terrorist attack or doing the dishes. And compassion begins… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
“I have always wanted to go to Trieste because it sounds like tristesse, which is a light-hearted word, even though in French… — Deborah Levy Copy Share Image
I want characters to have voices that feel authentic, unique, honest, fresh and original - all at once. Part of that authenticity… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image