“The world where you would go hand in hand with the flower maiden has neither perfect happiness nor joy nor life. This… — Keiko Nobumoto Copy Share Image
In 1982, I wrote in my diary that life is motion, not joy. If the way you measure success in life is… — Mario Cuomo Copy Share Image
“Really it is one truth, sometimes seen as happiness and other times as suffering. In reality, pleasure and pain are just our… — Osho Copy Share Image
“I guess it's better to have a chalk smile, than an ink smile. Where chalk changes with the direction of wind, ink… — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
“Slowed down by a sense of hopelessness in all his decisions and movements, he suffered from bitter sadness, and his incapacity solidified… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
“Ricky just listens. He isn't shocked. He isn't surprised. He listens to me because he knows. He knows the shame and the… — Emily Andrews Copy Share Image
One leaf left on a branch and not a sound of sadness or despair. One leaf left on a branch and no… — David Ignatow Copy Share Image
“Her sadness had given her a serenity which had not been there before. It was as if she had learned a hard… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“Desdemona, mourning her parents, was still imprisoned by the past. And so she stood on the mountain, looking down at the emancipated… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
Faking a smile can only hurt yourself, with so much problem to fear and so much pain to bear. At the end,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Dear my brothers there is no more room for wanting to be a thug, BUT there is PLENTY of room for being… — Surgeo Bell Copy Share Image
“There are certain levels of sadness that introduce you to parts of yourself you never knew existed, and it’s always a much… — Ibraheem Hamdi Copy Share Image
I always believed that I had to pretend to be happy. But what I've learned is that it doesn't matter what race… — Adwoa Aboah Copy Share Image
Boys and girls in America have such a sad time together; sophistication demands that they submit to sex immediately without proper preliminary… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
You can't love a person till you know him or her inside out, until you've lived with them and shared experience: sadness,… — Stan Barstow Copy Share Image
Love and happiness is like a lamplight. Its mostly shaded, hidden from seeing its true beauty but only sometimes can it be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When he woke up in the hospital, dry, and saw Sylvie on a chair next to him, his first thought was that… — Ann Napolitano Copy Share Image
“And I loved you I loved you so There were times I forgot to breathe Waiting for the phone call For the… — Veronika Jensen Copy Share Image
“A hundred years or more, she's bent her crown in storm, in sun, in moonsplashed midnight breeze. surviving all the random vagaries… — Lauren Lipton Copy Share Image
“I won't waste your time with the injuries of my childhood, with my loneliness, or the fear and sadness of the years… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
“This susceptibility to impressions had been his undoing, no doubt. Still at his age he had, like a boy or a girl… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
When his age is nothing, but to his parents; it's everything. When his parents try to break you apart. But you love… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Happiness and sadness are just two eternal truths like day and night. A man of superior intellect is never affected by these… — Anand Neelakantan Copy Share Image
“There is only one real misfortune: to forfeit one's own good opinion of oneself. To have lost one's self-respect: that is what… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
Our sadness won’t be of the searing kind but more like a blend of joy and melancholy: joy at the perfection we… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
I believe in the importance of individuality, but in the midst of grief I also find myself wanting connection - wanting to… — Meghan O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“I cannot control my feelings of disappointment, rage, or sadness. When I am confused, I look confused. I’d be a hopeless spy.… — Carrie Adams Copy Share Image
“Unhappiness cannot but draw tighter the bonds which hold us fast to one another,” General Dumas had written to Marie-Louise as he… — Tom Reiss Copy Share Image
As somebody who participates in the overall PC ecosystem, it's totally great when faster wireless networks and standards come out or when… — Gabe Newell Copy Share Image
You who have never “been there” in the throes of grief, have no idea what is going on inside the head of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I wondered if it was possible to take someone's pain away with a kiss. Because that was what i wanted to do,… — Jenny Han Copy Share Image
To my grandma. I love you so much and I will always miss you.You were taken away from us today on Easter… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Back then, come July, and the blazers would again make their way out of the steel trunks and evenings would be spent… — Kunal Sen Copy Share Image
I think the world is like a great mirror, and reflects our lives just as we ourselves look upon it. Those who… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
“I thought I knew damaged. I thought I knew broken. I thought I knew rock bottom. Turns out there’s a whole other… — LP Lovell Copy Share Image
“Joy, anger, sadness, pleasure, love, evil, greed. Where is your heart at? This world is like a furnace you temper yourself, and… — Da Xia Copy Share Image
Being tired of all illusions and of everything about illusions – the loss of illusions, the uselessness of having them, the prefatigue… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Ha Jin writes: 'Some great men and women are fortified and redeemed through their suffering, and they even seek sadness instead of… — David Sheff Copy Share Image
“This history has for so long lived like a spider in my breast. The spider spins and spins, catching memories in its… — Kathleen Kent Copy Share Image
Food became the antidote for feelings of guilt, sadness, and anger. ... Food is a resolution to controversy; food is rescue. We… — Rose Quiello Copy Share Image
