Sadness Quote by Carson McCullers

“She did not know why it seemed to her so tragic to cry in her sleep.”

— W. Somerset Maugham

“Still, there was a bored sadness to her. And a resignation I’d seen on faces my whole life—people giving up, crossing over to that…

— Nic Pizzolatto

“But she knew, though very vaguely, that she was crying, because hope hurts terribly when it breaks through the resignation in which you have…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“It baffled her, the world. She did not want to leave it yet.”

— Elizabeth Strout

“He stilled. He knew she was leaving—this wasn’t a surprise—but how did he tell her he didn’t want her to go? That he wanted…

— Courtney Walsh

“it made her angry, and since she could do nothing with her anger, it made her sad.”

— Deborah Ellis

“And yet, I am left with a kind of sadness that I can't quite explain.”

— Valerie Sherrard

“She was becoming too familiar for her own comfort and peace of mind. It was not despair; but it seemed to her like life…

— Kate Chopin

“Tears filled Claire’s eyes but, as if they knew their place, didn’t leave.”

— Amy Waldman

“Or else she stayed in and nursed a mood with which she was becoming too familiar for her own comfort and peace of mind.…

— Kate Chopin

“That was the problem, she no longer knew what she wanted. (Shrouded in grief and lost dreams, her joy had vanished, the same way…

— Debbie Macomber

“Perhaps the reason she was so unhappy was because she thought unhappy thoughts.”

— Wanda E. Brunstetter