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Sadness Quotes by Jonathan Safran Foer
- SADNESSES OF THE INTELLECT: Sadness of being misunderstood [sic]; Humor sadness; Sadness of love wit[hou]t release; Sadne[ss of be]ing smart; Sadness of not knowing enough…
- Brod discovered 613 sadnesses, each perfectly unique, each a singular emotion, no more similar to any other sadness than to anger, ecstasy, guilt, or frustration.…
- Sadness of love without release.
- You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.
- ...Sadness of not knowing enough words to [express what you mean]...
- I spent my life learning to feel less. Every day I felt less. Is that growing old? Or is it something worse? You cannot protect…
- Songs are as sad as the listener.
- When I was a girl, my life was music that was always getting louder. Everything moved me. A dog following a stranger. That made me…
- Why do beautiful songs make you sad?' 'Because they aren't true.' 'Never?' 'Nothing is beautiful and true.
- I wanted to touch him, to tell him that even if everyone left everyone, I would never leave him, he talked and talked, his words…
- Every widow wakes one morning, perhaps after years of pure and unwavering grieving, to realize she slept a good night's sleep, and will be able…
- She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous strands, appreciating its subtle nuances. She was a prism through which sadness…
- The only way to overcome sadness is to consume it.
- I am always sad, I think. Perhaps this signifies that I am not sad at all, because sadness is something lower than your normal disposition,…
- She let out a laugh, and then she put her hand over her mouth, like she was angry at herself for forgetting her sadness.
More Sadness Quotes
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside… — Lance Armstrong
- Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery. — Matthew Arnold
- The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. — Isaac Asimov
- Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears. — Marcus Aurelius
- Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery. — Jane Austen
- I really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger, rage, fear, sadness. I don't think… — Kevin Bacon
- I think we all have a lot of darkness in our bellies. As an actor, the challenge of tapping into that, reaching… — Kevin Bacon
- Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably… — Hans Urs von Balthasar
- Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable. — L. Frank Baum
- When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do… — Alexander Graham Bell
- When Whitney Houston died, I felt great sadness. My sadness, of course, was about our collective loss - when you listened to… — James Belushi