Sadness Quotes
3015 Sadness quotes by 1610 unique authors
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Thinking that it would console him, she took a piece of charcoal and erased the innumerable loves that he still owed her for, and she…
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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We all build internal sea walls to keep at bay the sadnesses of life and the often overwhelming forces within our minds. In whatever way…
— Kay Redfield Jamison
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Of all the miracles Po had seen in the time and space of its death, Po thought this--the absorption of another, the carrying of it--was…
— Lauren Oliver
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And happiness is always louder than sadness.
— Deborah Harkness
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...I have so many dreams of my own, and I remember things from my childhood, from when I was a girl and a young woman,…
— Shin Kyung-sook
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Because beyond their practical function, all gestures have a meaning that exceeds the intention of those who make them; when people in bathing suits fling…
— Milan Kundera
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Somewhere in him, a shadow turned mournfully over. You had to run with a night like this so the sadness could not hurt
— Ray Bradbury
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Words are tears that have been written down. Tears are words that need to be shed. Without them, joy loses all its brilliance and sadness…
— Paulo Coelho
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She had a sadness that was so deep, but it still could turn to light in a second,and when I saw her smile I wondered…
— Laini Taylor
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It gave me a sharp kind of sadness to think that no matter how much I loved him and tried to put him back together…
— Paula McLain
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I was always either so unreasonably and pointlessly happy that no one place could seem to contain me, or so melancholy, so sick and silly…
— David Foster Wallace
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Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others. Their fear is only their inability to…
— Charles Bukowski
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Watch out for each other. Love everyone and forgive everyone, including yourself. Forgive your anger. Forgive your guilt. Your shame. Your sadness. Embrace and open…
— Jim Henson
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But for a moment Dirk had a sense of inifinite loss and sadness that somewhere among the frenzy of information noise that daily rattled the…
— Douglas Adams
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More than anything, I felt the unfairness of it, the inarguable injustice of loving someone who might have loved you back but can't due to…
— John Green
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Sadness is silent, it is yours. It is coming because you are alone. It is giving you a chance to go deeper into your aloneness.…
— Rajneesh
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I think there is something beautiful in reveling in sadness. The proof is how beautiful sad songs can be. So I don’t think being sad…
— Joseph Gordon-Levitt
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Bridget's anger evaporated and the sadness came back. The anger was easier. She owned and contolled it, whereas the sadness owned her.
— Ann Brashares
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I looked into his eyes, and I realized he was the same man I'd seen in my dreams. His face might be totally different, but…
— Rick Riordan
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Who in the world has not yearned for a loved one, has never said, If only he or she could come back just once, just…
— Ismail Kadaré
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It’s so difficult to describe depression to someone who’s never been there, because it’s not sadness. I know sadness. Sadness is to cry and to…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Yes, you should talk," he said. "Sometimes a sad man can talk the sadness right out through his mouth. Sometimes a killin' man can talk…
— John Steinbeck
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None will ever be a true Parisian who has not learned to wear a mask of gaiety over his sorrows and one of sadness, boredom,…
— Gaston Leroux
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...to make art is to realize another's sadness within, realize the hidden sadness in other people's lives, to feel sad with and for a stranger.
— Marianne Wiggins
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Divorce has taught us how to sleep with friends, sleep with enemies, and then act like it's all perfectly normal in the morning.
— Elizabeth Wurtzel
Who Wrote These Sadness Quotes
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