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Sadness Quotes by Rainer Maria Rilke
- It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished…
- You have had many sadnesses, large ones, which passed. ... But please, ask yourself whether these large sadnesses haven't rather gone right through you [that…
- Only those sadnesses are dangerous and bad which one carries about among people in order to drown them out.
- If only it were possible for us to see farther than our knowledge reaches, and even a little beyond the outworks of our presentiment, perhaps…
- Do not assume that he who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His…
- The only sadnesses that are dangerous and unhealthy are the ones that we carry around in public in order to drown them out with the…
- So you mustn't be frightened, dear Mr. Kappus, if a sadness rises in front of you, larger than any you have ever seen; if an…
- Were it possible for us to see further than our knowledge reaches, and yet a little way beyond the outworks of our divinings, perhaps we…
- You have had many and great sadnesses, which passed. And you say that even this passing was hard for you and put you out of…
- The only sadnesses that are dangerous and unhealthy are the ones that we carry around in public in order to drown them out with the…
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