Sadnesses Quotes
21 quotes by 12 authors
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Great joys make us love the world. Great sadnesses make us understand the world.
— Kent Nerburn
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One of the great sadnesses of modern life, because of our disenfranchisement and disillusionment with religion, is that we don't have access to these ideas.…
— Russell Brand
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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…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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Tess realized one of the great modern dating sadnesses: everyone is so used to the comforting glow of the computer screen that no one can…
— Amelia Gray
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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…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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Love cannot exist in peace, it will always come accompanied by agonies, ecstasies, intense joys and profound sadnesses.
— Paulo Coelho
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You see, when you're middle class, you have to live with the fact that history will ignore you. You have to live with the fact…
— Douglas Coupland
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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…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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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.…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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Only those sadnesses are dangerous and bad which one carries about among people in order to drown them out.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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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…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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Appalling things can happen to children. And even a happy childhood is filled with sadnesses.
— Mark Haddon
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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…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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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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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…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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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…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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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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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…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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One of my greatest sadnesses at the prospective break-up of the Union is that it will set English, Welsh and Northern Irish against Scots in…
— Rory Bremner
Who Wrote These Sadnesses Quotes
12 authors contributed a total of 21 Sadnesses Quotes as follows: