Pockets Quote by Dani Shapiro

The trouble with a great sadness is that it doesn't fit inside your body.

— Manuel Rivas

I felt a bottomless sadness. So completely alone. Like one of my stuffed animals at home that I was too old for now, that…

— Augusten Burroughs

When I was really sad, I would be like a little kid wiggling a loose tooth or touching a sore spot - there were…

— Claire Dederer

You really didn't see the sadness or the longing unless you already knew it was there. But that was the trick, wasn't it? Everyone…

— Maggie Stiefvater

I spent my childhood alone, overweight and ugly, angry at everything, and knowing nothing of a life beyond this sadness.

— Gloria Estefan

I was caught in a private cycle of sadness and the only conceivable relief I could find was in the telling.

— Kate Mulgrew

Sadness is just a place on the map. Don't try to avoid it, resist it or escape through substances. Settle it, allow it, and…

— Marianne Williamson

Sadness was a very heavy thing.

— Arthur Golden

My heart was in a perpetual state of sadness and the only relief I could find were in those cathartic cries. I lived a…

— Anonymous

I learned that my sadness never destroyed what was great about me. You just have to go back to that greatness, find that one…

— Lady Gaga

There was a sadness over me, a melancholy. That's always been a part of me - those are some of the things that lead…

— Mahershala Ali

As reason returned to me, memory came with it, and I saw that even on the worst days, when I thought I was utterly…

— Maurice Blanchot