Sadness Quote by Elizabeth Gilbert

He had taken seriously words which were without importance, and it made him very unhappy.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“Spelling and punctuation are completely irrelevant; unless you are hoping to be understood.”

— Henry G. Sheppard

“he came to the conclusion that there was some mysterious connection between cleverness and unhappiness, and thanking his stars that he was neither scholar,…

— Charles Kingsley

“Even as he printed the words, he imagined people reading them, people moved by his loneliness and disappointment, even by his wretched spelling, the…

— Don DeLillo

“You might almost say, that this strange uncompromisedness in him involved a sort of unintelegence; for in his numerous trades, he did not seem…

— Herman Melville

“He had never been good at expressing himself. What he felt was so big it was difficult to find the words, and even if…

— Rachel Joyce

“There was something pathetic in his concentration, as if his complacency, more acute than of old, was not enough to him anymore.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Again, the troubling gap between word and meaning. My feeble language skills could not bear the weight of such a laden experience.”

— Alison Bechdel

“He spoke in incomplete sentences, as though he had so much he wanted to say that he needed to leave out some of the…

— Diane Chamberlain

“From his endless work had come a great industry, great personal gain, but happiness? It was a word he would have puzzled over, unable…

— Ann Patchett

“All night he either traversed his apartment with an agitation equal to that, which anxiety had so lately inflicted, or composed and destroyed letters…

— Ann Radcliffe

“He considered his disposition as of the sort which must suffer heavily, uniting very strong feelings with quiet,serious, and retiring manners, and a decided…

— Jane Austen