People Quote by Elizabeth Gilbert

“We were talking the other evening about the phrases one uses when trying to comfort someone who is in distress. I told him that…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“Don't dwell on sadness. Joy will take you where you want to go.”

— Bryant McGill

“There were a few years there, lost in borderless despair, when I used to experience all the world’s sadness as my own.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“And so I sat in the centre of this old city that I loved, which itself sat at the bottom of a tiny island.…

— Hanif Kureishi

“sadness is just a stay of mind...and happiness is how we feel”

— Upasana Banerjee

What's the point of being sad?" he says. "We're here now.

— Emily Giffin

“Like Venice, Italy, this is a place of fleeting beauty. The knowledge that we won't be here long gives everyone an intense appetite for…

— Andrei Codrescu

“Sadness is only something that's part of you. Grief becomes you; it wraps you up and changes you and makes everything - every little…

— Jodi Lynn Anderson

“We know only that in some strange and melancholy way we have become a waste land. All the same, we are not often sad.”

— Erich Maria Remarque

“Tina nods sagely and says yes and then something in Plautdietsch, probably something like heck yeah do we ever know what sad is. Sadness…

— Miriam Toews

“It was a sad moment. There are sad moments in life, and this was one of them.”

— Elizabeth Strout

“I am aware of sadness, of a sense of loss. Here, I say, we have lived, we have been happy. This has been ours,…

— Daphne du Maurier