Guts Quote by Geraldine Brooks

Only those sadnesses are dangerous and bad which one carries about among people in order to drown them out.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

It seems to me that very sad things always contain an element of the comical

— Haruki Murakami

“Most days I live awed by the world we have still, rather than mourning the worlds we have lost. The bandit mask of a…

— Paul Bogard

Sadness is the matrix from which wit and irony spring; sadness is uncomfortable and creative, which is why consumer society cannot tolerate it.

— Germaine Greer

This sadness is unbearable

— SangFroid Stalker

“Like remorse , the words hope and dread were wholly inadequate to describe the intensity of the feelings in the dream. Ordinary hope and…

— Laini Taylor

“But the most terrible thing was that the shame didn't simply sear my heart, it also mingled into a single whole with the pleasure…

— Victor Pelevin

“Melancholy persons are foreigners in their mother tongue. The dead language they speak foreshadows their suicide.”

— David Kyuman Kim

If only. Those must be the two saddest words in the world.

— Mercedes Lackey

Of all the grief's that harass the distressed; sure the most bitter is a scornful jest.

— Samuel Johnson

I've never thought of my characters as being sad. On the contrary, they are full of life. They didn't choose tragedy. Tragedy chose them.

— Juliette Binoche

“Letting go of fear, attachment, grief and anger is the sannyasin's renunciation. He savours only the taste of his oneness with the ultimate reality.”

— Nirvana Upnishad