Baggage Quote by Maggie Stiefvater

This sadness wasn't a huge part of me--I wasn't remotely depressed--but still, it was like a stone I carried in my pocket. I always…

— Dani Shapiro

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

Some days you'll feel sad without knowing why. Like you lost something very precious but forgot what it was, or like you miss someone…

— Anonymous

Longing hurts. but sometimes it's good to miss because only the longing shows the true importance that a person has in your life.

— Ash Sweeney

In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality. It is as final as the mountains: a fact. There it is. When you realize…

— William S. Burroughs

Sadness is like baggage. You can carry it around forever or you can put it down and move on.

— Anonymous

Longing for something that you once had is a mistake because the pictures in your mind are never the same as whatever it is…

— Jane Urquhart

I suspected, however, that I wasn't homesick for anything I would find at home when I returned. The longing was for what I wouldn't…

— Alice Steinbach

It's sadness coming on like the old days, the vast seamless hopeless weight of sadness looking for a place to rest.

— Anonymous

It was one of those times you feel a sense of loss, even though you didn't have something in the first place. I guess…

— Deb Caletti

There's always going to be sadness, and that's O.K., but I didn't want it to take over.

— Mary Katharine Ham

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

— Manuel Rivas