Sadness Quote by Mike Mullin Download Open image ““Only survivors are allowed the luxury of sadness.”” — Mike Mullin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Sadness
“Survivors learn early on that tears are a luxury for the protected.” — Elizabeth Isaacs Copy Share Image
“You must understand the pain and grief of losing someone is nothing more than a function of survival.” — Steven Cooper Copy Share Image
“ Only strong people can find happiness from the sadness surrounding them.” — Sahaj Oberoi Copy Share Image
“Many survivors find that they didn’t really know how to express sadness or anger throughout most of their lives. They were instead expected to… — Jackson MacKenzie Copy Share Image
“Oh there is always sadness. Always grief. I have heard folks say this life could be all hardship and sorrow, if we let it… — Susan Fletcher Copy Share Image
“I took comfort in doing without because I knew it was all for the greater good. We all made great sacrifices, none more so… — Megan McCafferty Copy Share Image
“Sadness is the heart withdrawing to seek shelter from the pain.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“Encounters with death and danger are only adventures to the survivors.” — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
“Only the happy ones return to contentment. Those who were sad return to despair.” — Kōbō Abe Copy Share Image
“No one likes to see people in moods of despair they themselves have survived.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Darla had been doing something by the fire. Now she returned and began stripping the blanket off me. I grabbed it before she could… — Mike Mullin Copy Share Image
“When I was eleven or twelve, we had this real old guy as a Sunday school teacher. Mom said he'd been in some war: Iraq, Vietnam … I forget. Anyway, almost every class he'd say, "There are no atheists in foxholes, kids." At the time, it was just weird. What did we know about either atheists or foxholes? Nothing. But… — Mike Mullin Copy Share
“The bookcase was filled with computer games, history books, and sci-fi novels in about equal proportions. Odd reading choices, maybe, but I just thought… — Mike Mullin Copy Share Image
“A night spent spooning with your girlfriend isn't nearly so exciting when your uncle is curled up against your other side.” — Mike Mullin Copy Share Image
“I used to think that teachers who gave homework on weekends should be forced to grade papers for an eternity in hell.” — Mike Mullin Copy Share Image
“That whiff of smoke was enough to transform my sithere-trembling terror into get-the-hell-out-of-here terror.” — Mike Mullin Copy Share Image
“Condoms instantly shot to the number-one position on my mental list of must-find survival supplies, far ahead of food, water, and a way across… — Mike Mullin Copy Share Image
“I was glad nobody had noticed.I might have been offended if my uncle had punched me in the shoulder and said something inane like,… — Mike Mullin Copy Share Image
“The few trees still upright were stripped of their branches, lonely flagpoles without a nation to claim them.” — Mike Mullin Copy Share Image
“I hate to disappoint, but I just lay there, curled in a ball, shaking in pure terror.” — Mike Mullin Copy Share Image
“Then, we waited. Waited for the noise to end. Waited for the house to fall on our heads. Waited for something, anything to change.” — Mike Mullin Copy Share Image
“I had nowhere to go and did not wish to be seen by anyone for fear they would recognize my sadness and so for… — Patrick deWitt Copy Share Image
Every man has his secret sadness and sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“She searched her mind for a single day when it had felt good to be alive. There must have been one, surely?” — Rachel Abbott Copy Share Image
Got those moods a swinging, tears a slinging, nothing fits me, when it hits me, ranting, raving, misbehaving, PMS blues. — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
But I saw the pain and sadness in everything, and swirled it round my mouth like a fine wine. — Emma Forrest Copy Share Image
“Action is a powerful thing. When you smile through your sadness, it can completely change your outlook. Try it! Smile :) Now hold onto… — Leticia Rae Copy Share Image
Im tired, tired of putting more effort than you do. Im tired of always having to start the conversation and if I dont, you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Once upon a time, there was a naïve and innocent girl who thought she could tame the beast and live happily ever after. But the beast did not want to be tamed, for he was a beast and beasts care not for such things, and the girl died along with her dreams. From childhood's grave sprang a young woman, jaded… — Nenia Campbell Copy Share
I'd think the house was the source of great sadness or pressure. I knew it wasn't. I knew it was just where I lived.… — Adam Granduciel Copy Share Image