Famous Quotes & Sayings

Laura Ingalls Wilder

We had no choice. Sadness was a dangerous as panthers and bears. the wilderness needs your whole attention.

Libba Bray

There’s a moment of profound sadness that can be dispelled only by summoning my anger.

Henry Rollins

Misery, depression, elation all mine, refine confinement all my design.

Henry Rollins

Now you see how you are, the wisdom mixed in with all the scars.

Henry David Thoreau

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.

Henry David Thoreau

In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.

Malcolm X

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

Margaret O'Brien

All you'd have to do is get a sad look, and he'd try to do something for you.

Eric Hoffer

It is loneliness that makes the loudest noise. This is true of men as of dogs.

Emmylou Harris

As citizens we have to be more thoughtful and more educated and more informed. I turn on the TV and I see these grown people screaming at each other, and I think, well, if we don't get our civility back, we're in trouble.

Frederick the Great

The greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the next is to shake off old prejudices.

Johnny Cash

Deep in the heart of the infinite darkness, a tiny blue marble is spinning through space. Born in the splendor of God's holy vision, and sliding away like a tear down his face.

Louis Sachar

School just speeds things up... Without school it might take 70 years before you wake up and are able to count.

Lord Chesterfield

Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison.

Luther Vandross

I feel a sense of sadness and joy. Mostly sadness though about what I've experienced and sadness about what others have experienced in reference to the stroke.

Luis Gonzalez

Face, to me, is a metaphor of sadness. And I want to share this sadness. I'm not really interested whether it's an Indian face or not - that's not as important for me. But it's still important to establish the relationships in order to bring about a consciousness of our fragility.

Very much so, I really feel sad for him.

Its been here for so long. It's sad to have to see it demolished.

This is really a sad state of affairs. We're in trouble.

This is such a sad day, very sad ... we're all devastated, You can tell that they touched so many lives.

Rajneesh

Anger will come and go and the watcher abides. Sadness comes and passes by and the witness remains

Rajneesh

Sometimes happiness comes, sometimes sadness, anger, jealousy - you need not make them your problems

Rajneesh

Sadness, seriousness are parts of a psychologically sick man - they need causes. So when you are feeling happy, don't start asking, "Why am I happy?" When you are feeling sad ask why you are sad. But strangely, it has become conventional to our minds that when we are sad we accept it as if it is our nature. And when we are joyous even we are surprised; deep inside we even start worrying: "What is happening to me?"

Rajneesh

Take a good look at your mind. Examine it closely. The first thing you will come to know is that the mind has become the master - not you and not your soul! The mind says: Do this! And you do it! If you don't the mind creates problems. It become sad, and the sadness of the mind becomes your sadness. If you do as it says you get nowhere, for the mind is blind. Where can you reach by obeying the mind! The is unconsciousness. If you listen to it you reach nowhere.

Rajneesh

Sadness is not necessarily something bad. Don't judge it as a bad or negative quality.

Tablo

I disliked the unfamiliar happiness more than the familiar sadness

Sylvia Plath

It won't happen yet, Ellen mused, mashing cooked carrots for Jill's lunch. Breakups seldom do. It will unfold slowly, one little tell-tale symptom after another like some awful, hellish flower.

Sylvia Plath

I talk to God but the sky is empty.

Sylvia Plath

Intoxicated with madness, I'm in love with my sadness

Sylvia Plath

I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.

Roy Rogers

If there were no valleys of sadness and death, we could never really appreciate the sunshine of happiness on the mountain top.

Roy Orbison

As you stopped to say hello, oh, you wished me well, you couldn't tell that I'd been crying over you.

Taylor Swift

I think the worst part about a breakup sometimes, if one could choose a worst part, would possibly be if you get out of a relationship, and you don't recognize yourself because you changed a lot about you.