Quotes about sadness
sadness faces brightness
Some women's faces are, in their brightness, a prophecy; and some, in their sadness, a history. Charles Dickens
sadness night years
God alone can do what seems impossible. This is the promise of his grace: 'I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten' (Joel 2:25). God can give back all those years of sorrow, and you will be the better for them. God will grind sunlight out of your black nights. In the oven of affliction, grace will prepare the bread of delight. Someday you will thank God for all your sadness. Charles Spurgeon
sadness hands all-alone
You reach out your hand, but you're all alone, in those time passages. Al Stewart
sadness mind want
What is the source of sadness, but feebleness of the mind? What giveth it power but the want of reason? Rouse thyself to the combat, and she quitteth the field before thou strikest. Akhenaton
sadness cleansing reassuring
There is nothing so cleansing or reassuring as a vicarious sadness. David Rakoff
sadness tantrums
All sadness is a tantrum. Byron Katie
sadness matter world
When your world has shattered, ain't nothing else matters. It ain't over, it's only love and that's all. Bryan Adams
sadness skills brain
Glen Hirshberg's stories are haunting, absolutely, but not only because of the content -- the stories themselves haunt, they stick around, they linger, inhabiting a little corner of the reader's brain and resurfacing to evoke mystery or sadness or longing. It's a pleasure to dive into Hirshberg's storytelling skills in American Morons. Aimee Bender
sadness forever lasts
This is the time to remember cause it will not last forever. These are the days to hold onto cause we won't although we'll want to. Billy Joel
sadness way strange
It's strange how sometimes you can be so happy it goes all the way round to sadness. David Walliams
sadness thinking way
Looking for happiness is a sure way to sadness, I think. You have to take each moment as it comes. Benedict Cumberbatch
sadness night ends
The weariest night, the longest day, sooner or later must perforce come to an end. Baroness Orczy
sadness gay echoes
When they are gay, the waves echo their gaiety; but when they are sad, then every breaker, as it rolls, seems to bring additional sadness, and to speak to us of hopelessness and of the pettiness of all our joys.
sadness childhood accomplished
If I have brightened up one single sad childhood, then I have at least accomplished something in my life. Astrid Lindgren
sadness
And happiness is always louder than sadness. Deborah Harkness
sadness years next
Happiness comes in moments, & then it's gone until the next time. Could be years. But sadness settles it. Dennis Lehane
sadness looks trouble
You can't out-travel sadness. I travel not to get away from my troubles but to see how they look in front of famous buildings Elizabeth McCracken
sadness thinking people
Some people habitually wear sadness, like a garment, and think it a becoming grace. God loves a cheerful worshipper. Edwin Hubbel Chapin
sadness humility thinking
My own idea, for what it is worth, is that all sadness which is not either arising from the repentance of a concrete sin and hastening towards concrete amendment or restitution, or else arising from pity and hastening to active assistance, is simply bad; and I think we all sin by needlessly disobeying the apostolic injunction to 'rejoice' as much as by anything else. Humility, after the first shock, is a cheerful virtue. C. S. Lewis
sadness mean thinking
What is "this drive"? It's the tendency to not simply accept things as they are but to want to think about them, to understand them. To not be content to simply feel sad but to ask what sadness means. To not just get a bus pass but to think about the economic reasons getting a bus pass makes sense. I call this tendency the intellectual. Aaron Swartz
sadness being-funny
What a sad business is being funny! Charlie Chaplin
sadness sunshine darkness
Ain't no sunshine when she's gone, only darkness every day. Bill Withers
sadness cutting apples
I could no more have stopped myself from feeling that sadness than you could stop yourself from smelling an apple that has been cut open on the table before you. Arthur Golden
sadness heavy-things heavy
Sadness was a very heavy thing.
sadness ideas connections
Are there not some places where we seem to breathe sadness? — why, we cannot tell. It is a chain of recollections — an idea which carries you back to other times, to other places — which, very likely, have no connection with the present time and place. Alexandre Dumas
sadness kids vampire
The vampire movies I embraced as a kid used vampirism as a metaphor that expressed deep sadness and a lot of human qualities. Alexandra Cassavetes
sadness waterfalls watches
Watch waterfalls of pity roar, you feel to moan but unlike before, you discover that you'd just be one more person crying. Bob Dylan
sadness blue tangled
Lord knows I've paid my dues getting through, tangled up in blue.
sadness eden bird
As he weeps to wicked birds of prey, who pick up on his bread crumb sins, and there are no sins inside the Gates of Eden.
sadness heart screws
A cork screw to my heart, ever since we've been apart.
sadness thinking sad-life
Nothing is miserable unless you think it so. Boethius
sadness skins miles
I walked a thousand miles just to slip this skin. Bruce Springsteen
sadness sky sorrow
Sky of blackness and sorrow, sky of love, sky of tears. Sky of glory and sadness, sky of mercy, sky of fear.