Quotes about sadness
sadness joy feelings
Were it possible for us to see further than our knowledge reaches, and yet a little way beyond the outworks of our divinings, perhaps we would endure our sadnesses with greater confidence than our joys. For they are the moments when something new has entered into us, something unknown; our feelings grow mute in shy perplexity, everything in us withdraws, a stillness comes, and the new, which no one knows, stands in the midst of it and is silent. Rainer Maria Rilke
sadness fate patient
The quieter we are, the more patient and open we are in our sadnesses, the more deeply and serenely the new presence can enter us, and the more we can make it our own, the more it becomes our fate. Rainer Maria Rilke
sadness order people
Only those sadnesses are dangerous and bad which one carries about among people in order to drown them out. Rainer Maria Rilke
sadness joy bears
If only it were possible for us to see farther than our knowledge reaches, and even a little beyond the outworks of our presentiment, perhaps we would bear our sadnesses with greater trust than we have in our joys. Rainer Maria Rilke
sadness order noise
The only sadnesses that are dangerous and unhealthy are the ones that we carry around in public in order to drown them out with the noise... Rainer Maria Rilke
sadness gone passing
You have had many and great sadnesses, which passed. And you say that even this passing was hard for you and put you out of sorts. But, please, consider whether these great sadnesses have not rather gone right through the center of yourself? Whether much in you has not altered, whether you have not somewhere, at some point of your being, undergone a change when you were sad? Rainer Maria Rilke
sadness emotion moments
It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living. Rainer Maria Rilke
sadness cry trouble
You know you're in trouble, when the bartender cries. Michael Peterson
sadness draws our-lives
We all have sadness in our life and things that we can draw upon Sherilyn Fenn
sadness joy illness
The joy you bring us is so much greater than the sadness we feel about your illness. John Green
sadness battle done
It was sad music. But it waved its sadness like a battle flag. It said the universe had done all it could, but you were still alive. Terry Pratchett
sadness dedication discovery
EARTH DAY uses one of humanity's great discoveries, the discovery of anniversaries by which, throughout time, human beings have kept their sorrows and their joys, their victories, their revelations and their obligations alive, for re-celebration and re-dedication another year, another decade, another century, another eon. Margaret Mead
sadness years done
I love what movies and television and all that kind of stuff has done to me through the years. I love that it can bring up all these different emotions in me - whether it's anger or happiness or sadness...whatever it may be. Kevin Sorbo
sadness might scream
No one to hear, you might as well scream. Melissa Etheridge
sadness differences vibrations
The big difference between human happiness and sadness? Thirty-seven freakin' vibrations. Michael Tilson Thomas
sadness knowing remember
That's one of the great sadnesses of any life - knowing what you know now and then remembering what you did not know then. Michael Ondaatje
sadness geography
Do you understand the sadness of geography? Michael Ondaatje
sadness mean expression
Naturally, we are inclined to be so mathematical and calculating that we look upon uncertainty as a bad thing...Certainty is the mark of the common-sense life. To be certain of God means that we are uncertain in all our ways, we do not know what a day may bring forth. This is generally said with a sigh of sadness; it should rather be an expression of breathless expectation. Oswald Chambers
sadness past may
May your happiest days of the past be your saddest days of your future. Laurence J. Peter
sadness people complicated
So as a seventh grader, no, you weren't friends with people you didn't like. But sometimes you also weren't friends with people you did like, which was complicated, and which didn't make any sense if you tried to explain it. Sometimes things just changed. That's where the sadness came in. Lauren Myracle
sadness who-i-am people
I'm overwhelmed with sadness for everything that was lost, and filled with anger toward the people who took it away. My people-or at least, my old people. I don't know who I am anymore, or where I belong. That's not totally true...I know I belong with Alex. Lauren Oliver
sadness space miracle
Of all the miracles Po had seen in the time and space of its death, Po thought this--the absorption of another, the carrying of it--was the most bewildering and remarkable of all. Whenever Bundle separated again, Po was left with an ache of sadness that reminded the ghost of the body it had left behind. Lauren Oliver
sadness self people
For a second I feel a rush of sadness: for the horizons that vanish behind us, for the people we leave behind, the tiny-doll selves that get stored away and ultimately buried. Lauren Oliver
sadness passion thinking
There is nothing else for people to do. They do not think. They feel no passion, no hatred, no sadness; they feel nothing but fear, and a desire to control. So they watch, and poke, and pry. Lauren Oliver
sadness sunshine sky
I'd like to combine melancholy and sunshine... There's a sadness in Provence which no one has expressed... I'd like to put reason in the grass and tears in the sky, like Poussin... Paul Cezanne
sadness suffering despair
Suffering is a big informer, a big catalyst for creation. You take your sadness, your despair, your sense of injustice, and you put it in your work. Madonna Ciccone
sadness heart needs
I made a vow that I would never need another person ever. Turned my heart into a cage, a victim of a kind of rage. Madonna Ciccone
sadness angel may
May the angels protect you, and sadness forget you. Madonna Ciccone
sadness people world
The sadness of the world has different ways of getting to people, but it seems to succeed almost every time. Louis-Ferdinand Celine
sadness shadow sentimental
Every arrangement in life carried with it the sadness, the sentimental shadow, of its not being something else, but only itself. Lorrie Moore
sadness nursing self
There is a certain amount of purpose, acquiescence, and satisfaction in nursing one's melancholy. Michel de Montaigne
sadness people sad-life
We are more unhappy to see people ahead of us than happy to see people behind us. Michel de Montaigne
sadness people one-day
Some people drift through their entire life. They do it one day at a time, one week at a time, one month at a time. It happens so gradually they are unaware of how their lives are slipping away until it's too late. Mary Kay Ash