Famous Quotes & Sayings

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Was it the infinite sadness of her eyes that drew him or the mirror of himself that he found in the gorgeous clarity of her mind?

Evelyn Waugh

...she had regained what I thought she had lost forever, the magical sadness which had drawn me to her, the thwarted look that had seemed to say, "Surely I was made for some other purpose than this?

Evelyn Waugh

That was the change in her from ten years ago; that, indeed, was her reward, this haunting, magical sadness which spoke straight to the heart and struck silence; it was the completion of her beauty.

Imelda Staunton

A lot of me is very up, and you have to have light and shade. They are both important and you have to be able to balance them. You have to admit that sadness is part of you and that it enriches you. I use it in my work.

Jack Kerouac

Somebody had tipped the American continent like a pinball machine and all the goofballs had come rolling to LA in the southwest corner. I cried for all of us. There was no end to the American sadness and the American madness. Someday we'll all start laughing and roll on the ground when we realize how funny it's been.

Jack Kerouac

Life was dense, dark, ancient. They watched Dean, serious and insane at his raving wheel, with eyes of hawks. All had their hands outstretched. They had come down from the back mountains and higher places to hold forth their hands for something they thought civilization could offer, and they never dreamed the sadness and the poor broken delusion of it. They didn’t know that a bomb had come that could crack all our bridges and roads and reduce them to jumbles, and we would be as poor as they someday, and stretching out our hands in the same, same way

Gwyneth Paltrow

It is with hearts full of sadness that we have decided to separate.

Gregor Mendel

To live without experiencing some shame and blushes of admiration would surely be a wretched life.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

Mary Chapin Carpenter

I've crossed lines of word and wire and both have cut me deep. I've been frozen out and I've been on fire, and the tears are mine to weep.

Pierre Corneille

We never taste a perfect joy; our happiest successes are mixed with sadness.

Pope Francis

If sadness comes to you one day with an invitation, tell it you are committed to joy and will be faithful to it your whole life long.

Pope Francis

Our infinite sadness can only be cured by an infinite love.

Paulo Coelho

Sadness does not last forever when we walk in the direction of that which we always desired.

Paulo Coelho

That is why I write - to try to turn sadness into longing, solitude into remembrance.

Paulo Coelho

Words are tears that have been written down. Tears are words that need to be shed. Without them, joy loses all its brilliance and sadness has no end.

Peter Singer

I think ethics is always there; it's not always a very thoughtful or reflective ethics.

Peter Matthiessen

There's an elegiac quality in watching [American wilderness] go, because it's our own myth, the American frontier, that's deteriorating before our eyes. I feel a deep sorrow that my kids will never get to see what I've seen, and their kids will see nothing; there's a deep sadness whenever I look at nature now.

Pliny the Elder

Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.

Pope Francis

The cross of Christ, embraced with love, never brings sadness with it, but joy, the joy of being saved and of doing a little of what he did on the day of his death.

Mike Figgis

There's a sadness to the human condition that I think music is good for. It gives a counterpoint to the visual beauty, and adds depth to pictures that they wouldn't have if the music wasn't there.

Mother Teresa

Serve God joyfully. Let there be no sadness in your life: the only true sorrow is sin.

George MacDonald

Beauty and sadness always go together. Nature thought beauty too rich to go forth Upon the earth without a meet alloy.

George MacDonald

I rose as from the death that wipes out the sadness of life, and then dies itself in the new morrow.

George MacDonald

As in all sweetest music, a tinge of sadness was in every note. Nor do we know how much of the pleasures even of life we owe to the intermingled sorrows. Joy cannot unfold the deepest truths, although deepest truth must be deepest joy.

Elvis Presley

How can you lose something you never had, I tell myself when I'm feeling sad.

Elvis Presley

If you cry when you're in love, it sure ain't no disgrace.

Elizabeth Gilbert

So sadness is a place?' Giovanni asked. 'Sometimes people live there for years,'I said.

Elisabeth Shue

Sadness, joy, wonder - all feelings come from a place of grounded strength that comes from trust in yourself. We spend so much time trying to control our feelings out of fear that something may happen, that somebody may not love us, or walk away or die. It's only when you stop living in that fear of what other people might do to you or how they will react, only then are you free to be alive.

Linda Ronstadt

When the night wind starts to sing a lonesome lullaby, it helps to think we're sleeping underneath the same big sky.

Linda Lael Miller

Nostalgia is a way of remembering people and places and things, and wishing things hadn't changed. It has a sweetness to it. Sadness is just--well--being sad.

Larry Norman

Look deep inside, and when you locate the sadness, give it a vacation, and focus on the simple things.

Larry McMurtry

The lives of happy people are dense with their own doings -- crowded, active, thick. But the sorrowing are nomads, on a plain with few landmarks and no boundaries; sorrow's horizons are vague and its demands are few.