Quotes about sadness
sadness giving might
It won't make you feel any better, he told me, it might even make things worse for a while. But you mustn't let the sadness die inside you. You have to give it some life. Kevin Brooks
sadness voice age
I used to come here on my own sometimes... Id' stay down here for ages." Her voice was barely audible. "It's a good place for sadness... Kevin Brooks
sadness sorrow gold
I gathered up my sorrows and I sold them all for gold. And I gathered up the gold, and I threw it all away. James Taylor
sadness night light
Don't be sad cause your sun is down, the night doesn't need your sorrow. Don't be sad cause the light is gone, just keep your mind on tomorrow. James Taylor
sadness light facts
There is a collective as well as an individual humor inclining peoples to sadness or cheerfulness, making them see things in bright or somber lights. In fact, only society can pass a collective opinion on the value of human life; for this the individual is incompetent. Emile Durkheim
sadness mean facts
It is a quite remarkable fact that the great religions of the most civilized peoples are more deeply fraught with sadness than the simpler beliefs of earlier societies. This certainly does not mean that the current of pessimism is eventually to submerge the other, but it proves that it does not lose ground and that it does not seem destined to disappear. Emile Durkheim
sadness joy sorrow
We need to remind each other that the cup of sorrow is also the cup of joy, that precisely what causes us sadness can become the fertile ground for gladness. Henri Nouwen
sadness kissing joy
Our life is...a time in which sadness and joy kiss each other at every moment. Henri Nouwen
sadness mind fairy-tale
I do not know the meaning of my sadness; there is an old fairy tale that I cannot get out of my mind. Heinrich Heine
sadness past glowing
Every green thing loves to die in bright colors. The vegetable cohorts march glowing out of the year in flaming dresses, as if to leave this earth were a triumph and not a sadness. It is never nature that is sad, but only we, that dare not look back on the past, and that have not its prophecy of the future in our bosoms. Henry Ward Beecher
sadness release
Sadness of love without release. Jonathan Safran Foer
sadness growing life-learning
I spent my life learning to feel less. Every day I felt less. Is that growing old? Or is it something worse? You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness. Jonathan Safran Foer
sadness trying wanted
I wanted to touch him, to tell him that even if everyone left everyone, I would never leave him, he talked and talked, his words fell through him, trying to find the floor to his sadness. Jonathan Safran Foer
sadness frustration unique
Brod discovered 613 sadnesses, each perfectly unique, each a singular emotion, no more similar to any other sadness than to anger, ecstasy, guilt, or frustration. Mirror Sadness. Sadness of Domesticated Birds. Sadness of Being Sad in front of One's Parent. Humor Sadness. Sadness of Love Without Release. Jonathan Safran Foer
sadness hands laughing
She let out a laugh, and then she put her hand over her mouth, like she was angry at herself for forgetting her sadness. Jonathan Safran Foer
sadness way overcoming
The only way to overcome sadness is to consume it. Jonathan Safran Foer
sadness joy together
And I leave you now, not with sadness but with satisfaction and joy that we came together and walked, arm in arm, through this brief moment of eternity. Who could ask for more? Og Mandino
sadness journey forever
Journey quietly on your pathway to forever with charity & a smile. When you depart it will be said by all that your legacy was a better world than the one you found. Og Mandino
sadness thinking perspective
All of us have been dying, hour by hour, since the moment we were born. Realizing this, let all things be placed in their proper perspective. . . . Remember, it is always later than you think. Og Mandino
sadness heart grieving
I will welcome happiness for it enlarges my heart; Yet I will endure sadness for it opens my soul. I will acknowledge rewards for they are my due; Yet I will welcome obstacles for they are my challenge. Og Mandino
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
sadness black-and-white two
The two dozen commonplace childhood photographs - snowsuit, pony, tennis racket, looming fender of a Dodge - were an inexhaustible source of wonder for him, at her having existed before he met her, and of sadness for his possessing nothing of the ten million minutes of that black-and-white scallop-edged existence save these few proofs. Michael Chabon
sadness want sometimes
Sometimes, we don't get what we want. . . But this is a benevolent universe. And once in a while, we do. Melody Beattie
sadness mean home
Going home means getting comfortable being who you are and who your soul really wants to be. There is no strain with that. The strain and tension come when we're not being who our soul wants to be and we're someplace where our soul doesn't feel at home. Melody Beattie
sadness walt merchants
Walt Disney was not a merchant of sadness. James MacArthur
sadness cutting roots
When sadness comes, just sit by the side and look at it and say, "I am the watcher, I am not sadness," and see the difference. Immediately you have cut the very root of sadness. It is no more nourished. It will die of starvation. We feed these emotions by being identified with them. Rajneesh
sadness generosity misery
Once you have known the generosity of existence you will never feel miserable. Rajneesh
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