Quotes About Sadness
In the morning, I'm like the Antonioni movies. I'm little sad. I haven't the courage to start the day. In the evenings, I'm happier, more alive - like the character I play in 'An Almost Perfect Affair.'
~ Monica Vitti
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I feel like for me my happiest moments are tinged with the awareness that there's sadness on the flipside of the coin.
~ Alison Sudol
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I didn't have a happy childhood.
~ Giorgio Armani
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Appalling things can happen to children. And even a happy childhood is filled with sadnesses.
~ Mark Haddon
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I definitely didn't have a happy childhood.
~ Jimmy Somerville
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Falling is a hard thing to do whether you are a Christian or not, but when you are in Christ, it comes with a deep sadness for letting your Savior down.
~ Monica Johnson
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A sad person who is so involved with his sadness that he mistakes it for reality will have a hard time seeing himself as anything but sad. For him, the sadness is not a feeling that he experiences - it is him.
~ Mary Gaitskill
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I've always had a hard time just being angry or just being really sad - the bigger emotions.
~ Briga Heelan
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It makes me sad; I had to stop seeing my fans. It is like mental self harm to go and read my DMs.
~ Ashnikko
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I hated London; I was so lonely.
~ Nicola Roberts
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I write about heartbreak because I like writing about sad things, but I'm writing happy songs, too!
~ Jackie Evancho
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I have sadness in me. I have anger in me. I have heartbreak in me.
~ Ellen DeGeneres
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The world is a heartbreaking place, without any question.
~ Annie Lennox
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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. Cometh white-robed Sorrow, stooping and wan, and flingeth wide the doors she may not enter. Almost we linger with Sorrow for very love.
~ George MacDonald
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She could now be sad without losing a jot of hope. Nay, rather, the least approach of sadness would begin at once to wake her hope. She regretted nothing that had come, nothing that had gone. She believed more and more that not anything worth having is ever lost; that even the most evanescent shades of feeling are safe for those who grow after their true nature, toward that for which they were made—in other and higher words, after the will of God.
~ George MacDonald
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Beauty and sadness always go together. Nature thought Beauty too golden to go forth Upon the earth without a meet alloy.
~ George MacDonald
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Alas, how easily things go wrong! A sigh too much, or a kiss too long, And there follows a mist and a weeping rain, And life is never the same again.
~ George MacDonald
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The birds in the trees were singing A song as old as the world, Of love and green leaves and sunshine, And winter folded and furled. They sang that never was sadness But it melted and passed away; They sang that never was darkness But in came the conquering day.
~ George MacDonald
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Oh, you break my heart. Why does everything have to be so sad to you? Why do you have so many negative opinions about things you don't know about, like foreign countries and diseases and everything? Why can't you be more like Chief Wayne? He has zero opinions. He's just upbeat.
~ George Saunders
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I guess I was sad that love was not real? Or not all that real, anyway? I guess I was sad that love could feel so real and the next minute be gone, and all because of something Abnesti was doing.
~ George Saunders
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Oh, the pathos of it!—haggard, drawn into fixed lines of unutterable sadness, with a look of loneliness, as of a soul whose depth of sorrow and bitterness no human sympathy could ever reach. The impression I carried away was that I had seen, not so much the President of the United States, as the saddest man in the world.
~ George Saunders
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I find I've been made sad by Minuteman dread. They take a fact and make the worst of it. This beautiful world, all this magnificence, seems to inspire in them only a fear that the beautiful world will be taken away.
~ George Saunders
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and I though, Well, sir, if we are going to make a sadness party of it, I have some sadness about which I think someone as powerful as you might like to know. (..) , and all the things that they had endured, thinking, Sir, if you are as powerful as I feel that you are, and as inclined toward us as you seem to be, endeavor to do something for us, so that we might do something for ourselves.
~ George Saunders
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Never in my nearly eighty years of life on earth had I experienced a greater or more bitter contrast between happiness (the happiness I felt even glimpsing that exalted tent, from such a great distance) and sadness (I was not within the tent, and even a few seconds without seemed a dreadful eternity).
~ George Saunders
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