Quotes About Sadness

I've always expected parties to be exciting and brilliant, like some rare drink." She laughed; there was a note of sadness in it. "But I don't drink, either. That's just another symbol that doesn't mean what it was intended to mean." He was silent. She added, "Perhaps there's something that we have missed.

no sentiste nunca la impresión de que de niño te habían prometido algo, y luego te miras y piensas: Entonces no sabía que me sucedería todo eso, y te das cuenta de que todo es extraño, y ridículo, y un poco triste a la vez?»

She sat looking at him as she always did; her glance had tenderness without scorn and sadness without pity.

Tehran looked the way most of its remaining citizens must have felt: sad, forlorn, and defenseless, yet not without a certain dignity. The adhesive tape pasted on the window-panes to prevent the implosion of shattered glass told the story of its suffering, a suffering made more poignant because of its newly recovered beauty, the fresh green of trees, washed by spring showers, the blossoms and the rising snowcapped mountains now so near, as if pasted across the sky.

Almost every day, my students would recount such stories. We laughed over them, and later felt angry and sad, although we repeated them endlessly at parties and over cups of coffee, in breadlines, in taxis. It was as if the sheer act of recounting these stories gave us some control over them; the deprecating tone we used, our gestures, even our hysterical laughter seemed to reduce their hold over our lives.

Certain memories, like the imaginary balloons Yassi made with her delicate hands when she was happy, rise from somewhere in the depths of what we call memory. Like balloons, these memories are light and bright and irretrievable, despite the 'air sadness' (Bellow's term) surrounding them.

On top of my sorrow, I felt a great shame.

We both lay back down, and she looked at me in the eyes, and we were sad together for a while. I'll never forget how that felt. Like not being hungry.

Isn't it awfully sad to thing that's all history amounts to, just following the next stupid fashion?

There is no point in treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, There now, hang on, you'll get over it. Sadness is more or less like a head cold—with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.

Two dead wasps lay on the sill with their heads close together like a tiny murder-suicide.

There is no point in treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad...Sadness is more or less like a head cold -- with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.

Sadness is more or less like a head cold—with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.

Poor Dan is in a droop.

To the best of my abilities, I made it sad and true to the laughable mess of addicted youth. Also bitter. In one of my strips, Crash is filling his pill-mill scrip and the pharmacy lady leans over to warn him, "This one's strong, hon. The Purdue rep takes it so he can sleep nights.

how ridiculous it was. There is no point in treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, There now, hang on, you'll get over it. Sadness is more or less like a head cold—with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.

It was always a sad pleasure, like making love to a beautiful woman, but not to the woman you love.

I smiled into her green eyes. The smile felt strangely sad to me. Maybe she didn't notice.

But then, as seemed always to be the case when she found herself hit by a wave of happiness, or joy, or delight, there was an immediate undertow of sadness.

Grief is like a drunken houseguest, always coming back for one more goodbye hug.

Hay momentos en los que desearía poder hacer retroceder el reloj y quitar toda la tristeza, pero tengo la sensación de que si lo hiciera, la alegría se habría ido también. NICHOLAS SPARKS, ESCRITOR

But one need not oppose abortion on moral or religious grounds to feel shaken by the notion of a private sadness being converted into a public good.

Our facial expressions are hardwired5 into our emotions: we can't have one without the other. Botox lessens depression because it prevents us from making sad faces. But it also dampens our connection to those around us because we feel empathy by mimicking each other's facial expressions.

Great joys make us love the world. Great sadnesses make us understand the world.