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Quotes About Sadness

A lonely, quiet person has observations and experiences that are at once both more indistinct and more penetrating than those of one more gregarious; his thoughts are weightier, stranger, and never without a tinge of sadness. Images and perceptions that others might shrug off with a glance, a laugh, or a brief conversation occupy him unduly, become profound in his silence, become significant, become experience, adventure, emotion.
~ Thomas Mann
The silence of the spheres is the music of a wedding feast. The more we persist in misunderstanding the phenomena of life, the more we analyze them out into strange finalities and complex purposes of our own, the more we involve ourselves in sadness. But it does not matter much because no despair of ours can alter the reality of things, or stain the joy of the cosmic dance which is always there.
~ Thomas Merton
For a moment she'd wondered if the seal around her sockets were tight enough to allow the tears simply to go on and fill up the entire lens space and never dry. She could carry the sadness of the moment with her that way forever, see the world refracted through those tears, those specific tears, as if indices as yet unfound varied in important ways from cry to cry.
~ Thomas Pynchon
Oedipa, perverse, had stood in front of the painting and cried. No one had noticed; she wore dark green bubble shades. For a moment she'd wondered if the seal around her sockets were tight enough to allow the tears simply to go on and fill up the entire lens space and never dry. She could carry the sadness of the moment with her that way forever, see the world refracted through those tears, those specific tears, as if indices as yet unfound varied in important ways from cry to cry.
~ Thomas Pynchon
Two of them there drinking red liquor like it was sadness medicine.
~ Thomas Pynchon
Depuis, elle pleurait des baignoires.
~ Katherine Pancol
C'est toujours dans les yeux qu'on voit si les gents sont tristes ou heureux. le regard, on peux pas le maquiller. Luca avait les yeux tristes. Même quand il souriait.
~ Katherine Pancol
I previously had in my head but not in my heart—and I will stay with this sadness as best I can.
~ Kathleen Adams
the happy weight of secret love is just as heavy as sadness.
~ Kathleen Hale
Nuns who looked sad were, she pointed out, the greatest stumbling block to vocations because young people, like God, loved a cheerful giver.
~ Kathryn Spink
It can be really powerful to write something when you're sad.
~ Kathryn Stockett
my soul bleeding tears of anguish
~ Katie MacAlister
There isn't anyone who doesn't feel regret or sadness. (Lavi Bookman)
~ Katsura Hoshino
Nothing is sadder than friends falling out.
~ Katsura Hoshino
He feels sadness more acturely than others do. He's reached his limit, but…he puts on a smile and goes out alone. He's that kind of idiot. So I'm sure he's alone now!
~ Katsura Hoshino
If you're sad…then he will come.
~ Katsura Hoshino
Love has, at its best, made the inherent sadness of life bearable, and its beauty manifest.
~ Kay Redfield Jamison
Indeed — why should I not admit it? — in that moment, my heart was breaking.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
A person's sadness didn't always take a form that others could see.
~ Keigo Higashino
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~ Keiichi Sigsawa
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~ Keiichi Sigsawa
Human beings are so depressing.
~ Kelly Easton
I opened my mouth to exclaim about the puppies. They were beauty and joy and innocence made of flesh and fur, in an ugly time when fear and sadness and mistrust hung over the world like a sickly green tornado sky.
~ Kelly Milner Halls
Don't look so sad," she said. Her eyes were full of tears. "I can't help it," he said. "I am sad." "I'm sorry I've made you so unhappy." "Don't be sorry for that. Be sorry that you made me so happy. That's what hurts, woman. That you made me so happy.
~ Ken Follett