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Quotes About Sadness

he would awake from those dreams with an overpowering sadness and the familiar knowledge that this deprivation could not be alleviated without the risk of further betrayal and the eventual certainty of absolute erasure. Both pains were too extreme to face again. Better, it seemed, just to let his soul die slowly, bit by lonely bit.
~ Ken Grimwood
a sadness in living beyond extinction,
~ Ken MacLeod
post mortem triste
~ Ken MacLeod
When you are not at hand to kiss away my fears I cannot choose but be wretched.
~ Byron Caldwell Smith
What makes the birds so happy when I'm sad? The irritating creatures!
~ byron henry james
The sadness inherent in any memory comes from the fact that its object is forgetting.
~ César Aira
A memory is a luminous miniature, like the hologram of the princess, in that movie, that the faithful robot carried in his circuits from galaxy to galaxy. The sadness inherent in any memory comes from the fact that its object is forgetting. All movement, the great horizon, the journey, is a spasm of forgetting, which bends in the bubble of memory. Memory is always portable, it is always in the hands of a wandering automaton.
~ César Aira
La tristeza inherente al recuerdo proviene de que su objeto es el olvido.
~ César Aira
I created you while I was happy, while I was sad,with so many incidents, so many details.And, for me, the whole of you has been transformed into feeling.
~ C. P. Cavafy
Ma vivi altrove. Il tuo tenero sangue si è fatto altrove. Le parole che dici non hanno riscontro con la scabra tristezza di questo cielo. [...]
~ C. Pavese
No one ever told me grief felt so much like fear.
~ C. S. Lewis
There is a sadness in animals' eyes, and we never know whether that sadness is bound up with the soul of the animal or is a poignant message which speaks to us out of that still unconscious existence.
~ C.G. Jung
Conscience,' Hobbey said with infinite sadness. 'I had one once. Ambition killed it.
~ C.J. Sansom
a weeping, unhealable wound
~ C.K. Williams
Marla came to school the next day, but it was just to say good-bye. "Why, Marla," Mrs. Tealso said, "I'm sorry to lose you." "Me, too, Mrs. Tealso," Marla said. "I liked it here, and I--" Before she could finish she burst into tears and cried so hard that Mrs. Tealso had to send her to the girls' room to get control of herself.
~ C.S. Adler
A girl with tears and secrets in her eyes.
~ Cameron Dokey
Rosario her zamanki gülümseyiÅŸiyle, temelde iyi kalpli olan tüm mutsuz kiÅŸilerin o üzgün ve k?rg?n gülümseyiÅŸiyle gülümsüyordu.
~ Camilo Jose Cela
I've decided that it's possible to LOVE someone for entirely SELFLESS reasons, for all of their flaw and weaknesses, and still NOT succeed in having them love you back. It's sad, perhaps, but not TRAGIC, unless you dwell forever in the PURSUIT of their elusive affections.
~ Cammie McGovern
I've decided that it's possible to love someone for entirely selfless reasons, for all of their flaws and weaknesses, and still not succeed in having them love you back. It's sad, perhaps, but not tragic, unless you dwell forever in the pursuit of their elusive affections.
~ Cammie McGovern
You are filled with anguish For the suffering of others. And no one's grief Has ever passed you by. You are relentless Only to yourself, Forever cold and pitiless. But if only you could look upon Your own sadness from a distance, Just once with a loving soul— Oh, how you would pity yourself. How sadly you would weep. —Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna Romanova, poem dedicated to her mother, April 23, 1917
~ Candace Fleming
There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
~ Carl Gustav Jung
Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.
~ Carl Gustav Jung
There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word "happy" would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
~ Carl Jung
Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better to take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.
~ Carl Jung