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Quotes About Sadness

Yo iba llorando. Allí había sido feliz.
~ Isabel Allende
La tristeza se manifestaba en las noches en vela, la ropa oscura, el deseo de vivir en una cueva de anacoreta y la ausencia de inspiración.
~ Isabel Allende
It was a long week of penitence and fasting, during which there were no card games and no music that might lead to lust or abandon; and within the limits of possibility, the strictest sadness and chastity were observed, even though it was precisely at this time that the forked tail of the devil pricked most insistently at Catholic flesh.
~ Isabel Allende
La tristeza y el aburrimiento le resultaban más soportables que el esfuerzo de una existencia normal.
~ Isabel Allende
Como dissera o terapeuta, havia tristeza na vida do Willie e na minha, embora não fosse um sentimento paralisante, mas antes a consciência das perdas e das dificuldades que dão cor à vida.
~ Isabel Allende
Sadness, my enemy, is gaining ground, Ingrid. At this rate in the years I have left I'm going to turn into a hermit.' 'That would be death in life, Victor. Do as I do. Don't wait to defend yourself against that enemy, go out and confront it. It took me years in therapy to learn that.' 'What reasons do you have to be sad, child?' 'That's what my husband asks me. I don't know, Victor, I suppose you don't need reasons; it's part of your nature.
~ Isabel Allende
Llorando de tristeza por todo lo perdido y riendo de alivio por todo lo ganado.
~ Isabel Allende
Las aventuras sin amor me ponen triste
~ Isabel Allende
What reasons do you have to be sad, child?" "That's what my husband asks me. I don't know, Victor, I suppose you don't need reasons; it's part of your nature.
~ Isabel Allende
La tristeza es la tierra fértil donde crece la inspiración
~ Isabel Allende
We had not only lost our childhood in the war but our lives had been tainted by the same experiences that still caused us great pain and sadness.
~ Ishmael Beah
If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.
~ Moliere
Were it possible for us to see further than our knowledge reaches, perhaps we would endure our sadnesses with greater confidence than our joys. For they are moments when something new has entered into us, something unknown.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Oh, the saddest of sights in a world of sin Is a little lost pup with his tail tucked in!
~ Arthur Guiterman
Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep and you weep alone.
~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox
I write with humour about sadness, to introduce an element of sweet to the sour, a bit like Turkish food.
~ Elif Safak
I was sad and in a dark place, and I turned to a hobby to sort of take me out of that.
~ Cole Sprouse
It's kind of sad, the way we've turned the entertainment of reading into a kind of psychic broccoli - something to feel guilty about if you don't force it on your face-making children while dutifully consuming a few token florets yourself.
~ Lynn Coady
9/11 did not really impact me, but I remember sitting in my 6th grade math class. I remember the teachers just being in a panic and turning on our TVs and I remember the impact in the look of just disbelief and sadness and shock that was on my teacher's face.
~ Kyle Carpenter
When you do a good comedy show, you have to understand that if you don't have drama or sad moments, then the comedy turns into a clowning kind of situation.
~ Jaime Camil
You can't understand Twenties England until you appreciate it was under a cloud of mourning. Nearly everyone was grieving.
~ Ian Hislop
I don't know a writer who doesn't feel some sense of glamour and magic and a complex, wistful sadness emanating from the expats of the twenties in France. Some of the sadness, of course, is that we weren't there.
~ Guy Gavriel Kay
So war is an extremely sad business, because the majority of people don't want to be in it.
~ Gerald Scarfe
I'm cool with being the sad guy, but I don't want to be the guy who nobody wants around because he's so miserable.
~ How to Dress Well