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Quotes About Sadness

Grief doesn't come in the moment of loss. It comes in the quiet of the aftermath...she didn't feel grief. In a way, what she felt was emptiness. Her mind told her he was dead. Her heart was not there yet.
~ William Kent Krueger
In the beginning of the journey of this child, or any child, is the understanding that each foot will fall into a different track. Happiness on one side, sadness on the other. Pleasure and pain. Wisdom and folly. With each step, this child will learn that there is in him the possibility of great good and also great evil. It is a serious matter, guiding this child along the path of right living.
~ William Kent Krueger
Once again there shall be great music: this shall be mightier than the first. It shall be unflawed, filled with wisdom and sadness, and beautiful beyond compare
~ David Day
Therefore, if the ancient Greeks had known that a warm growing season occurs in Australia at the very moment when, as they believed, Demeter is at her saddest, they could have inferred that there was something wrong with their explanation of seasons.
~ David Deutsch
While walking back down through the woods to the station, I felt, for a few minutes, an almost overwhelming sense of loss. With the late afternoon sun still pouring down through the trees and Anna's blonde hair dancing on her shoulders in front of me, I needed all my discipline to keep from crying. Nothing tears the heart like a glimpse of happiness.
~ David Downing
The delta blues is a low-down, dirty shame blues. It's a sad, big wide sound, something to make you think about people who are dead or the women who left you.
~ David Edwards
Is she dead?" "No." "A pity.
~ David Feintuch
Man is capable of greatness, love, nobility, compassion. Yet never forget that his capacity for evil is infinite. It is a sad truth, boy, that if you sit now and think of the worst tortures that could ever be inflicted on another human being, they will already have been practiced somewhere. If there is one sound that follows the march of humanity, it is the scream.
~ David Gemmell
who like the taste of being hurt. That makes you lower than the mice and the roaches. At least they try to save their skins, they got a normal outlook. But you, you're just a clown that ain't funny. And that's a sad picture, that's the saddest picture of all. Like on the outside it's the stupid crazy smile and inside it's a gloomy place where all they play is the blues. He frowned.
~ David Goodis
The grief was always there, the foundational color of her eyes.
~ David Grossman
It's a sad and stupid thing to have to proclaim yourself a revolutionary just to be a decent man.
~ David Harris
en asuntos de religión los hombres encuentran placer en ser aterrorizados y que no hay predicadores más populares que los que excitan la mayor tristeza y las pasiones más tétricas.
~ David Hume
There is a sadness that only hunters know, a moment when lament overshadows any desire for celebration. Life is sustained by death, and though going to the field is an act of taking responsibility for that fact, the killing is not easy, nor should it be.
~ David Joy
You know, I read once that if you're sad, you're living in the past. If you're anxious, you're living in the future. But if you're at peace, you're living in the present.
~ David Koepp
is deeply sad when we use the greatest being of all as an instrument for our own smallness.
~ David Lagercrantz
Study always to have Joy, for it befits not the servant of God to show before his brother or another sadness or a troubled face.
~ Francis of Assisi
God is not a God of sadness, death, etc., but the devil is. Christ is a God of joy, and so the Scriptures often say that we should rejoice ... A Christian should and must be a cheerful person.
~ Martin Luther
Blue. My God! I'm so blue that if I were a dog, I'd sit on my haunches and howl and howl and howl...
~ Alice Dunbar Nelson
The saddest thing that befalls a soul is when it loses faith in God and woman.
~ Alexander Smith
God must have something to do with joy ... and with sadness.
~ Joan Baez
It is a sad day for our country when the moral foundation of our law and the acknowledgment of God has to be hidden from public view to appease a federal judge.
~ Soledad O'Brien
Tears are often a gift from God, and sadness is a healthy emotion.
~ Alan Loy McGinnis
'Don't Cry Daddy' is a pretty sad song. He got to the end of it and it was just real quiet and Elvis says, 'I'm gonna cut that someday for my daddy'. And, by God, he did. He lived up to his word.
~ Mac Davis
My God! So sad to hear about Amy Winehouse! My deepest condolences to her friends and family and fans. You will be missed Amy xoxox
~ Dave Navarro