Quotes About Sadness

Are you going to cry, Mr. Bronson?" the child asked in concern, coming to stand beside his knees, staring into his downturned face. He managed to smile at her. "Just a little on the inside," he said raspily. He felt her little hand on his cheek, and he held utterly still as she kissed him on the nose.

To turn from this institution 'in the position of not-believing: 'This would be the utopian turn. 'I can't do it. 'So I pierce utopia 'with divine boredom. And then the dog - for it was a dog who spoke' gently ambled off betwixt black trunks of trees and I am going to tell you that this dog glanced back in simple sadness said 'Soon there will be only society'.

I felt the sadness thoroughly. I believed it then. I wrote the sadness in my diary, I drank the sadness in my room or in cafés, I fucked the sadness. I almost believed I was the sadness.

How sad, I think now, to live an entire life blinded by the ordinary.

I am deeply saddened by the death of my dear friend, Dudley Moore.

Angry is just sad's bodyguard.

Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness its poison

Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison.

Matthew figures it must be pretty horrible to need therapy if it makes people so sad.

They had nothing. He wanted to weep. She makes men cry, Morris had said. Maybe they ought to.

You get used to sadness, growing up in the mountains, I guess.

It was the first time she'd experienced separation, and the empty feeling deep inside her hurt something awful. She had no one to talk to, no one to explain the hollowness.

Every laugh and good time that comes my way feels ten times better than before I knew such sadness.

His expression is sad instead of angry now. Anger is the go-to feeling for most people because it's outward-directed—angrily blaming others can feel deliciously sanctimonious.

Of course, anger serves another function—it pushes people away and keeps them from getting close enough to see you. I wonder if John needs people to be angry at him so that they won't see his sadness.

If I had to describe what love meant, really, not in the abstract or the sentimental or the way I'd imagined it before, that I'd say it was completely irrational, made up of so many opposites, the kind that couldn't exist without the other: bliss and sadness, courage and fear, adoration and disgust.

Ellie wiped her eyes with the back of her hand; sometimes she didn't realize she'd been crying until the tears slid off her chin and dripped down her neck.

To have just been born for beauty & see sadness What is this frail sickness?

People still mourn when people die. That's self-sympathy. All human beings are selfish to a certain extent, and that's why people get so sad when someone dies. They haven't finished using him. The person who is dead ain't crying. Sadness is for when a baby is born into this heavy world, and joy should be exhibited at someone's death because they are going on to something more permanent and infinitely better.

She was the right girl at the right time. She had only a small repertory of Child ballads, never trained her pure soprano and annoyed some purists because she was indifferent to the origins of her material and sang everything 'sad'.

Grief when it comes, is nothing we expect it to be. It was not what I felt when my parents died: my father died a few days short of his eighty-fifth birthday and my mother a month short of her ninety-first, both after some years of increasing debility. What I felt in each instance was sadness, loneliness (the loneliness of the abandoned child of whatever age), regret for time gone by, for things unsaid.

Sacramento was the least typical of the Valley towns, and it is—but only because it is bigger and more diverse, only because it has had the rivers and the legislature; its true character remains the Valley character, its virtues the Valley virtues, its sadness the Valley sadness.

The saddest day in the world will be the one when she stops pretending.

I can laugh because I've known sadness. I am fearless because I have been afraid. And I am wise because I've been foolish before.