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Quotes About Sadness

Well, you were sad about the kids for a while, for a month, two months, three months. You're sad about the kids, sad about the animals, you don't do the women, you don't kill the animals, but after that you realize this is a war zone and everybody here lives in it. You don't care whether these people live or die tomorrow, you don't care whether you yourself live or die tomorrow, you kick the children aside, you do the women, you shoot the animals.
~ Denis Johnson
Skip experienced no excitement. Only the lethargy and sadness of a man freezing to death.
~ Denis Johnson
He was a sad case. His jacket was lightweight and yellow. He might have been wearing it for the first time. It was the kind of jacket a foreigner would buy in a store while saying to himself, "I am buying an American jacket.
~ Denis Johnson
I've built something valuable here. But valuable things also have a way of being misunderstood in their own time. Everyone wants a quick fix. We're tired of being afraid, tired of being sad, tired of feeling overwhelmed, tired of feeling tired. We want the old day back, and we don't even remember them, and we want to push into the future, paradoxically, at top speed. Patience and forbearance become the first casualties of progress.
~ Dennis Lehane
Everyone wants a quick fix. We're tired of being afraid, tired of being sad, tired of feeling overwhelmed, tired of feeling tired. We want the old days back, and we don't even remember them, and we want to push into the future, paradoxically, at top speed. Patience and forbearance become the first casualties of progress.
~ Dennis Lehane
Grief, he said, is carnivorous.
~ Dennis Lehane
Happiness comes in moments, and then it's gone until the next time. Could be years. But sadness'"—Val winked—"'sadness settles in.
~ Dennis Lehane
Guy in prison says to me once, he says, 'Happiness comes in moments, and then it's gone until the next time. Could be years. But sadness'"—Val winked—"'sadness settles in.
~ Dennis Lehane
She couldn't tell if the sadness in his smile stemmed from pity for her or if he just possessed a sad smile.
~ Dennis Lehane
It breaks my heart to love you.
~ Unknown
Forgiveness does not mean that we pretend things are anything other than they are. I am hurt, we say. I am betrayed, we announce. I am in pain and grief. I have been treated unfairly. I am feeling ashamed. I am angry this has been done to me. I am sad and I am lost. I may never forget what you have done to me, but I will forgive. I will do everything in my power not to let you harm me again. I will not retaliate against you or against myself.
~ Desmond Tutu
Post coitum omne animalium triste est
~ Diana Gabaldon
sorrow and despair. All too many
~ Diana Gabaldon
It's a very sad thing to do, to divorce.
~ Kristian Bush
I like to be sad once in a while. You need it for your equilibrium.
~ Marjane Satrapi
I gargled a laugh, but I'd never felt more like crying in my life. "I'm fine.
~ Ilsa J. Bick
Sometimes when you're sad, it's easier to be angry.
~ Ilsa J. Bick
Potato potato, your death is now my sorrow
~ Unknown
Helena (börjar gråta): Ser du, nu gråter jag. Det glada, fina livet är slut, det hemska, skitige livet kastar sig över oss. Så är det.
~ Ingmar Bergman
suffice to say, joy is where you find it- usually on the shelf right next to sadness.
~ Unknown
Anger is a way of holding sadness at bay; the emotions are two sides of the same coin. Anger is energizing. When we are angry we look out, adopt a protective posture, and get ready for action. In contrast, sadness saps our energy. When sad, we look inward, become reflective, and are aware of our vulnerability.
~ Ira Byock
Once again, both Chris and I were manipulated like small puppets in our world of adults. We didn't like it, and we suffered, but the tall ones around us said that we would soon get over our sadness, that we would "adapt" in a matter of weeks.
~ Irene Hunt
How sad the world is, so beautiful yet so absurd...
~ Irene Nemirovsky
I lost the sunshine and roses, I lost the heavens so blue, I lost the beautiful rainbow, I lost the morning dew. I lost the angel who gave me Summer the whole winter through, I lost the gladness that turned into sadness When I lost you.
~ Irving Berlin