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Quotes About Sadness

I left him in his wheelchair, staring sadly into the fireplace. I wondered how many times he'd sat here, waiting for heroes that never came back.
~ Rick Riordan
The dead are hard to look at. Their faces shimmer. They all look slightly angry or confused. they will come up to you and speak, but their voices sound like chatter, like bats twittering. Once they realize you can't understand them, they frown and move away. The dead aren't scary. They're just sad.
~ Rick Riordan
For the first time, Cupid's gaze seemed sympathetic. Oh, I wouldn't say Love always makes you happy. His voice sounded smaller, much more human. Sometimes it makes you incredible sad. But at least you've faced it now. That's the only way to conquer me.
~ Rick Riordan
He pushed that thoughts away. He didn't like painful memories. Keep moving -- that was his motto. Don't dwell in things. Don't stay in one place too long. It was the only way to stay ahead of the sadness.
~ Rick Riordan
Will had kissed Nico for the first time in a moment of impulsiveness, something Nico didn't know Will had in him. The kiss had been just like this one, short and sweet. Then Will had pulled away, worry on his face, an apology tumbling from his lips. Nico had stopped him. Then kissed him back. In a moment so full of grief and rage and sadness, Will had given him … Light.
~ Rick Riordan
LEO WAS DEAD.
~ Rick Riordan
The situation was so pathetically sad, it was almost funny.
~ Rick Riordan
The dead aren't scary, they're just sad.
~ Rick Riordan
Harold?' 'Poor man, I suppose
~ Kate Atkinson
Because he gets scared, he becomes human. Because, my grandmother said, love makes you human. And the loss of love is pain, is fear, is sadness. The boy's wife had hurt him. Before he had nothing to lose, and now, of course, he did.
~ Kate Bernheimer
I'd thought I had recovered for good from that sadness, but as I felt my marriage disintegrate, the memory of my raw yearning for babies and my husband's refusal to have them with me came back to me as part of the reason I was now leaving him. It felt like the heart of why I was so lonely with him.
~ Kate Christensen
My heart, thought Edward, my heart is broken.
~ Kate DiCamillo
As they walked back to the Kentucky Star, Rob thought about what Willie May had said about the tiger rising on up. It reminded him of what she had said about his sadness needing to rise up. And when he thought about the two things together, the tiger and his sadness, the truth circled over and above him and then came and landed lightly on his shoulder. He knew what he had to do.
~ Kate DiCamillo
Three semis drove past us. One was painted with a picture of a cow standing in a field of green grass. I was jealous of that cow because she was at home and I was not. It seemed like a very sad thing to be jealous of a fake cow on the side of a truck.
~ Kate DiCamillo
Some part of me instinctively reached out, and in an odd way understood this pain, never imagining that I would someday look in the mirror and see their sadness and insanity in my own eyes.
~ Kay Redfield Jamison
We all build internal sea walls to keep at bay the sadnesses of life and the often overwhelming forces within our minds... But love is, to me, the ultimately more extraordinary part of the breakwater wall: it helps to shut out the terror and awfulness, while, at the same time, allowing in life and beauty and vitality.
~ Kay Redfield Jamison
It would be the saddest thing to me, princess. To walk separately from you, when the ground will let us go as we always did.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
What I mean is, right from that first time, there was something in Tommy's manner that was tinged with sadness, that seemed to say: "Yes, we're doing this now and I'm glad we're doing it now. But what a pity we left it so late.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
Like you were sad, maybe. And a bit scared.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
It was very sad that Peter should be like this, Philip thought. The man was dedicated to God's work and he had a fine mind and great strength of purpose. But he seemed to have a compelling need to feel special and be noticed by others all the time; this drove him to create scenes.
~ Ken Follett
No puedo creer que lo nuestro vaya a terminar de esta manera.
~ Ken Follett
Solo se permitía el lujo de sentirse triste unos pocos minutos cada noche antes de dormirse
~ Ken Follett
Hacía que le dieran ganas de echarse a llorar por su país.
~ Ken Follett
Exhaló un suspiro tan profundo y triste».
~ Ken Follett