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Quotes About Sadness

Sadness flies on the wings of the morning, and out of the heart of darkness comes the light.
~ Jean Giraudoux
The weight of this sad time we must obey, Speak what we feel, not what we have to say: The oldest hath borne most; we that are young Shall never see so much, nor live so long.'" Then
~ Jean Hegland
What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.
~ Jean Paul
A tragedy need not have blood and death it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy.
~ Jean Racine
You are Emperor, my lord, and yet you weep?
~ Jean Racine
A tragedy need not have blood and death; it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy.
~ Jean Racine
Have all beautiful things sad destinies?
~ Jean Rhys
Yes, I am sad, sad as a circus-lioness, sad as an eagle without wings, sad as a violin with only one string and that one broken, sad as a woman who is growing old. Sad, sad, sad...
~ Jean Rhys
He was too tough to experience disappointments and resentments — negative affections. In this nihilist fin de siècle, he was affirmation. Right through to illness and death. Why did I speak of him in the past? He laughed, he is laughing, he is here. It's your sadness, idiot, he'd say.
~ Jean-Francois Lyotard
To have hope in these times is an act of courage. To experience catastrophic sadness, to recognize the brutality of life, and still maintain hope--That is everything. Because in order to flourish in the desert, to grow in the bleak, shallow dust and still believe in the possibility of beauty requires a special kind of persistence, It's not only patience and grit and strength, I realized. It's also faith.
~ Jeanine Cummins
Endings are sad, aren't they?" "Yes.
~ Jeanne Birdsall
Woof," he said sadly. "Poor Hound," said Batty. "Poor Hound, indeed." Mr. Penderwick was not sympathetic. "Even he should know not to eat towels.
~ Jeanne Birdsall
And depression settled over the kitchen like a wet fog.
~ Jeanne Birdsall
There is sadness and evil in the world, yes. There is also goodness and beauty and justice. The one is as real as the other, and we must keep that fact firmly in mind or lose all sense of proportion.
~ Jeanne M. Dams
She had to treat it like a tactical error, not a human tragedy, because she was not sure that his unfinished jigsaw of a brain understood sadness and loss.
~ JEFF ABBOTT
I'm convinced I got signed because of who I am. And it makes me sad.
~ Jeff Buckley
When I walk into environments where the walls are clear, or even covered with pleasant artwork — or worst of all, motivational posters — it makes me sad.
~ Jeff Patton
Anything that tends to make us elated is inevitably going to throw us into depression.
~ Eknath Easwaran
Antes, quando eu estava contente com as coisas, eu era feliz. Mas agora, com o Jamie... Eu estou contente por ter tapetes, quadros, coisas boas para comer, que eu posso andar e correr, ir para a escola e tudo mais. Mas quanto mais eu estou feliz por mim mesma, mais triste eu sou por ele.
~ Eleanor H. Porter
La gente deambulaba por la plaza, hechizada por el recuerdo olvidado de la fiesta; de ese olvido provenía la tristeza de esos días. "Algún día recordaremos, recordaremos
~ Elena Garro
Hay días como hoy, en los que recordarme me da pena.
~ Elena Garro
It's a laugh that comes from beyond happiness and sadness. From beyond faith and anger. It's a laugh that only the dead can appreciate.
~ Elie Wiesel
You have entered an abnormal, lonely, and unwelcome new world where you are nothing but an island of sadness.
~ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
are not accustomed to the emotional upheaval that accompanies a loss. People experience a wide array of emotions after a loss, from not caring to being on edge to feeling angry or sad about everything. We can go from feeling okay to feeling devastated in a minute without warning. We can have mood swings that are hard for anyone around us to comprehend, because even we don't understand them.
~ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross