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Quotes About Sadness

No hay nada malo en estar deprimido —dice Pearsall—. La vida y sus transiciones pueden ser tristes. Llorar... no es ser "disfuncional". Es ser humano.»
~ Robert Kelsey
Someone is going to tell you to get use to this. That feeling of being scared and sad. They're going to say it'll be better when you learn to ignore it. Don't listen to them. Hold on to it, remember it... Don't let yourself forget it. It's too easy to lose. -Carl Grimes
~ Robert Kirkman
was only forty-six years old. Losing
~ Roberta Edwards
Reading is pleasure and happiness to be alive or sadness to be alive and above all it's knowledge and questions.
~ Roberto Bolano
Se me llenaron los ojos de lágrimas beodas
~ Robin Maugham
the sheep] sidled up beside him and bumped him lovingly with its head. Val looked at it sadly. I am sorry, you ugly creature, he said. I have not used my magic in a long time, and I am very out of practice.
~ Robin McKinley
I'll make you this promise: on your deathbed, in the twilight of your life, it will not be all the risks you took that you will regret the most. Rather, what will fill your heart with the greatest amount of regret and sadness will be all those risks that you did not take, all those opportunities you did not seize and all those fears you did not face.
~ Robin S. Sharma
Even with battleproofed beliefs and the distinguished thinking of a world-class mindset, you won't win if your heart is full of anger, sadness, disappointment, resentment and fear.
~ Robin S. Sharma
Philosophers call this state of isolation and disconnection "species loneliness"—a deep, unnamed sadness stemming from estrangement from the rest of Creation, from the loss of relationship. As our human dominance of the world has grown, we have become more isolated, more lonely when we can no longer call out to our neighbors. It's no wonder that naming was the first job the Creator gave Nanabozho.
~ Robin Wall Kimmerer
Your woman is gone and your heart is heavy. Words will not lighten the weight, and what is written is written. But let it also be put down that I grieve with you. ~Hasan~
~ Roger Zelazny
Right now, Dinabai's face, and Om's, and mine are all occupied. Worrying about work and money, and where to sleep tonight. But that does not mean we are not sad. It may not show on the face, but it's sitting inside here.' He placed his hand over his heart. 'In here, there is limitless room – happiness, kindness, sorrow, anger, friendship
~ Rohinton Mistry
Like love, mourning affects the world—and the worldly—with unreality, with importunity. I resist the world, I suffer from what it demands of me, from its demands. The world increases my sadness, my dryness, my confusion, my irritation, etc. The world depresses me.
~ Roland Barthes
Mourning. At the death of the loved being, acute phase of narcissism: one emerges from sickness, from servitude. Then, gradually, freedom takes on a leaden hue, desolation settles in, narcissism gives way to a sad egoism, an absence of generosity.
~ Roland Barthes
People tell you to keep your courage up. But the time for courage is when she was sick, when I took care of her and saw her suffering, her sadness, and when I had to conceal my tears. Constantly one had to make a decision, put on a mask and that was courage. --Now, courage means the will to live and there's all too much of that.
~ Roland Barthes
He would smile at times, but I never heard him laugh aloud," said Louisa Boggs. "He was a sad man . . . he seemed almost in despair."124 Grant seemed to be staring into an abyss. "I don't think he saw a light ahead—not a particle. I don't think he had any ambition further than to educate and take care of his family.
~ Ron Chernow
A small, sad smile spread across the woman's face. "I would love to go visit Dendoncker. Believe me. I'd be there in a heartbeat. But we can't. It's impossible." "No such thing as impossible. Just inadequate preparation.
~ Lee Child
Happiness is an illusion, Natalie. It doesn't actually exist. Of course it does, I said. It's what you feel when you're not sad. That's unconsciousness. And I'm pretty sure that I'm miserable when I am unconscious, too.
~ Lee Goldberg
Because it's still a heartache. And nothing makes you want to die more than that.
~ Lee Nichols
He had a hundred merry crinkles at his eyes and a long-haul sadness in his shoulders.
~ Leif Enger
His sadness seemed complete. It had left him nothing, no proper enjoyment, no Saturday mornings. Sadness wore him like a tailored suit.
~ Leif Enger
There is nothing sadder than an aging hipster.
~ Lenny Bruce
T]he more one reads Thucydides, the less one feels that Athens's suffering was fitting or deserved. And, more generally, our first response to the book as a whole is not satisfaction at justice having been done, but is far more likely to be a feeling of sadness. This sadness arises, in large measure at least, from a growing sense that the defeat of Athens is not the victory of justice, but that justice itself is among the chief victims of the war.
~ Leo Strauss
Profoundly moved, he kissed the lax waiting mouth with exquisite unhappiness.
~ Leonard Gardner
In Michelangelo was realized the grandeur of Italy struggling vainly against crushing oppression. He expressed that which was highest in it, reflecting the loftiest side of its idealism mingled with deep pessimism in his survey over life; for, wrapped in austerity, he saw mankind in heroic terms of sadness.
~ Leonardo da Vinci