Quotes About Sadness

I'm so sorry," he said, because after Pamela died, he promised himself that if anyone told him the smallest, saddest story, he would answer, I'm so sorry. Meaning, Yes, that happened. You couldn't believe the people who believed that not mentioning sadness was a kind of magic that could stave off the very sadness you didn't mention – as though grief were the opposite of Rumpelstiltskin and materialized only at the sound of its own name.

The truth is, I feel beyond sad. I feel empty. Numb.

I think you're the saddest person I've ever met. It's like you're drowning in it.

It was always sad, the way the world was going. And always a new age dawning.

It was a sad moment. There are sad moments in life, and this was one of them.

Verdriet is zoiets- o, het is zoiets éénzaams; dat is het beangstigende ervan, denk ik. Het is alsof je langs de glaswand van een heel hoog gebouw naar beneden glijdt terwijl niemand je ziet.

the sight of him then broke my heart. But I was used to that feeling—I had it almost every time after I saw him.

It hurt my heart with a heaviness as though a damp and dirty dishcloth lay across it.

felt a sense of dismalness.

The privacy of sorrow.

other. And because she had, ever since then, been weeping from a private faucet inside her, unable to keep

But I was so sad that evening: I understood—as I have understood at different points in my life—that the childhood isolation of fear and loneliness would never leave me. My childhood had been a lockdown.

The sadness that rose and fell in me was like the tides.

But it's a sad story, Lucy. Both Pam and Jim are in New York and they always will be, and I will always be here in Maine." We sat in silence while I absorbed this. Oh, he broke my heart!

But she no longer felt sadness about it, the pressure of sorrow that had overtaken her at the table, the longing for all the Burgess kids, and the sense of the irreplaceable familiarity of her old life-that had passed the way the cramping of a stomach muscle passes, and the absence of its pain was glorious.

My sad heart foams at the stern.

Mille rêves en moi font de douces brûlure : Puis par instants mon cÅ"ur triste est comme un aubier Qu'ensanglante l'or jeune et sombre des coulures.

Yes, Man is sad beneath the echoing sky; he clothes himself, he is no longer chaste, he has soiled his splendid body, gift of the gods... Yes, even after death, in pallid skeletons he hopes to live, insulting the beauty he once owned!

the grim looks on their faces that they, too, didn't like leaving a battle unfought. I can feel your sadness, Brax sent the thought to me. It is understandable. But that is the unforgiving logic of war. Hard choices have to be made. I know, I sent back. The logic doesn't make the choice any easier. Pray choices like that never become easy.

Vegas means comedy, tragedy, happiness and sadness all at the same time.

Sometimes life is truly woeful.

Poor little corpses! It was too bad they were dead. He couldn't play with them. Even though they really stank. He couldn't stand the smell. They deserved to die for smelling so bad.

Ya no había nada que él pudiera hacer, así que se dejó ir resignado, triste, como quien se desliza a lo largo de un pozo profundo y oscuro. Hasta

I had waited for the tears to stop before I called him, waited until my whole body was empty and dry, hard as a fist. But now I felt the sadness rising again in my chest.