Quotes by Sad 'Tis they who are in their own chambers haunted By thoughts that like unbidden guests intrude, And sit down, uninvited and unwanted, And make a nightmare of the solitude. Ella Wheeler Wilcox sad solitude guests How will it be when one of us alone Goes on that strange last journey of the soul? That certain search for an uncertain goal, That voyage on which no comradeship is known? Ella Wheeler Wilcox sad goal journey I was as pure as the morning When I first looked on your face; I knew I never could reach you In your high, exalted place. Ella Wheeler Wilcox sad faces morning God made poor woman with no heart, But gave her skill, and tact, and art, And so she lives, and plays her part. We must not blame, but pity her. Ella Wheeler Wilcox sad play art Wiped the cold dew-drops from his cheek And sought the mourner's side again. "Once more, dear lady, I must speak: Your last remaining son was slain Just at the closing of the fight; Twas he who sent me here to-night." "God knows," the man said afterward, "The fight itself was not so hard." Ella Wheeler Wilcox sad fighting son Let the dream go. Are there not other dreams Ella Wheeler Wilcox sad dream beautiful Man could not live if he were entirely impervious to sadness. Many sorrows can be endured only by being embraced, and the pleasure taken in them naturally has a somewhat melancholy character. Emile Durkheim sad taken life Sadness does not inhere in things; it does not reach us from the world and through mere contemplation of the world. It is a product of our own thought. We create it out of whole cloth. Emile Durkheim sad sorrow world Affection is like bread, unnoticed till we starve, and then we dream of it, and sing of it, and paint it, when every urchin in the street has more than he can eat. Emily Dickinson sad bread dream Melancholy: an appetite no misery satisfies. Emile M. Cioran melancholy misery sad We are born princes and the civilizing process makes us frogs. Eric Berne knowing-who-you-are sad civilization Love means not ever having to say you're sorry. Erich Segal sad sorry love It is loneliness that makes the loudest noise. This is true of men as of dogs. Eric Hoffer sad missing-you i-miss-you There is some sadness for me now about acting because it used to be that there was a reverence for actors. Estelle Parsons sad actors acting No one goes straight to happiness after a breakup. Estelle sad breakup In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day. F. Scott Fitzgerald depressing sad morning What greater pain could mortals have than this: To see their children dead before their eyes? Euripides sad pain children And lastly from that period I remember riding in a taxi one afternoon between very tall buildings under a mauve and rosy sky; I began to bawl because I had everything I wanted and knew I would never be so happy again. F. Scott Fitzgerald sad sky happiness I wanted to die, then. I wanted to destroy the body I was trapped in, become what she was, no matter what it took. No matter how much mutilation or pain. But he looked away, at me. He pulled my face down and pressed my lips against his like he was almost trying to suffocate us both. Francesca Lia Block sad pain suicide A Strange melancholy pervades me to which I hesitate to give the grave and beautiful name of sorrow. The idea of sorrow has always appealed to me but now I am almost ashamed of it's complete egoism. I have known boredom, regret, and occasionally remorse, but never sorrow. Today it envelops me like a silken web, enervating and soft, and sets me apart from everybody else. Francoise Sagan sad regret beautiful «23456789101112»