Quotes by Sadness Let's face it: Sadness and evil are always more believable than happiness and love. When a movie reviewer calls a film "realistic," everyone knows what that means--it means the movie has an unhappy ending. Chuck Klosterman sadness evil mean I tend to equate sadness with intelligence. Chuck Klosterman sadness When you're an addict, you can go without feeling anything except drunk or stoned or hungry. Still, when you compare this to other feelings, to sadness, anger, fear, worry, despair, and depression, well, an addiction no longer looks so bad. It looks like a very viable option. Chuck Palahniuk drunk sadness worry For the first time in longer than I can remember, I feel peaceful. Not happy. Not sad. Not anxious. Not horny. Just all the higher parts of my brain closing up shop. The cerebral cortex. The cerebellum. That's where my problem is. I'm now simplifying myself. Somewhere balanced in the perfect middle between happiness and sadness. Because sponges never have a bad day. Chuck Palahniuk closing-up bad-day sadness I think part of the sadness of Hamlet is given different circumstances, this guy had the capability of being something really great and not ending up poisoned on the ground. Chukwudi Iwuji sadness guy thinking Time heals many wounds but this loss becomes the defining sadness of your life. Claire Cook sadness grief loss I think that what I knew as a teenager, and what I rediscovered in my mid-forties, was - aside from the primacy of sexual desire and how strongly it rules me - this idea that we are lucky to feel something. Even if that something is sadness. Claire Dederer teenager sadness thinking And even sadness was also something for rich people, for people who could afford it, for people who didn't have anything better to do. Sadness was a luxury. Clarice Lispector luxury sadness people I want the following word: splendor, splendor is fruit in all its succulence, fruit without sadness. I want vast distances. My savage intuition of myself. Clarice Lispector intuition distance sadness this is one of my absolute favourite quotes its from the evernight series (stargazer) charity to Balthazar You remind me of too much. you remind me of what it felt like to be alive, to think of sunlight as something you could enjoy instead of something you could bare, to breath and have it change you, refresh you, awaken you, instead of just churning on and on some old useless habit that taunts you with what you use to be, to sigh and feel relief, to cry and let your sadness pass, instead of having it all bottled up inside of you forever and ever until you don't know who you are any more. Claudia Gray sadness forever thinking Once there had been joy, but now there was only sadness, and it was not, he knew, alone the sadness of an empty house; it was the sadness of all else, the sadness of the Earth, the sadness of the failures and the empty triumphs. Clifford D. Simak sadness house joy I'm a poet,' the young man said, 'And it's my job to remember the sadness of things. Clive Barker sadness jobs men Allow beauty and sadness to touch you. This is love, not fear. Colleen Saidman sadness Pain could be killed. Sadness could not, but the drugs did shut its mouth for a time. Colson Whitehead sadness drug pain What is God-given is called nature; to follow nature is called Tao (the Way); to cultivate the way is called culture. Before joy, anger, sadness and happiness are expressed, they are called the inner self; when they are expressed to the proper degree, they are called harmony. The inner self is the correct foundation of the world, and the harmony is the illustrious Way. When a man has achieved the inner self and harmony, the heaven and earth are orderly and the myriad of things are nourished and grow thereby. Confucius sadness self men I've cried, and you'd think I'd be better for it, but the sadness just sleeps, and it stays in my spine the rest of my life. Conor Oberst sadness sleep thinking And I sing and sing of awful things The pleasure that my sadness brings. Conor Oberst awful pleasure sadness Each leaf that brushed his face deepened his sadness and dread. Each leaf he passed he'd never pass again. They rode over his face like veils, already some yellow, their veins like slender bones where the sun shone through them. He had resolved himself to ride on for he could not turn back and the world that day was as lovely as any day that ever was and he was riding to his death. Cormac McCarthy lovely sadness yellow I don't know of a great artist who did not sacrifice and thereby have to wrestle with the depths of loneliness and sadness. Cornel West sacrifice sadness loneliness Any great artist is wrestling with their sadness and loneliness, their fears, anxieties and securities, and they're transfiguring those into complicated forms of expression that affect our hearts, minds and souls and remind us of who we are as human beings, the fragility of our human status and the inevitability of death. Cornel West sadness loneliness heart «7891011121314151617»
