Quotes by Sadness The largest part of what we call 'personality' is determined by how we've opted to defend ourselves against anxiety and sadness". Alain de Botton sadness personality worry Most anger stems from feelings of weakness, sadness and fear: hard to remember when one is at the receiving end of its defiant roar. Alain de Botton weakness sadness feelings The arrogance that says analysing the relationship between reasons and causes is more important than writing a philosophy of shyness or sadness or friendship drives me nuts. I can't accept that. Alain de Botton sadness writing philosophy It is perhaps sad books that best console us when we are sad. Alain de Botton console sadness book Some say it is best not to go near the center of time. Life is a vessel of sadness, but is noble to live life and without time there is no life. Others disagree. They would rather have an eternity of contentment, even if that eternity were fixed and frozen, like a butterfly mounted in a case. Alan Lightman live-life butterfly sadness Thoughts are no more than electrical surges in the brain. Sexual arousal is no more than a flow of chemicals to certain nerve endings. Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum. In short, the body is a machine, subject to the same laws of electricity and mechanics as an electron or clock. Alan Lightman sadness law brain Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum. Alan Lightman arousal sadness depression I think all tragedies are best told with some humor. You have to relieve the darkness to let the reader get through it. Also, that life has happiness and sadness mixed together. If you told a story that was all darkness, it wouldn't be real. Alan Lightman sadness real thinking Tears are often a gift from God, and sadness is a healthy emotion. Alan Loy McGinnis sadness healthy tears We're taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they're of equal value to happiness, excitement and inspiration. Alanis Morissette sadness anger inspiration I'm sad, but I'm laughing. Alanis Morissette im-sad sadness laughing I'm consumed by the chill of solitary. Alanis Morissette solitary chill sadness I have as much rage as you have, I have as much pain as you do, I've lived as much hell as you have, and I've kept mine bubbling under for you. Alanis Morissette hell sadness pain I spent a long time looking at faces, drinking in smiles. Am I happy or unhappy? It’s not a very important question. I live with such frenzied intensity. Things and people are waiting for me, and doubtless I am waiting for them and desiring them with all my strength and sadness. But, here, I earn the right to be alive by silence and by secrecy. The miracle of not having to talk about oneself. Albert Camus sadness drinking long It would be my greatest sadness to see Zionists (Jews) do to Palestinian Arabs much of what Nazis did to Jews. Albert Einstein nazi sadness would-be My country's main exports are stolen cars and sadness. Aleksandar Hemon car sadness country I spotted a can in the corner whose red label read SADNESS. Was there so much of it they could can it and sell it? A bolt of pain went through my intestines before I realized that it was not SADNESS but SARDINES. Aleksandar Hemon labels sadness pain I'm the most passionate about pushing the realization that there's the joy of love and kindness and sharing, all of these basic qualities, on people who are suffering from adulthood. By these people, I mean, I really feel bad. I think that in their sadness, they're destroying the world. The way that they're destroying the world manifests itself in all these various causes that you have banding together all over the place. Alex Ebert sadness kindness mean Lou knew that joy unshared was a halved emotion, just as sadness and loss, when borne alone, were often doubled. Alexander McCall Smith sadness loss joy I oscillate between life and death, happiness and sadness, good and evil. Alexander McQueen life-and-death sadness evil «1234567891011»
