Quotes by Sadness None will ever be a true Parisian who has not learned to wear a mask of gaiety over his sorrows and one of sadness, boredom, or indifference over his inward joy. Gaston Leroux boredomsadnessjoy My stepfather used to be a clown in The Shrine Circus. He took me backstage when I was 23. I saw three elephants chained to the cement floor in the warehouse of the Michigan State Fairgrounds. Sadness, hopelessness and fear were emanating from their eyes, from their bodies. They were swaying neurotically from side to side. A monkey was screaming in his cage, grabbing the bars of his prison. Two tigers were pacing feverishly in their tiny cages. Cruelty was staring me in the face. I knew something was wrong. If you pay attention to energy, you can tell when a fellow being is in peril. Gary Yourofsky sadnesselephantseye The BBC is part of the glue which binds the United Kingdom together. At those times of national moment - of joy or sadness, in the UK or around the world, at times when the nation wants to celebrate, mourn or just enjoy itself people turn to the BBC. Gavyn Davies sadnessjoypeople Hoping a situation will change keeps you at a distance from your true feelings-sadness, anger, fear. Each of these feelings is best appreciated up close. Feel them deeply, and they will cease to bother you. Hope they'll go away, and they'll bother you all day. Gay Hendricks distancesadnesscompassion You know, all the evil in the world, all the sadness comes from not having a good answer to that question: What do I do next? You just keep thinking of good things to do, lad. You'll be all right. We'll all be all right. I wanted you to know that. Geoff Ryman sadnessevilthinking I have seen him set fire to his wigwam and smooth over the graves of his fathers... clap his hand in silence over his mouth, and take the last look over his fair hunting ground, and turn his face in sadness to the setting sun. George Catlin huntingsadnessfather The smile on your face is sometimes out of place, don't mind no frowns, cheer down. George Harrison sadnesscheermind There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope. George Eliot learningsadnesshope If drinking don't kill me, her memory will. George Jones sadnessdrinkingmemories Beauty and sadness always go together. George MacDonald sadnesstogetherbeauty It is not ignoble to feel that the fuller life which a sad experience George Eliot sadnesspainfeelings Beware of sadness It can hit you It can hurt you Make you sore and what is more That is not what you are here for. George Harrison sadnesshurt As in all sweetest music, a tinge of sadness was in every note. Nor do we know how much of the pleasures even of life we owe to the intermingled sorrows. Joy cannot unfold the deepest truths, although deepest truth must be deepest joy. George MacDonald sadnesssorrowjoy Always there's that space between what you feel and what you do, and in that gap, all human sadness lies. George Rodrigue sadnessspacelying I rose as from the death that wipes out the sadness of life, and then dies itself in the new morrow. George MacDonald wipesadnessrose The microscopes that magnified the tears, studied warts and all. Still life flows on. George Harrison sadnessflowtears Sadness came into the world with Satan - that world our Saviour never prayed for, the world you say I do not know. Oh, it is not so difficult to recognize: it is the world that prefers cold to warmth! What can God find to say to those who, of their own free will, of their own weight incline towards sadness and turn instinctively towards the night? Georges Bernanos sadnessnightworld The Sarajevans have a very particular world view - a mordant wit coupled with this unbearable sadness and... truckloads of guts, you know. Geraldine Brooks sadnessviewsworld Thousands of lives were suddenly ended by evil, despicable acts of terror. The pictures of airplanes flying into buildings, fires burning, huge structures collapsing, have filled us with disbelief, terrible sadness and a quiet, unyielding anger. George W. Bush fire-burningairplanesadness Family likeness has often a deep sadness in it. Nature, that great tragic dramatist, knits us together by bone and muscle, and divides us by the subtler web of our brains; blends yearning and repulsion; and ties us by our heart-strings to the beings that jar us at every movement. George Eliot sadnesstiesheart«1819202122232425262728»
