Quotes by Sadness To walk into Bill Olsen's poems is to enter a mind so weirdly curious, you can't be released to sadness, not yet: it's just too surprising. But this book-half microscope, half telescope-shadows grief, our shared and ordinary life where an old neighbor obsessively gathers twigs to wish back the tree, where the moon is regularly ‘sawn in half,’ where sprinklers give off ‘little wet speeches.’ What else? It's brilliantly instead and odd. Marianne Boruch sadnessgriefbook ...to make art is to realize another's sadness within, realize the hidden sadness in other people's lives, to feel sad with and for a stranger. Marianne Wiggins sadnesspeopleart She smiles through a thousand tears, and harbors adolescent fears. She dreams of all that she can never be, she wades in insecurity. Mariah Carey insecuritysadnessdream So much of the deep lingering sadness over President Kennedy's assassination is about the unfinished promise: unspoken speeches, unfulfilled hopes, the wondering about what might have been. Marian Wright Edelman president-kennedys-assassinationsadnesspromise In an expression of true gratitude, sadness is conspicuous only by its absence Marcus Aurelius gratitudesadnessexpression Gloom and sadness are poison to us, and the origin of hysterics. You are right in thinking that this disease is in the imagination; you have defined it perfectly; it is vexation which causes it to spring up, and fear that supports it. Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne sadnessspringthinking Often we see a couple who has separated or divorced and look with sadness at the ‘failure’ of their relationship. But if both people learned what they were meant to learn, then that relationship was a success. Marianne Williamson sadnesscouplepeople Maybe sadness was a kind of hunger, she thought. Maybe the two went together. Margaret Atwood sadnesstogethertwo You're sad because you're sad. It's psychic. It's the age. It's chemical. Go see a shrink or take a pill, or hug your sadness like an eyeless doll you need to sleep. Well, all children are sad but some get over it. Count your blessings. Better than that, buy a hat. Buy a coat or a pet. Take up dancing to forget. Margaret Atwood sadnesssleepchildren Nature is a mirror in which I am reflected, because by rescuing this land from sad devastation [through recreating it in photographs], I am in fact trying to save myself from my own inner sadness. Mario Giacomelli sadnessmirrorsland Some people, every now and then, simply had to have One Too Many, go drifty voiced and slouch mouthed, swimming willfully around in their own sadness as if it were hot springs. Marisha Pessl swimmingsadnessspring If you have a dog, you will most likely outlive it; to get a dog is to open yourself to profound joy and, prospectively, to equally profound sadness. Marjorie Garber sadnessdogfriendship Bubba shot the jukebox last night, said it played a sad song and it made him cry. Mark Chesnutt sadnesssongnight Creativity starts with humanity when were being human we feel - joys, sadness, when we're sick, when we're nervous Marilyn Monroe creativitysadnesssick I have come to see that our problem is that we don't know what happiness is. We confuse it with a life uncluttered by feelings of anxiety, rage, doubt, and sadness. But happiness is something entirely different. It's the ability to receive the pleasant without grasping and the unpleasant without condemning. Mark Epstein anxietysadnessfeelings While it only takes one spouse to be friendly, it takes both spouses to be friends. When both spouses are unfriendly, the marriage is marked by conflict and coldness. When one spouse is friendly and the other is unfriendly, the marriage is marked by selfishness and sadness. But when both spouses each make a deep, heartfelt covenant with God to continually seek to become a better friend, increasing love and laughter mark the marriage. Mark Driscoll laughtersadnesslove I try to look at life carefully and reproduce life the way life is. It's a question of looking carefully at how it is. In life, you don't have total happiness. People always say that. But you don't have total sadness either, no matter what situation you are living in. Marjane Satrapi sadnesstryingpeople I wanna outrace the speed of pain. Marilyn Manson speedsadnesspain Sometimes sadness is appropriate. Not something to run from, not something to numb...just something to feel. Marianne Williamson sadnessrunningsometimes To be mad is to feel with excruciating intensity the sadness and joy of a time which has not arrived or has already been. Mark Helprin madsadnessjoy«3839404142434445464748»
