Quotes tagged ‘Sadness’

“I think you are wrong to want a heart. It makes most people unhappy. If you only knew it, you are in luck not to have a heart.”

— L. Frank Baum, amazon.com

“Depression is like a bruise that never goes away. A bruise in your mind. You just got to be careful not to touch it where it hurts. It's always there, though.”

— Jeffrey Eugenides, amazon.com

“A good muddy juice fills Joelle’s mouth with spit that’s as good as the juice, and her linen veil is drying and beginning once again comfortingly to flutter with her breath, and, perched alone and glanced at covertly by persons who don’t know they know her voice, she feels the desire to raise the ve…”

— David Foster Wallace, amazon.com

“There are no happy endings, endings are the saddest part, so just give me a happy middle, and a very happy start.”

— Shel Silverstein, amazon.com

“And I catch myself thinking today that our long journey had only defiled with a sinuous trail of slime the lovely, trustful, dreamy, enormous country that by then, in retrospect, was no more to us than a collection of dog-eared maps, ruined tour books, old tires, and her sobs in the night— every nig…”

— Vladimir Nabokov, amazon.com

“I want to be your best when you are not your best. I will not judge you for your sadness, I will not resent your for your flaws. When life gets rough, know that I will always be there to hold your hand, I will always be there to turn off the world for you. I don’t want you to think that you ever hav…”

— Bianca Sparacino, thoughtcatalog.com

“At times I hardly can believe in you. Except this ache, this longing in my gut, this emptiness which theorizes you because if there is emptiness this deep,there must be fullness somewhere.”

— Erica Jong, amazon.com

“Your soul has fallen to bits and pieces. Good. Rearrange them to suit yourself.”

— Hermann Hesse, amazon.com

“It’s just how it is sometimes. Things hurt, and they hurt for a long time. You have to fight back, or it wins.”

— Robin Benway, amazon.com

“Some of the most told stories are the ones that don’t end well, the ones that are beautiful because someone laid it all on the line, was brave and vulnerable and submitted to the human condition. If that’s your story, its time to stop running from it and start taking pride in the fact that you were…”

— Brianna Wiest, thoughtcatalog.com

“Sadness does not last forever when we walk in the direction of that which we always desired.”

— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com

“Only human eyes can weep.”

— Andrew Marvel, amazon.com

“Telling me I’m not allowed to be sad because there are other people out there who have it worse is like telling me I can’t be happy because other people have it better.”

— Anonymous, facebook.com

“Broken hearts — if used wisely and compassionately — are absolutely necessary for spreading the fire of love.See, when your heart breaks open, all the love that has been hidden and buried within it for years has the opportunity to now spill forth — and to cover everyone around you with love...and al…”

— Elizabeth Gilbert, facebook.com

“I am trying to get a jingle into your head. A furtive hammering hammering of words that should sound cheerful. They don't always come out cheerful. Sometimes your sadness is contagious and I feel I can't make a joke. If I don't find a gag in the swarm of daily misery, I start sinking into the mud of…”

— Hector Abad, pushkinpress.com

“If you want to pick out the devastated or soon-to-be-devastated from the stream of people leaving Mount Sinai, I decided, don't look for frank expressions of sorrow or concern, look for people whose faces resemble those of passengers deplaning after a long flight— a blank expression as the body begi…”

— Ben Lerner,