Sadness Quotes (2453 Quotes)
- Martin in particular concluded that man was born to live either in the convulsions of misery, or in the lethargy of boredom.
(Voltaire, "Candide")
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- Don't forget that in the midst of all your pain and heartache, you are surrounded by beauty, the wonder of creation, art, your music and culture, the sounds of laughter and love, of whispered hopes and celebrations, of new life and transformation, of reconciliation and forgiveness.
(W. Paul Young, "The Shack")
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- And then he felt the misery of his life.
(W. Somerset Maugham, "Of Human Bondage")
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- That time we separated was my idea. I thought, well, I'm fifty years old and there might be someone else out there. People waste their happiness - that's what makes me sad. Everyone's so scared to be happy.
(Wally Lamb, "She's Come Undone")
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- Agonies are one of my changes of garments.
(Walt Whitman, "Leaves of Grass")
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- Is there any wilderness of sand in the deserts of Arabia, is there any prospect of desolation among the ruins of Palestine, which can rival the repelling effect on the eye, and the depressing influence on the mind, of an English country town in the first stage of its existence, and in the transition state of its prosperity?
(Wilkie Collins, "The Woman in White")
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- I, the dreamer clinging yet to the dream as the patient clings to the last thin unbearable ecstatic instant of agony in order to sharpen the savor of the pain's surcease, waking into the reality, the more than reality, not to the unchanged and unaltered old time but into a time altered to fit the dream which, conjunctive with the dreamer, becomes immolated and apotheosized
(William Faulkner, "Absalom, Absalom!")
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- You could concentrate much more deeply when you were alone with agony.
(William Goldman, "The Princess Bride")
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- We mourn the blossoms of May because they are to whither; but we know that May is one day to have its revenge upon November, by the revolution of that solemn circle which never stops---which teaches us in our height of hope, ever to be sober, and in our depth of desolation, never to despair.
(William Peter Blatty, "The Exorcist")
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- But it is a melancholy of mine own, compounded of many simples, extracted from many objects, and indeed the sundry contemplation of my travels, which, by often rumination, wraps me in the most humorous sadness.
(William Shakespeare, "As You Like It")
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- Blessed be shock. Blessed be the part of us that protects us from too much pain and sorrow. At the heart of life is a fusebox.
(Yann Martel, "Life of Pi")
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- For the first time I noticed - as I would notice repeatedly during my ordeal, between one throe of agony and the next - that my suffering was taking place in a grand setting. I saw my suffering for what it was, finite and insignificant, and I was still. My suffering did not fit anywhere, I realized. And I could accept this. It was all right.
(Yann Martel, "Life of Pi")
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- Misery loves company, and madness calls it forth.
(Yann Martel, "Life of Pi")
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- It was very sad, he thought. The things men carried inside. The things men did or felt they had to do.
(Tim O'Brien, "The Things They Carried")
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- Where do you get the right to decide our lives? I'll tell you where. From that little hog's gut that hangs between your legs. Well, let me tell you something... you will need more than that. I don't know where you will get it or who will give it to you, but mark my words, you will need more than that.... You are a sad, pitiful, stupid, selfish, hateful man. I hope your little hog's gut stands you in good stead, and you take good care of it, because you don't have anything else.
(Toni Morrison, "Song of Solomon")
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