Our lives are one endless stretch of misery punctuated by processed fast foods and the occasional crisis or amusing curiosity.
Our lives are one endless stretch of misery punctuated by processed fast foods and the occasional crisis or amusing curiosity.
The flowers were beaten down, their bent-over heads bejeweled with diamond droplets like earring on sad, rich widows
Is this what sadness is all about? Is it what comes over us when beautiful memories shatter in hindsight because the remembered happiness fed not just on actual circumstances but on a promise that was not kept?
As long as this exists, this sunshine and this cloudless sky, and as long as I can enjoy it, how can I be sad?
I get cross, then sad, and finally end up turning my heart inside out, and keep trying to find a way to become what I'd like to be and what I could be if....if only there were no other people in the world.
She was wearing a pair of my pajamas with the sleeves rolled up. When she laughed I wanted her again. A minute later she asked me if I loved her. I told her it didn't mean anything but that I didn't think so. She looked sad.
Some other memories of the funeral have stuck in my mind. The old boy's face, for instance, when he caught up with us for the last time, just outside the village. His eyes were streaming with tears, of exhaustion or distress, or both together. But because of the wrinkles they couldn't flow down. They spread out, crisscrossed, and formed a smooth gloss on the old, worn face.
Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn't nearly so spectacular as instability. And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune, none of the picturesqueness of a struggle with temptation, or a fatal overthrow by passion or doubt. Happiness is never grand.
There are some situations which men understand by instinct, by which reason is powerless to explain; in such cases the greatest poet is he who gives utterance to the most natural and vehement outburst of sorrow. Those who hear the bitter cry are as much impressed as if they listened to an entire poem, and when th sufferer is sincere they are right in regarding his outburst as sublime.
The truth is life is full of joy and full of great sorrow, but you can't have one without the other.
But smiles and tears are so alike with me, they are neither of them confined to any particular feelings: I often cry when I am happy, and smile when I am sad.
'T is impious in a good man to be sad.
Horses are part of our Western heritage that we love to celebrate. From that point of view it really is kind of a sad day. But it's also a day where the department needs to be accountable to taxpayers.
But I sate silent and alone,
Wrapped in the mock of mourning weed.
What a little vessel of sadness we are, sailing in this muffled silence through the autumn dark.
Long in misery
I wasted, ere in one extremest fit
I plung'd for life or death.
I am deeply grieved at the sad news of the great loss of life and serious damage caused by the recent hurricane disaster in your country. I wish to express to you and the people of your country my heartfelt condolences,
With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine.
I'm really sad. It's so tragic, so senseless. Regardless of the circumstances, whether he was pushed or fell, all I know is he went into the water and he died.
We who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of pain, and the record of bitter moments.
A lot of things can be read into it, but essentially it's about the desire to be an artist and what a struggle that is. It's about everything. You've got issues of being a man, finding meaning and the struggle to express oneself. The sad thing is that sometimes someone doesn't really have the talent or the voice to do that.
The stories were so sad, terrifying and tragic A Thai woman who had helped us escape had turned around to get her children, but they had been swept out to sea an American-Irish couple who had spent the past 15 years of their lives on their sailboat had watched their boat and all their belongings get smashed,
In my early years I read very hard. It is a sad reflection, but a true one, that I knew almost as much at eighteen as I do now.
I feel that if John Wilkes Booth hadn't shot Abraham Lincoln, Lincoln would have come through his pain and emerged like Livingston has. This album was made with the wisdom that comes from allowing yourself to be recklessly entwined with your agony and sorrow.
They admitted to making a huge mistake and they said they'd pay the money back, ... They showed some remorse. It's just a sad deal all the way around.
The time to read is any time: no apparatus, no appointment of time and place, is necessary. It is the only art which can be practiced at any hour of the day or night, whenever the time and inclination comes, that is your time for reading; in joy or sorrow, health or illness.
If I get the forty additional years statisticians say are likely coming to me, I could fit in at least one, maybe two new lifetimes. Sad that only one of those lifetimes can include being the mother of young children.
In durance vile 1here must I wake and weep, And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep.
Four things I am wiser to know Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.
Sadness is also a kind of defence.
In light of the apology and his expression of sorrow over Sharon's health, we will reconsider our decision.
I will be sad. I've gotten very attached to Harry and all that goes on in his world, I guess I'll just be kind of tasting every bit of it because it will be the last one.
We never taste a perfect joy; our happiest successes are mixed with sadness.
Among the native people who became important to Boyden was Francis Pegahmagabow, a sniper credited with killing 378 Germans during the Great War, who is fictionalised as the sharpshooter Peggy in the novel. Pegahmagabow was the chief of the Parry Island reserve near where Boyden's mother now lives, and Boyden grew up with his grandchildren. Francis looked at being a sniper as a job, neither with happiness nor sadness, ... To him it was like trapping and he was very good at it. But Canadians have completely forgotten him.
It's what's in your gut. It's sad. It hurts me. It's not something I'd like to do or want to do. But I think it is the right decision.
It's a sad state of affairs that we have only one choice (for abortion) right now. But if you have to go out of state, the cost of making that trip will be prohibitive.
It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well nor the judgment to hold their tongues.
Affliction comes to us all not to make us sad, but sober not to make us sorry, but wise not to make us despondent, but by its darkness to refresh us, as the night refreshes the day not to impoverish, but to enrich us, as the plough enriches the field.
The rhythm persisted, the unfaltering common meter of blues, but the blueness itself, the sorrow, the despair, began to give way to hope.
My music is homegrown from the garden of New Orleans. Music is everything to me short of breathing. Music also has a role to lift you up - not to be escapist but to take you out of misery.
This is a sad and tragic situation for this child and his family and I offer sympathy to them. This unfortunate situation could have been avoided with proper crime prevention measures in the proper storage of the firearm.
I think there were people in the press who knew the truth, but who regarded Jackie as a national treasure - quite rightly - and didn't want to cause her any distress.
That kid has so much heart and character. On senior day, that's going to be a sad day for me. She was in bed for the last two days. She was about 50 percent (Wednesday) afternoon when I talked to her and she wanted to play. That's a lot of heart on her part.
I guess lyrically they're similar because they're talking about escaping the kind of misery that likes company. 'The Last One Alive,' for me, is very simple. It's just about alienation, really, that causes anger.
Drink today, and drown all sorrow; you shall perhaps not do tomorrow.
Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. We must all carry our share of the misery which lies upon the world.
For though I made you sorry with a letter, I do not repent, though I did repent for I perceive that the same epistle hath made you sorry, though it were but for a season. Now I rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye sorrowed to repentance for ye were made sorry after a godly manner, that ye might receive damage by us in nothing. For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of but the sorrow of the world worketh death.
I think I have a dark view of the world. I have to make everything funny, otherwise it all seems so sad.
Just the fact that we have to conduct this type of investigation at the Tampa Police Department makes it a sad moment for the TPD, that this type of behavior, this type of language was present on a squad.
People are lonely, sad, anxious and angry and marriages, families and romances are in a mess and relationships are what people are most interested in and we can offer help there.
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