Some people turn sad awfully young. No special reason, it seems, but they seem almost to be born that way. They bruise easier, tire faster, cry quicker, remember longer and, as I say, get sadder younger than anyone else in the world. I know, for I'm one of them. —Ray Bradbury in Dandelion Wine More about this quote Tags: people youth sadness nature sensitivity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Someday you’re gonna look back on this moment of your life as such a sweet time of grieving. You’ll see that you were in mourning and your heart was broken, but your life was changing. —Elizabeth Gilbert in Eat, Pray, Love More about this quote Tags: change grief sadness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income. —George Bernard Shaw More about this quote Tags: sadness wealth comfort Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Let him cry whoever feels like crying, for we were animals before we became reasoning beings, and the shedding of a tear, whether of forgiveness or of pity or of sheer delight at beauty, will do him a lot of good. —Lin Yutang More about this quote Tags: crying sadness tears Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There’s no quick fix for grief. No shortcuts, no easy answer, no way to erase it. Only time can do that, and even then, just barely. —Alyson Noël in Night Star More about this quote Tags: time memory grief sadness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We are nature. We are nature seeing nature. We are nature with a concept of nature. Nature weeping. Nature speaking of nature to nature. —Susan Griffin More about this quote Tags: identity sadness nature concept Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Sometimes it takes a heartbreak to shake us awake and help us see we are worth so much more than we’re settling for. —Mandy Hale in The Single Woman More about this quote Tags: sadness settling heartbreak Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
No man is broken because bad things happen to him. He’s broken because he doesn’t keep going after those things happen. —Courtney Milan in Unraveled More about this quote Tags: sadness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable. —Woody Allen More about this quote Tags: life sadness misery Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Master Shaku Soen liked to take an evening stroll through a nearby village. One day he heard loud lamentations from a house and, on entering quietly, realized that the householder had died and the family and neighbors were crying. He sat down and cried with them. An old man noticed him and remarked, rather shaken on seeing the famous master crying with them, "I would have thought that you at least were beyond such things." "But it is this which puts me beyond it," replied the master with a sob. —Irmgard Schloegl More about this quote Tags: wisdom sadness feelings Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be on to something. Not to be on to something is to be in despair. —Walker Percy More about this quote Tags: life sadness searching quotidian Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Despair is as addictive as heroin and more popular than sex, for the single reason that when one is unhappy one gets to pay a lot of attention to oneself. Misery becomes a kind of emotional masturbation. —Tom Robbins More about this quote Tags: despair sadness sex misery unhappiness masturbation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand. —Baruch Spinoza More about this quote Tags: understanding sadness indignation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There is a woe that is wisdom, a woe that is madness. —Herman Melville More about this quote Tags: wisdom sadness sanity woe madness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It’s sad when you think about it, but also kind of beautiful. —Gabrielle Zevin in All These Things I’ve Done More about this quote Tags: beauty sadness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email