And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain ways, they can't ever be fixed, and this is something nobody ever tells you when you are young and it never fails to surprise you as you grow older as you see the people in your life break one by one. You wonder when your turn is going to be, or if it's already happened. —Douglas Coupland in Life After God More about this quote Tags: failure youth sadness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Only the broken-hearted know the truth about love. —Mason Cooley More about this quote Tags: truth love heart sadness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Depression is sadness gone wrong. —Lewis Wolpert More about this quote Tags: depression sadness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Nostalgia is my vice. Nostalgia is a melancholy, and slightly saccharine, sentiment, like tenderness. —Isabel Allende in My Invented Country More about this quote Tags: sadness vice nostalgia tenderness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You usually can't recall all the people you've shared laughs with. But you rarely forget the people you've shared your tears with. —Mya Robarts in The V Girl More about this quote Tags: laughter sadness tears sharing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Perhaps it is the greater grief to be left on earth when another is gone. —Madeline Miller in The Song of Achilles More about this quote Tags: grief death loss sadness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Unless you've touched a corpse before, you can't comprehend the visceral wrongness of inert flesh wrapped around an inanimate object that wears your mother's face. You feel sick with guilt and regret and sadness about inconsequential anecdote. You can't remember anything thoughtful or sweet or tender that you ever did even though logically you know you must have. All you can recall is how often you were small and petty and false. She was your mother and she loved you in a way nobody ever has and nobody ever will and now she's gone. —Elan Mastai in All Our Wrong Todays More about this quote Tags: perspective death sadness body guilt corpse Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it. —Russell Baker More about this quote Tags: sadness misery company Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad. —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow More about this quote Tags: knowledge sadness sorrows coldness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email