Best sadness & anxiety Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Any great artist is wrestling with their sadness and loneliness, their fears, anxieties and securities, and they're transfiguring those into complicated forms of expression that affect our hearts, minds and souls and remind us of who we are as human beings, the fragility of our human status and the inevitability of death.”

“Nostalgia! I feel it even for someone who meant nothing to me, out of anxiety for the flight of time and a sickness bred of the mystery of life. If one of the faces I pass daily on the streets disappears, I feel sad; yet they meant nothing to me, other than being a symbol of all life.”

Ifs Life Feels Faces Time Mystery Sadness Streets Anxiety Disappear Nostalgia Flight Symbols Sickness Mystery Of Life I Feel Sad

Book:The Book of Disquiet

Source: The Book of Disquiet

“The root of the problem I have is anxiety, and it's all derived from something - I'm just going to say it, some kind of sadness. It manifests in so many different ways and it affects people differently.”

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Author:Vinny Guadagnino

“In fact, numerous scientific laboratory tests and field observations have led to the conclusion that animals are conscious, intelligent, emotional beings. They are not machines and truly feel physical pain when it is inflicted upon them. They are capable of experiencing a wide range of emotions, including loneliness, embarrassment, sadness, longing, depression, anxiety, panic, and fear, as well as joy, relief, surprise, happiness, contentment, and peace.”

“It's been proven that the thoughts we choose have everything to do with our emotions. I can tell you that a commitment to feeling good can take away a stomach ache, fear, depression, sadness, anxiety - you name it. Any stress signal is a way of alerting you to say the five magic words: I want to feel good. This is your intention to be tranquil and stress free - and it's a way of connecting to spirit.”

Feelings Spirit Emotion Magic Sadness Anxiety Commitment Stress Intention Feel Good Tranquil

Author:Wayne Dyer

“So you mustn't be frightened, dear Mr. Kappus, if a sadness rises in front of you, larger than any you have ever seen; if an anxiety - like light and cloud-shadows, moves over your hands and everything you do. You must realize that something is happening to you, that life has not forgotten you, that it holds you in the palm of its hand and will not let you fall.”

Ifs Hands Light Moving Faith Fall Fear Realizing Sadness Fronts Anxiety Happenings Shadow Forgotten Dear Clouds Frightened Palms

Author:Rainer Maria Rilke

“The boy was lying, fast asleep, on a rude bed upon the floor; so pale with anxiety, and sadness, and the closeness of his prison, that he looked like death; not death as it shews in shroud and coffin, but in the guise it wears when life has just departed; when a young and gentle spirit has, but an instant, fled to Heaven: and the gross air of the world has not had time to breathe upon the changing dust it hallowed.”

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Book:Oliver Twist: Classic English Literature

Source: Oliver Twist: Classic English Literature

“When that ineffable compound of depression, sadness (these two are not the same), anxiety, self-hatred, sense of failure and fear for the future begins to steal over you, start telling yourself that what you have is a hangover. You are not sickening for anything, you have not suffered a minor brain lesion, you are not all that bad at your job, your family and friends are not leagued in a conspiracy of barely maintained silence about what a s**t you are, you have not come at last to see life as it really is and there is no use crying over spilt milk.”

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Author:Kingsley Amis

“Usually she ordered a cup of coffee and a cup of tea, as well as a brownie, propping up her sadness with chocolate and caffeine so that it became an anxiety.”

Wells Worry Sadness Anxiety Coffee Cups Tea Chocolate Coffee Cup Caffeine Cups Of Tea Brownies

Author:Lorrie Moore

“Happiness in a tablet. This is our world. Prozac. Daxil. Xanax. Billions are spent to advertise such drugs. And billions are spent purchasing them. You don't even need a specific trauma, just 'general depression' is enough, or anxiety, as if sadness is as treatable as the common cold.”

Ifs World Needs Enough Common Sadness Cold Drug Anxiety Trauma Billions Our World Tablets Purchasing Prozac Common Cold Xanax

Author:Mitch Albom

“The largest part of what we call 'personality' is determined by how we've opted to defend ourselves against anxiety and sadness".”

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Author:Alain de Botton

“Avoiding problems doesn't make them go away - you think it does, but it really doesn't. They're just postponed. Those problems just stay inside your subconscious and brew until your body gets to a point where it's had enough and decides to release some of the stress itself. That's what an anxiety attack is! It happens when you don't know how to vent your frustration, fears, stress, sadness, madness, whatever it is that bothers you, the things you should be confronting and getting closure with. If you don't confront these things and deal with them, your body does it for you.”

“If you don’t think your anxiety, depression, sadness and stress impact your physical health, think again. All of these emotions trigger chemical reactions in your body, which can lead to inflammation and a weakened immune system. Learn how to cope, sweet friend. There will always be dark days.”

“All negativity is caused by an accumulation of psychological time and denial of the present. Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry - all forms of fear - are caused by too much future, and not enough presence. Guilt, regret, resentment, grievances, sadness, bitterness, and all forms of nonforgiveness are caused by too much past, and not enough presence.”

Source: The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

“Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.”

Thinking Giving Feels Reality Happiness Enjoy Perfect Risk Sadness Needed Anxiety Capacity Satisfaction Fortunate Perfect Happiness

Author:William James

“SADNESSES OF THE INTELLECT: Sadness of being misunderstood [sic]; Humor sadness; Sadness of love wit[hou]t release; Sadne[ss of be]ing smart; Sadness of not knowing enough words to [express what you mean]; Sadness of having options; Sadness of wanting sadness; Sadness of confusion; Sadness of domes[tic]ated birds; Sadness of fini[shi]ng a book; Sadness of remembering; Sadness of forgetting; Anxiety sadness.”

Life Mean Book Enough Remember Forget Knowing Sadness Anxiety Smart Bird Intellect Wit Confusion Release Not Knowing Misunderstood Domes Tics Being Misunderstood

Book:Everything Is Illuminated

Source: Everything Is Illuminated

“No matter what you are dealing with in life, be it resentment or regret, bitterness or sadness, anger or apathy, hatred or hesitation, depression or disempowerment, disappointment or other destructive anxieties, painful envy or emotional turmoil, fear of isolation or thoughts of failure, keep in mind that if you are positive, positivity will find you and embrace you!”

“Depressed, anxious, sad, frightened? Yes. But I've never been bored.”

Feelings Interest Sadness Sad Depression Anxiety Bored Cinema Excitement Boredom Frightened Anxious Cinematography

Author:Dustin Hoffman

“I have come to see that our problem is that we don't know what happiness is. We confuse it with a life uncluttered by feelings of anxiety, rage, doubt, and sadness. But happiness is something entirely different. It's the ability to receive the pleasant without grasping and the unpleasant without condemning.”

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Author:Mark Epstein

“In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.”

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Author:F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Fear and anxiety and sadness are not necessarily always undesirable or unhelpful states of mind; rather, they are often representatives of the necessary pain of psychological growth. And to deny that pain is to deny our own potential. ...If you just chase after highs to cover up the pain, if you continue to indulge in entitlement and delusional positive thinking, if you continue to overindulge in various substances or activities, then you'll never generate the requisite motivation to actually change.”

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Book:The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

Source: The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

“It ate at whatever was warm nearby, and then the coldness settled in permanently. You learned to live with it”

Love Feelings Emotion Sadness Anxiety

Book:Snow Falling on Cedars

Source: Snow Falling on Cedars

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