“Writing is alchemy. Dross becomes gold. Experience is transformed. Pain is changed. Suffering may become song. The ordinary or horrible is pushed by the will of the writer into grace or redemption, a prophetic wail, a screed for justice, an elegy of sadness or sorrow. ... There is always a tension between experience and the thing that finally carries it forward, bears its weight, holds it in. Without that tension, one might as well write a shopping list.” WritingWellsMayMightPainSufferingSongJusticeGraceSadnessChangedBearsSorrowOrdinaryGoldWeightListsHorribleRedemptionTensionCarrieShoppingTransformedAlchemyPropheticDrossElegy Author:Andrea Dworkin
“There are those who thought that on The Big Day, December 21, 2012, the world would end. It did not. Indeed, little has changed, and that is the greatest sadness. After all the hype and all the hope, little seems to have changed.” WorldLittlesEndsBigsSeemsSadnessChangedHypeDecember Author:Neale Donald Walsch
“We changed it to emocionó, the way you say in Spanish, "to emotion me" [to be moved]. That, as opposed to "haunt." We wanted the feeling of sadness and grief and obsession, so we used emocionó.” WayFeelingsWantedUsedGriefEmotionSadnessChangedMovedObsession Author:Sandra Cisneros
“So as a seventh grader, no, you weren't friends with people you didn't like. But sometimes you also weren't friends with people you did like, which was complicated, and which didn't make any sense if you tried to explain it. Sometimes things just changed. That's where the sadness came in.” PeopleIfsSometimesSadnessChangedComplicated Book:Thirteen Source: Thirteen
“He was looking at me, jsut as I'd thought he would be, but like Bert's, his light was not what I expected. No pity, no sadness: nothing had changed. I realized all the times I'd felt people stare at me, their faces had been pictures, abstracts. None of them were mirrors, able to reflect back the expression I thought one I wore, the feelings only I felt.” PeopleFeelingsLightWould BeAbleFacesFeltSadnessChangedExpressionMirrorsExpectedI RealizedPityStaring Author:Sarah Dessen
“Nostalgia is a way of remembering people and places and things, and wishing things hadn't changed. It has a sweetness to it. Sadness is just--well--being sad.” PeopleWayWellsRememberWishSadnessChangedNostalgiaWell BeingSweetnessBeing Sad Book:Creed's Honor Source: Creed's Honor
“And now everything has changed once again. The air of the Close each evening is full of bird song - I've never really noticed it before. Full of birdsong and summer perfumes, full of strange glimpses and intimations just out of the corner of my eye, of longings and sadness and undefined hopes.It has a name, this sweet disturbance. Its name is Lamorna.” EyeSongNamesAirSadnessChangedStrangeSweetSummerBirdLongingCornersEveningGlimpsePerfumeDisturbanceThings Have ChangedBirdsongUndefinedBird Song Author:Michael Frayn