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“You feel sadness for time passing. New York is a city that keeps reinventing itself, and I love it so much.”

Feels Cities Sadness New York Passing Passings Time Passing Time Passes Reinventing

Author:Greta Gerwig

“Freddie experienced the sort of abysmal soul-sadness which afflicts one of Tolstoy's Russian peasants when, after putting in a heavy day's work strangling his father, beating his wife, and dropping the baby into the city's reservoir, he turns to the cupboards, only to find the vodka bottle empty.”

Soul Turns Father Cities Wife Sadness Baby Empty Heavy Bottles Dropping Peasants Reservoirs Vodka Cupboards Strangling

Author:P. G. Wodehouse

“The black asphalt wouls shimmer with vapors I had a theory about those vapors...not released by the sun but by a huge onion buried under the city. This onion made us cry... I thought about the giant onion, that remarkable bulb of sadness.”

Made Black Cities Sun Sadness Cry Theory Huge Giants Remarkable Buried Onions Bulbs Vapor Shimmer Asphalt

Author:Gary Soto

“Madame V begins the lesson by reading aloud the first stanza of a famous French poem: Il pleure dans mon coeur Comme il pleut sur la ville; Quelle est cette langueur Qui penetre mon coeur? Then she looks up and without any warning she calls on me to translate it. I swallow hard, and try: "It's raining in my heart like it's raining in the city. What is this sadness that pierces my heart?" Saying these words out loud, right in front of the whole class, makes me feel like I'm not wearing any clothes.”

Feels Trying Firsts Looks Heart Hard Whole Reading Cities Class Sadness Fronts My Heart Lessons Clothes Rain Loud Look Up Warning Translate Pierce Reading Aloud

Author:Sonya Sones

“Sadness to me is the happiest time, When a shining city rises from the ruins of my drunken mind. Those times when I'm silent and still as the earth, The thunder of my roar is heard across the universe.”

Mind Stills Earth Spiritual Universe Cities Heard Sadness Shining Silent Ruins Thunder Across The Universe

Author:Rumi

“Nobody but a Southerner knows the wrenching rinsing sadness of the cities of the North.”

Knows Cities Sadness Southerner

Book:The Moviegoer

Source: The Moviegoer

“When I see brokenness, poverty and crime in inner cities, I also see the enormous potential and readiness for transformation and rebirth. We are creating an art form that comes from the heart and reflects the pain and sorrow of people's lives. It also expresses joy, beauty, and love. This process lays the foundation of building a genuine community in which people are reconnected with their families, sustained by meaningful work, nurtured by the care of each other and will together raise and educate their children. Then we witness social change in action.”

“In great cities men are more callous both to the happiness and the misery of others, than in the country; for they are constantly in the habit of seeing both extremes.”

Men Country Cities Seeing Sadness Habit Misery Extremes Great Cities Callous

Book:Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

“His whole being radiates a pure, wild sweetness, flitting through night woods with little melodious cries, on some cryptic errand. There is also an aura of doom and sadness about this trusting little creature. He has been abandoned many times over the centuries, left to die in cold city alleys, in hot noon vacant lots, pottery shards, nettles, crumbled mud walls. Many times he has cried for help in vain.”

“Someone will ask later, sometimes searching for a name, his own or someone's else's why I neglected his sadness or his love... But I didn't have enough time or ink for everyone. Or maybe it was the strain of the city, of time the cold heart of the clocks.”

Heart Sometimes Enough Time Asks Names Cities Sadness Cold Clock Strain His Love Ink Neglected Enough Time Cold Heart

Author:Pablo Neruda

“When we are fully mindful of the transience of things - an impending return home from an overseas adventure, a graduation, our child boarding the school bus for the first day of kindergarten, a close colleague changing jobs, a move to a new city - we are more likely to appreciate [be grateful for] and savor the remaining time that we do have. Although bittersweet experiences also make us sad, it is this sadness that prompts us, instead of taking it for granted, to come to appreciate the positive aspects of our vacation, colleague, or hometown; it's 'now or never.'”

“I am one of the searchers. There are millions of us. We are not unhappy, but neither are we really content. We continue to explore ourselves, hoping to understand. We are drawn by the ocean, taken by its power, its unceasing motion, its mystery & unspeakable beauty. We like forests & mountains, deserts & hidden rivers, & lonely cities. Our sadness is as much a part of our lives as is our laughter. To share our sadness with one we love is perhaps as great a joy as we can know.”

Knows Joy Love Is Cities Millions Taken Our Lives Mystery Sadness Share Mountain Ocean Laughter Rivers Lonely Unhappy Forests Desert Unspeakable Searchers

Author:James Kavanaugh

“The thought that all experience will be lost at the moment of my death makes me feel pain and fear... What a waste, decades spent building up experience, only to throw it all away... We remedy this sadness by working. For example, by writing, painting, or building cities.”

Feels Writing Moments Pain Lost Cities Sadness Example Building Painting Waste Decades Remedy Building Up

Author:Umberto Eco

“The drive to Black Rock City from San Francisco leads through the Nevada flatlands, past the jittering neon sadness of Reno.”

Past Black Cities Sadness Rocks San Francisco Neon Nevada

Book:Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism

Source: Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism