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“ought we not, from time to time, open ourselves up to cosmic sadness? ... Give your sorrow all the space and shelter in yourself that is its due, for if everyone bears his grief honestly and courageously, the sorrow that now fills the world will abate. But if you do not clear a decent shelter for your sorrow, and instead reserve most of the space inside you for hatred and thoughts of revenge-from which new sorrows will be born for others-then sorrow will never cease in this world and will multiply.”

Ifs World Giving Born Space Grief Clear Sadness This World Bears Ought Sorrow Hatred Revenge Dues Honestly Cease Decent Cosmic Shelter Reserves

Author:Etty Hillesum

“Out-worn heart, in a time out-worn, Come clear of the nets of wrong and right; Laugh, heart, again in the grey twilight, Sigh, heart, again in the dew of the morn.”

Heart Laughing Clear Sadness Longing Twilight Worn Grey Sigh Dew

Author:William Butler Yeats

“Live with it. You live with pleasure, don't you? Why don't you live with suffering completely? Can you live with it in the sense of not escaping from it? What takes place? Watch. The mind is very clear, sharp. It is faced with the fact. The very suffering transformed into passion is enormous. From that arises a mind that can never be hurt. Full stop. That is the secret.”

Mind Facts Suffering Passion Hurt Pleasure Secret Watches Clear Sadness Sad Enormous Arise Transformed Escaping

Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti

“Justice divine has weighed: the doom is clear. All hope renounce, ye lost, who enter here.”

Lost Justice Clear Sadness Divine Sad Doom Renounce

Book:Dante's Inferno: The Divine Comedy, Book One

Source: Dante's Inferno: The Divine Comedy, Book One

“Recurrent floods of sadness and anger gradually wash away the rubble of the defunct relationship, leaving only the bits of treasure: the remembered moments of real communion, a new understanding of your own mistakes, a clear picture of the dysfunctions you will never tolerate again.”

Real Moments Bits Understanding Mistake Clear Sadness Leaving Treasure Remembered Tolerate Flood Communion Broken Hearted Dysfunction Rubble Brokenhearted Sadness And Anger

Author:Martha Beck

“From personal experience, I completely agree that it is often easier to go for monotone sadness. When I was starting out, I wrote a gazillion short stories that ran the gamut of human suffering - drug addiction, child abuse, terminal illness, loved ones dying by all manner of misfortune, etc. In hindsight, it's clear that I mistook the power of the situation for the power of the story.”

“If my pictures are about anything at all, I think it's about trying to make a connection in the world. I see them as more optimistic in a certain way. Even though it's very clear there's a level of sadness and disconnection, I think that they're really about trying to make a connection and almost the impossibility of doing so.”

Ifs Thinking World Way Trying Certain Levels Clear Sadness Connections Optimistic Impossibility Disconnection

Author:Gregory Crewdson

“It is better to travel with hope in one's heart than to arrive in safety. . . . We should celebrate today's failure because it is a clear sign that our voyage of discovery is not yet over. The day the experiment succeeds is the day the experiment ends. And I inevitably find that the sadness of ending outweighs the celebration of success.”

Should Heart Ends Today Clear Sadness Succeed Discovery Safety Experiments Celebrate Celebration Voyages Voyages Of Discovery

Author:Jacqueline Kelly

“I’m not clear enough in the head to feel anything but varieties of dull anger and arrows of sadness.”

Feels Enough Clear Sadness Variety Dull Arrows

Author:Virginia Woolf

“That's the thing I want to make clear about depression: It's got nothing at all to do with life. In the course of life, there is sadness and pain and sorrow, all of which, in their right time and season, are normal-unpleasant, but normal. Depression is an altogether different zone because it involves a complete absence: absence of affect, absence of feeling, absence of response, absence of interest. The pain you feel in the course of a major clinical depression is an attempt on nature's part (nature, after all, abhors a vacuum) to fill up the empty space.”

Source: Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America

“Yellow is a very favorable vibration for mental or intellectual activity, as it promotes a clear state of mind. Yellow heightens your awareness and alleviates depression, sadness, or any kind of despondency. Yellow vibration foods are: pineapples, bananas, grapefruit, lemons and corn.”

Mind Kind States Clear Sadness Awareness Activity Intellectual State Of Mind Yellow Corn Vibrations Bananas Lemons Alleviate Despondency Pineapples Grapefruit

Author:Tae Yun Kim

“When we are upset, it’s easy to blame others. However, the true cause of our feelings is within us. For example, imagine yourself as a glass of water. Now, imagine past negative experiences as sediment at the bottom of your glass. Next, think of others as spoons. When one stirs, the sediment clouds your water. It may appear that the spoon caused the water to cloud – but if there were no sediment, the water would remain clear no matter what. The key, then, is to identify our sediment and actively work to remove it.”