“The only sadnesses that are dangerous and unhealthy are the ones that we carry around in public in order to drown them out with the noise; like diseases that are treated superficially and foolishly, they just withdraw and after a short interval break out again all the more terribly; and gather inside us and are life, are life that is unlived, rejected, lost, life that we can die of.” OrderDiesLostBreakSadnessDangerousDiseaseTreatedNoiseRejectedUnhealthyIntervalsBreak Out Book:Letters to a Young Poet Source: Letters to a Young Poet
“We had no choice. Sadness was a dangerous as panthers and bears. the wilderness needs your whole attention.” NeedsWholeChoicesAttentionSadnessDangerousBearsWildernessPrairiePanthers Author:Laura Ingalls Wilder
“I always want to tell these young idealists that the world is not as dangerous as many in the older generation want them to believe...The [people] for whom I feel the greatest sadness are the ones who choke on their beliefs, who never act on their ideals, who never know the state of struggle in a decent cause, and never know the thrill of even partial victories.” PeopleKnowsWorldWantFeelsBelieveStatesYoungBeliefCausesStruggleGenerationsSadnessDangerousVictoryIdealsDecentThrillChokeIdealistOlder Generation Author:Jonathan Kozol
“Oh, September! It is so soon for you to lose your friends to good work and strange loves and high ambitions. The sadness of that is too grown-up for you. Like whiskey and voting, it is a dangerous and heady business, as heavy as years. If I could keep your little tribe together forever, I would. I do so want to be generous. But some stories sprout bright vines that tendril off beyond our sight, carrying the folk we love best with them, and if I knew how to accept that with grace, I would share the secret.” IfsWantYearsLittlesStoriesTogetherLosesSecretAcceptingForeverGraceSadnessShareDangerousStrangeAmbitionSightFolksHeavyGenerousIf I CouldVotingGood WorkSeptemberTribesWhiskeyVinesSproutsTogether ForeverHigh Ambition Author:Catherynne M. Valente
“The only sadnesses that are dangerous and unhealthy are the ones that we carry around in public in order to drown them out with the noise.” OrderSadnessDangerousNoiseUnhealthy Book:Letters to a Young Poet Source: Letters to a Young Poet
“Don't get hung up on a snag in the stream, my dear. Snags alone are not so dangerous-it's the debris that clings to them that makes the trouble. Pull yourself loose and go on.” TroubleSadnessDangerousGoes OnDearStreamsHungDebris Author:Anne Monroe
“We get more dangerous as we accumulate knowledge, and that's both a sadness and something to control, try to learn to live with, make terms with.” TryingTermSadnessDangerousSad Author:Lou Harrison
“Only those sadnesses are dangerous and bad which one carries about among people in order to drown them out.” PeopleOrderSadnessDangerousCarrieUnhappiness Author:Rainer Maria Rilke