“I have an extremely difficult time wrapping my head around such a tragic event as the Elementary school massacre in Connecticut and unbelievable sadness for the parents, families and co-workers effected by this tragedy. We are ALL touched by this either directly or indirectly.... May hearts be comforted at such a devastating time. The world is with you.... I know I am.” KnowsWorldHeartMaySchoolParentDifficultSadnessEventsTragedyWorkersTouchedTragicUnbelievableDifficult TimesMassacresElementary SchoolWrappingCo WorkerConnecticutTragic Events Author:Pamela Moore
“Mental health is such a complex thing and so difficult to diagnose. What is a mental problem? Who does have mental problems? What's the difference between mental problems and depression and sadness?” DoeProblemDifficultDifferencesSadnessMental HealthComplexes Author:Tom Sturridge
“Some of the most unhappy artists in the most difficult situations can create awe-inspiring works of art.” ArtArtistDifficultSituationSadnessUnhappyAweWorks Of ArtDifficult SituationsAwe Inspiring Author:Eric Gibbons
“Sadness came into the world with Satan - that world our Saviour never prayed for, the world you say I do not know. Oh, it is not so difficult to recognize: it is the world that prefers cold to warmth! What can God find to say to those who, of their own free will, of their own weight incline towards sadness and turn instinctively towards the night?” KnowsWorldNightTurnsDifficultSadnessColdWeightSatanFree WillWarmthSaviourIncline Author:Georges Bernanos
“Writing directly from a feeling of anger or sadness is difficult, but if you distract part of your brain with word games, the ignored emotion often tiptoes in.” IfsWritingFeelingsGamesDifficultEmotionBrainSadnessIgnoredTiptoes Author:Matthea Harvey
“I think poetry can be a kind of secular way in which people can be led to approach the difficult parts of their life, where there's been loss, where there's sadness of a deep kind. If poetry can help people to be more at ease in expressing even to themselves a lot of the darkness and pain of ordinary human existence, then it's serving some kind of cultural role, perhaps more than a cultural role, perhaps it is serving something of a spiritual role.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayHumansKindHelpingPainSpiritualDifficultLossExistenceRolesDarknessSadnessApproachOrdinaryEaseServingSecularHuman Existence Author:Kevin Hart
“It's so easy to write songs about misery and hard times and sadness. It's much more difficult to write songs about happy and chirpy stuff.” WritingHardSongEasyStuffDifficultSadnessMiseryHard Times Author:Elton John
“Prayer and encouraging words change things. We're all human. We all go through stuff. The hardest part about being a celebrity is having to heal on a public stage. That's the worst. Imagine going through a scandal, or a divorce, or a death in the family, and running into fans on the street. Because of where my heart is, my instinct is to put my sadness aside, and give them a smile or a hug, no matter how bad I'm feeling. And the appreciation of fans can refuel your spiritual tank in those situations. But until you're famous, people don't realize how difficult that is.” PeopleGivingHeartFeelingsRunningSpiritualDifficultRealizingPrayerSituationImagineSadnessWorstMy HeartInstinctAppreciationDivorceHealHug Author:Al B. Sure!
“I think most artists create out of despair. The very nature of creation is not a performing glory on the outside, it's a painful, difficult search within.” ThinkingArtPainArtistSufferingDifficultSadnessCreationSadDespairGloryPainfulPerforming Author:Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
“My father's death, my move, and my frightening and difficult delivery created a tremendous amount of stress, pain, and sadness for me. I was practically devastated beyond recovery.” PainMovingFatherDifficultSadnessAmountStressRecoveryFrighteningStressedDeliveryDevastated Author:Brooke Shields
“Our true friends are those who are with us when the good things happen. They cheer us on and are pleased by our triumphs. False friends only appear at difficult times, with their sad, supportive faces, when, in fact, our suffering is serving to console them for their miserable lives.” LifeFactsHappensFacesSufferingDifficultSadnessGood ThingsThings HappenMiserableTriumphHard TimesServingCheerSupportiveDifficult TimesTrue FriendConsoleMiserable LifeZahirFalse Friends Author:Paulo Coelho
“Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral obligation.” KnowsImportantBeautifulJoyDifficultMoralSadnessDiscoveryEmbraceObligationMoral Obligation Author:Andre Gide
“My life has been like all the lives, long and hard and full of sadness and confusion and horror, a frightening, difficult dream punctuated by brief moments of joy. And as is the case with all people's lives, the moments of joy are never often enough and never long enough.” PeopleLongHas BeensHardEnoughMomentsDreamJoyDifficultCasesSadnessHorrorConfusionFrighteningLong LifeBrief Moments Book:The Final Testament Source: The Final Testament
“We all build internal sea walls to keep at bay the sadnesses of life and the often overwhelming forces within our minds. In whatever way we do this—through love, work, family, faith, friends, denial, alcohol, drugs, or medication—we build these walls, stone by stone, over a lifetime. One of the most difficult problems is to construct these barriers of such a height and strength that one has a true harbor, a sanctuary away from crippling turmoil and pain, but yet low enough, and permeable enough, to let in fresh seawater that will fend off the inevitable inclination toward brackishness.” WayMindEnoughProblemPainForceDifficultSeaSadnessWallDrugLowsStonesLifetimeAlcoholInevitableDenialHeightInternalsBarriersOverwhelmingConstructsInclinationHarborsSanctuaryTurmoilMedicationSadness Of LifeDifficult ProblemsWork FamilyOverwhelming Force Author:Kay Redfield Jamison
“It’s so difficult to describe [depression] to someone who’s never been there, because it’s not sadness. I know sadness. Sadness is to cry and to feel. But it’s that cold absence of feeling — that really hollowed-out feeling.” KnowsFeelsFeelingsDifficultSadnessCryColdAbsenceMost Heartfelt Author:J. K. Rowling
“Christ walked the path every mortal is called to walk so that he would know how to succor and strengthen us in our most difficult times. He knows the deepest and most personal burdens we carry. He knows the most public and poignant pains we bear. He descended below al such grief in order that he might lift us above it. There is no anguish or sorrow or sadness in life that he has not suffered in our behalf and borne away upon his own valiant and compassionate shoulders.” KnowsMightPainOrderDifficultChristWalksGriefKnow HowPathSadnessBearsSorrowBurdenShouldersMortalsLiftsAlsCompassionateAnguishBehalfDifficult TimesPoignantValiantLds Author:Jeffrey R. Holland
“This is my wish for you: Comfort on difficult days, smiles when sadness intrudes, rainbows to follow the clouds, laughter to kiss your lips, sunsets to warm your heart, hugs when spirits sag, beauty for your eyes to see, friendships to brighten your being, faith so that you can believe, confidence for when you doubt, courage to know yourself, patience to accept the truth, Love to complete your life.” KnowsBelieveHeartEyeSpiritWishDifficultAcceptingDoubtSadnessConfidenceComfortKissingLaughterPatienceSmileLipsCloudsWarmSunsetInspirational LoveHugRainbowKnow YourselfTruth LoveMy WishKeep SmilingAccepting The TruthDifficult DaysMy Wish For You Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson
“This year is very difficult for me to run after I after I lose my fiancee. I'm not preparing very well. I have sadness in my heart.” YearsWellsHeartRunningDifficultLosesSadnessMy HeartPreparingFiancee Author:Kenenisa Bekele
“You might find it difficult to see anything but your own sadness, the way smoke can cover a landscape so that all anyone can see is black. You may find that if someone pours water all over you, you are damp and distracted, but not cured of your sadness, the way a fire department can douse a fire but never recover what has been burnt down.” IfsWayMayHas BeensMightDifficultBlackWaterFireSadnessSadSmokeLandscapeDepartmentOver YouDistractedDampFire Department Author:Daniel Handler
“There is no true joy and compassion except through the difficult emotions - all we get without the experience of fear, anger, and sadness are cheap imitations of joy and compassion - pleasantness and sentimentality.” JoyDifficultEmotionCompassionSadnessImitationSentimentalityTrue Joy Author:Gabrielle Roth
“Fossey, Fossey, you cranky difficult strong-arming self-destructive misanthrope, mediocre scientist, deceiver of earnest college students, probable cause of more deaths of the gorillas than if you had never set foot in Rwanda, Fossey, you pain-in-the-ass saint, I do not believe in prayers or souls, but I will pray for your soul, I will remember you for all of my days, in gratitude for that moment by the graves when all I felt was the pure, cleansing sadness of returning home and finding nothing but ghosts.” IfsBelieveSoulSelfMomentsHomePainRememberStrongFeltCausesDifficultPrayerSadnessFeetStudentsCollegePrayingGratitudePureFindingsScientistSaintGravesGhostAssYour SoulDestructiveThat MomentMediocreEarnestRemember YouRemembers YouCleansingSelf DestructiveGorillasCollege StudentsRwandaDeceiverCrankyMisanthropePraying For YouReturning HomeProbable CauseI Will Remember You Author:Robert M. Sapolsky
“It is a sadness of growing older that some of us lose our ardent appreciation of what is new and different and difficult.” DifferentDifficultLosesGrowingSadnessAgingAppreciationGrowing OldArdentGrowing Older Author:Elizabeth Aston