“I watched them from the window, thy children at their play, And I thought of all my own dear friends, who were far, oh, far away, And childish loves, and childish cares, and a child's own buoyant gladness Came gushing back again to me with a soft and solemn sadness; And feelings frozen up full long, and thoughts of long ago, Seemed to be thawing at my heart with a warm and sudden flow.” HeartChildrenLongPlayFeelingsCareMy OwnSadnessMy HeartFlowWindowDearWarmFar AwayLong AgoFrozenSolemnBack AgainGladnessDear FriendThawing Book:Poems Source: Poems
“I am sick of this way of life. The weariness and sadness of old age make it intolerable. I have walked with death in hand, and death's own hand is warmer than my own. I don't wish to live any longer.” WayHandsAgeWishMy OwnSadnessAtheismSickOld AgeWeariness Author:W. Somerset Maugham
“I can't remember anything without a sadness so deep that it hardly becomes known to me, so deep that its tears leave me a spectator of my own stupidity.” I CanRememberMy OwnKnownSadnessTearsStupidityLeaving MeSpectators Author:John Lennon
“Nature is a mirror in which I am reflected, because by rescuing this land from sad devastation [through recreating it in photographs], I am in fact trying to save myself from my own inner sadness.” TryingFactsMy OwnSadnessLandMirrorsPhotographDevastation Author:Mario Giacomelli
“I try to think as little as possible, at least while working. I look at some of my early stories and can see the machination behind them, like a gear slowly moving. For example, sticking a dead father into the story to explain a character's sadness and bad decisions, or trying to impress myself with my own cleverness.” ThinkingTryingLooksLittlesCharacterStoriesMovingFatherMy OwnDecisionBehindsSadnessExampleImpressGearsClevernessBad DecisionDead Father Author:Mary J. Miller
“If I look at my own recordings, I think generally there is a focal point within the song and often it's the instrumental bridge or a guitar solo where we try to do something unexpected, something beautiful or weird, or beautiful because it is weird. And of course I fail half the time, but yes that is the goal, to create even a few seconds of bliss, or sadness. The electric guitar is a great instrument for doing this because it is capable of surprising you. There are so many different sounds available.” IfsThinkingTryingLooksDifferentBeautifulSongCoursesSoundGoalMy OwnHalfFailingSadnessCapableInstrumentsGuitarAvailableBridgesBlissUnexpectedSecondsSurprisingElectricSoloSomething BeautifulElectric GuitarFocal PointGuitar SolosSomething Unexpected Author:Dean Wareham
“My own work on depression demonstrated that men and women often have different symptoms, with males often becoming more irritable, angry, and aggressive when they are depressed, while women show the more inward symptoms such as sadness, helplessness, and hopelessness.” MenDifferentShowsMy OwnSadnessBecomingMen And WomenAngryMalesAggressiveInwardSymptomsHopelessnessHelplessnessBecoming More Author:Jed Diamond
“My own idea, for what it is worth, is that all sadness which is not either arising from the repentance of a concrete sin and hastening towards concrete amendment or restitution, or else arising from pity and hastening to active assistance, is simply bad; and I think we all sin by needlessly disobeying the apostolic injunction to 'rejoice' as much as by anything else. Humility, after the first shock, is a cheerful virtue.” ThinkingFirstsIdeasMy OwnSinVirtueSadnessHumilityOptimismActivePityShockRepentanceRejoiceAmendmentsConcreteAssistanceCheerfulApostolicRestitutionDisobeying Author:C. S. Lewis
“I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.” InspirationalChildrenIdeasMotivationalWould BeMy OwnHealingSadnessChildhoodParentingHealNo IdeaHealedMothering Author:Susie Bright
“I used to come here on my own sometimes... Id' stay down here for ages." Her voice was barely audible. "It's a good place for sadness.” SometimesAgeUsedVoiceMy OwnSadnessGood Place Author:Kevin Brooks
“He said, ‘The moment I began to love you was the moment when you saw your fiddle smashed on the ground, and you turned away from me and cried against your horse. Your sadness is one of the things that makes you beautiful to me. Don’t you see that? I understand it. It makes my own sadness less frightening.” SaidMomentsBeautifulMy OwnSawsSadnessLove YouHorseFrighteningCriedFiddle Book:Fire Source: Fire
“...I have so many dreams of my own, and I remember things from my childhood, from when I was a girl and a young woman, and I haven't forgotten a thing. So why did we think of Mom as a mom from the very beginning? She didn't have the opportunity to pursue her dreams, and all by herself, faced everything the era dealt her, poverty and sadness, and she couldn't do anything about her very bad lot in life other than suffer through it and get beyond it and live her life to the very best of her ability, giving her body and her heart to it completely. Why did I never give a thought to Mom's dreams?” ThinkingGivingHeartDreamBodyRememberYoungSufferingGirlOpportunityMy OwnAbilityPovertySadnessChildhoodHavensMomForgottenPursueErasYoung Women Author:Shin Kyung-sook
“Your sadness is one of the things that makes you beautiful to me. Don't you see that? I understand it. It makes my own sadness less frightening." (Brigan)” BeautifulMy OwnSadnessFrightening Author:Kristin Cashore
“Talk to me about sadness. I talk about it too much in my own head but I never mind others talking about it either; I occasionally feel like I tremendously need others to talk about it as well.” NeedsFeelsMindWellsMy OwnTalkingToo MuchSadnessTalk To Me Author:Anne Sexton
“In such sad circumstances I but see myself exalted by my own enemies, for in order to defeat some small works of mine they try to make the whole rational medicine and anatomy fall, as if I were myself these noble disciplines.” IfsTryingWholeOrderFallMy OwnEnemySadnessMinesHard WorkDisciplineCircumstancesMedicineDefeatNobleRationalSelf DisciplineExaltedAnatomy Author:Marcello Malpighi
“Blue moon you saw me standing alone Without a dream in my heart Without a love of my own.” HeartDreamMy OwnSawsSadnessMy HeartMoonStandingBluePopular SongStanding AloneBlue Moon Author:Lorenz Hart
“I know what it's like to have someone coming home who looks at you not in the way they used to in the old days, and I've seen my own face contorted with sadness and rage in the mirror.” KnowsWayLooksHomeFacesUsedMy OwnSadnessSadMirrorsRageComing HomeOld Days Author:Jane Birkin