Best sadness & rocks Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Your wits can't thicken in that soft moist air, on those white springy roads, in those misty rushes and brown bogs, on those hillsides of granite rocks and magenta heather. You've no such colours in the sky, no such lure in the distances, no such sadness in the evenings. Oh the dreaming! the dreaming! the torturing, heart-scalding, never satisfying dreaming, dreaming, dreaming, dreaming!”

Source: George Bernard Shaw: The Collected Plays (Illustrated): 60 plays including Caesar and Cleopatra, Pygmalion, Saint Joan, The Apple Cart, Cymbeline, Androcles And The Lion, The Man Of Destiny, The Inca Of Perusalem and Macbeth Skit

“I could have spoken from Rhode Island where I have been staying ... But I felt that, in speaking from the house of Lincoln, of Jackson, and of Wilson, my words would better convey both the sadness I feel in the action I was compelled today to make and the firmness with which I intend to pursue this course until the orders of the federal court at Little Rock can be executed without unlawful interference." (On sending troops to enforce integration in Little Rock AR High School)”

“The music that I have always liked has always been more rooted in anger or sadness or alienation or any of those inspirational factors that drove rock'n'roll, gospel, and blues. I tend not to value a more pop aesthetic.”

Values Sadness Rocks Pops Factors Aesthetic Rock N Roll Rooted Alienation

Author:DJ Shadow

“I know that my job is to perform, it wouldn't be a very interesting show if I just came out one day and said, "I'm going to sit here in a ball and rock back and forth. And won't you join me for a half hour of sadness."”

Ifs Knows Said Shows Jobs Hours Interesting Half Sadness Rocks One Day Balls Very Interesting Back And Forth Half Hours

Author:Jon Stewart

“(His) sadness grew; it became a rock inside him, pulling him down. He carried the sadness everywhere, morning, noon, and night. It hurt to breathe.”

Night Hurt Morning Sadness Rocks Grew Breathe Pulling It Hurts Noon

Book:Bird Lake Moon

Source: Bird Lake Moon

“I had a thought, on the way home from the rock field, that the things we don't know about a person are the things that make them human, and it made me feel sad to think that, but sad in that reassuring way that some sadness has, a sadness that says welcome home in twelve different languages.”

Thinking Knows Way Feels Humans Persons Made Different Home Language Sadness Rocks Fields Welcome Coming Home Twelve Reassuring Way Home Different Languages Welcome Home

Book:A Complicated Kindness: A Novel

Source: A Complicated Kindness: A Novel

“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

“On a street of right and wrong in every inch of sadness, rocks and tanks go hand in hand with madness.”

Hands Sadness Streets Rocks Madness Inches Tanks Hand In Hand

Author:Elton John

“When you feel like you've had it up to here, and you're mad enough to scream, but you're sad enough to tear, that's rock bottom.”

Feels Enough Sadness Rocks Tears Like You Mad Bottom Scream

Author:Eminem

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