Best sadness & saws Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“If happiness is a state of the inward life, we have to look for its chief obstructions not in outward conditions but in deeper places. Happiness depends in the last issue, as we saw, on the essential view of life. It is not a matter of distractions, nor even of mere pleasurable sensations. There may be an appearance of great prosperity with incurable sadness hidden at the heart, as there is an outward peace which is only a well-masked despair. The way to happiness is indeed harder than the way to success; for its chief enemies entrench themselves within the soul.”

Source: Happiness

“When I saw the sun bears at the Oakland Zoo, I immediately was drawn to them. Not to be ornery, but regarding what you said about the speaker identifying with the bear: I'm not sure it's exactly right to say that the speaker feels that the bear must share his sadness, or whatever else he is feeling. That would be classic pathetic fallacy, which is certainly generative for poetry, but here the speaker appears actually to be rejecting that idea.”

Feels Said Ideas Feelings Would Be Sun Saws Sadness Share Bears Classic Not Sure Speakers Pathetic Fallacy Zoos Identifying Rejecting Oakland Ornery

Author:Matthew Zapruder

“The thing that I hate is that Nicholas Kristof style of writing where it's like, "I saw the poor, they made me so sad. What can I do about sadness? I am so brave." It's just like, shut up, man, shut up.”

Men Writing Made Hate Poor Saws Sadness Style I Hate Brave Shut Up So Sad Nicholas Kristof

Author:Molly Crabapple

“My stepfather used to be a clown in The Shrine Circus. He took me backstage when I was 23. I saw three elephants chained to the cement floor in the warehouse of the Michigan State Fairgrounds. Sadness, hopelessness and fear were emanating from their eyes, from their bodies. They were swaying neurotically from side to side. A monkey was screaming in his cage, grabbing the bars of his prison. Two tigers were pacing feverishly in their tiny cages. Cruelty was staring me in the face. I knew something was wrong. If you pay attention to energy, you can tell when a fellow being is in peril.”

“Since the first human eye saw a leaf in Devonian sandstone and a puzzled finger reached to touch it, sadness has lain over the heart of man. By this tenuous thread of living protoplasm, stretching backward into time, we are linked forever to lost beaches whose sands have long since hardened into stone. The stars that caught our blind amphibian stare have shifted far or vanished in their courses, but still that naked, glistening thread winds onward. No one knows the secret of its beginning or its end. Its forms are phantoms. The thread alone is real; the thread is life.”

Source: The Firmament of Time: A Library of America eBook Classic

“And Isi always listened, never told Enna she had been foolish, never said hollow things like 'You'll be all right.' . . . Isi saw Enna's struggle and her sadness, and she understood.”

Said Struggle Saws Sadness Like You Understood Foolish Hollow

Author:Shannon Hale

“He had never liked October. Ever since he had first lay in the autumn leaves before his grandmother's house many years ago and heard the wind and saw the empty trees. It had made him cry, without a reason. And a little of that sadness returned each year to him. It always went away with spring. But, it was a little different tonight. There was a feeling of autumn coming to last a million years. There would be no spring. ("The October Game")”

“He wondered what the years had done to his face as he traced the effects on hers. Eyes the same blue-lit green, but where mischievous joy once danced, now he saw sadness, deep as the ocean. Her cheeks were thinner. There was something else too: the arrogant pride of a princess seemed to be extinct. Yet the indefinable, untamed quality of her spirit remained. Yes, it was Torina.”

Years Done Eye Faces Joy Spirit Quality Saws Sadness Effects Pride Ocean Blue Green Princess Arrogant Cheeks Lit Mischievous Indefinable Untamed

Author:Victoria Hanley

“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.”

Said Moments Beautiful My Own Saws Sadness Love You Horse Frightening Cried Fiddle

Book:Fire

Source: Fire

“I wanted to write you a story about magic. I wanted rabbits appearing from hats. I wanted balloons lifting you into the sky. It turned out to be nothing but sadness, war, heartbreak. You never saw it, but there’s a garden inside me.”

Writing War Stories Wanted Saws Magic Sadness Sky Garden Hats Rabbits Lifting Appearing Balloons

Book:Light Boxes: A Novel

Source: Light Boxes: A Novel

“She had a sadness that was so deep, but it still could turn to light in a second, and when I saw her smile I wondered what it would be like to make her smile. I thought... I thought it would be like the discovery of smiling.”

Stills Light Would Be Turns Saws Sadness Discovery Her Smile Make Her Smile

Author:Laini Taylor

“For reasons he couldn’t understand a sadness came over him and it was then he saw the girl standing on the other side of the dirt road, her eyes pools of absolute sorrow, her light brown hair glowing in the splinters of sunlight that forced their way through the trees.”

Way Reason Light Eye Girl Sides Saws Tree Sadness Hair Sorrow Standing Absolutes Brown Pool Sunlight Dirt Her Eyes Glowing Splinters Brown Hair Dirt Roads

Book:Jellicoe Road

Source: Jellicoe Road

“But I saw the pain and sadness in everything, and swirled it round my mouth like a fine wine.”

Pain Saws Sadness Fine Mouths Wine Rounds Fine Wine Like Fine Wine

Book:Your Voice in My Head

Source: Your Voice in My Head

“God, When I was alone, and had nothing, I asked for a friend to help me bear the pain, No one came, except God, When I needed a breath to rise, from my sleep, No one could help me.. except God, When all I saw was sadness, and I needed answers, No one heard me, except God, So when I'm asked.. who I give my unconditional love to? I look for no other name, except God”

Giving Looks Helping Pain Names Sleep Answers Saws Heard Sadness Bears Needed Breaths Help Me Unconditional Love Rapper Unconditional

Author:Tupac Shakur

“The many-voiced song of the river echoed softly. Siddhartha looked into the river and saw many pictures in the flowing water. The river's voice was sorrowful. It sang with yearning and sadness, flowing towards its goal ... Siddhartha was now listening intently...to this song of a thousand voices ... then the great song of a thousand voices consisted of one word: Om - Perfection ... From that hour Siddhartha ceased to fight against his destiny.”

Song Fighting Goal Voice Water Hours Destiny Saws Sadness Listening Thousand Rain Rivers Perfection Yearning One Word Sorrowful Siddhartha Flowing Water

Author:Hermann Hesse

“Blue moon you saw me standing alone Without a dream in my heart Without a love of my own.”

Heart Dream My Own Saws Sadness My Heart Moon Standing Blue Popular Song Standing Alone Blue Moon

Author:Lorenz Hart

“Gail had a baby named Ned who was four months old, and a new look of baffled hurt, a left-behind sadness, like she saw that the great world kept spinning onward and away while she'd overnight become glued to her spot.”

World Looks Left Hurt Behinds Saws Four Sadness Baby Months Spots Left Behind Spinning Baffled New Look Gail

Book:Winter's Bone

Source: Winter's Bone

“The world he saw was sadder than the one he hoped to find. But it wasn't near as lonesome as the one he left behind.”

World Left Behinds Saws Sadness Left Behind Lonesome

Author:Kris Kristofferson

“I was a product of a divorced family and I used humor as a weapon to combat sadness. I used comedy to make my mother laugh in light of the darkness that she faced, and to me it became a very powerful tool at a very young age, at six. I saw how therapeutic it could be.”

Light Age Young Used Mother Powerful Darkness Laughing Saws Comedy Sadness Products Six Weapons Tools Combat Divorced Young Age Very Powerful Therapeutic

Author:Josh Gad

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