Best sadness & shadow Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Be content to love, to dazzle in the light, If only for moments… And then be gone, With gladness in your heart, Before the creeping shadows Claim too much your sadness at leaving.”

Ifs Heart Moments Light Gone Too Much Sadness Shadow Claims Leaving Gladness Dazzle

Author:Scott Hastie

“To walk into Bill Olsen's poems is to enter a mind so weirdly curious, you can't be released to sadness, not yet: it's just too surprising. But this book-half microscope, half telescope-shadows grief, our shared and ordinary life where an old neighbor obsessively gathers twigs to wish back the tree, where the moon is regularly ‘sawn in half,’ where sprinklers give off ‘little wet speeches.’ What else? It's brilliantly instead and odd.”

Giving Mind Littles Book Wish Walks Grief Half Tree Sadness Moon Speech Ordinary Shadow Bills Neighbor Curious Odd Surprising Wet Ordinary Life Telescopes Microscopes Twigs

Author:Marianne Boruch

“Our mind is the canvas on which the artists lay their colour; their pigments are our emotions; their chiaroscuro the light of joy, the shadow of sadness. The masterpiece is of ourselves, as we are of the masterpiece.”

Mind Light Joy Artist Emotion Creativity Sadness Shadow Lays Colour Canvas Masterpiece Pigment Chiaroscuro

Book:The Illustrated Book of Tea

Source: The Illustrated Book of Tea

“Joy and grief are never far apart. In the same street the shutters of one house are closed, while the curtains of the next are brushed by shadow of the dance. A wedding-party returns from church, and a funeral winds to its door. The smiles and the sadness of life are the tragi-comedy of Shakespeare. Gladness and sighs brighten and dim the mirror he beholds.”

Joy Next House Church Party Grief Comedy Doors Sadness Streets Wind Return Shadow Mirrors Funeral Contrast Sigh Curtains Gladness Shutters Sadness Of Life Joy And Grief Wedding Party

Book:Pleasures of Literature

Source: Pleasures of Literature

“Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.”

Thinking Life Facts Suffering Literature Speak Grief Sadness Reflection Shadow Misery Endless Each Day Misers Live Each Day Grief Observed Keeping A Journal

Book:A Grief Observed

Source: A Grief Observed

“Every arrangement in life carried with it the sadness, the sentimental shadow, of its not being something else, but only itself.”

Sadness Shadow Arrangements Sentimental

Book:The Collected Stories of Lorrie Moore

Source: The Collected Stories of Lorrie Moore

“There are times in your life when, despite the steel weight of your memories and the sadness that seems to lie at your feet like a shadow, you suddenly and strangely feel perfectly okay.”

Feels Seems Lying Memories Sadness Feet Shadow Okay Weight Despite Steel

Book:The View from the Seventh Layer: Stories

Source: The View from the Seventh Layer: Stories

“Perhaps all our loves are merely hints and symbols; vagabond-language scrawled on gate-posts and paving-stones along the weary road that others have tramped before us; perhaps you and I are types and this sadness which sometimes falls between us springs from disappointment in our search, each straining through and beyond the other, snatching a glimpse now and then of the shadow which turns the corner always a pace or two ahead of us.”

“So you mustn't be frightened, dear Mr. Kappus, if a sadness rises in front of you, larger than any you have ever seen; if an anxiety - like light and cloud-shadows, moves over your hands and everything you do. You must realize that something is happening to you, that life has not forgotten you, that it holds you in the palm of its hand and will not let you fall.”

Ifs Hands Light Moving Faith Fall Fear Realizing Sadness Fronts Anxiety Happenings Shadow Forgotten Dear Clouds Frightened Palms

Author:Rainer Maria Rilke

“Here was one with an air of high nobility such as Aragorn at times revealed, less high perhaps, yet also less incalculable and remote: one of the Kings of Men born into a later time, but touched with the wisdom and sadness of the Eldar Race. He knew now why Beregond spoke his name with love. He was a captain that men would follow, that he would follow, even under the shadow of the black wings.”

Men Names Black Born Race Air Sadness Kings Shadow Wings Touched Spokes Captains Nobility Return Of The King Pippin Faramir

Book:The Lord of the Rings: One Volume

Source: The Lord of the Rings: One Volume

“Somewhere in him, a shadow turned mournfully over. You had to run with a night like this so the sadness could not hurt”

Running Night Hurt Sadness Shadow Over You

Book:Something Wicked This Way Comes

Source: Something Wicked This Way Comes

“I wonder from these thousand of "me's", which one am I? Listen to my cry, do not drown my voice I am completely filled with the thought of you. Don't lay broken glass on my path I will crush it into dust. I am nothing, just a mirror in the palm of your hand, reflecting your kindness, your sadness, your anger. If you were a blade of grass or a tiny flower I will pitch my tent in your shadow. Only your presence revives my withered heart. You are the candle that lights the whole world and I am an empty vessel for your light. Rumi - "Hidden Music”

“The past is as powerless to darken the present moment as is a shadow to reach up and drag down the form that casts it.”

Moments Past Form Sadness Sad Shadow Casts Present Moment Drag Powerless

Author:Guy Finley

“I want to be taken playfully, not seriously - not with a long British face, but with beautiful laughter. Your laughter, your playfulness is the recognition that you have understood me. Your seriousness shows that you have misunderstood me, you have missed it - because seriousness is nothing but sickness. It is another name of sadness; it is a shadow of death. And I am all for life. If it is needed for your laughter, your dance, even to reject me, then reject me - but don't reject the dance and the song and the life, because that is my teaching.”

Ifs Want Long Shows Beautiful Faces Song Names Taken Sadness Teaching Needed Laughter Understood Shadow British Recognition Sickness Rejects Misunderstood Seriousness Playfulness Shadow Of Death

Author:Rajneesh

“There is a sadness at the back of life which some people do not attempt to mitigate. Entirely aware of their own standing in the shadow, and yet alive to every tremor and gleam of existence, there they endure.”

People Existence Alive Sadness Shadow Standing Endure Gleam

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)

“Let the dream go. Are there not other dreams In vastness of clouds hid from thy sight That yet shall gild with beautiful gold gleams, And shoot the shadows through and through with light? What matters one lost vision of the night? Let the dream go!”

Matter Dream Light Beautiful Night Lost Vision Sadness Sad Shadow Gold Sight Clouds What Matters Vastness Gleam

Book:Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)

Source: Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)

“It's just hard to travel in the shadow of regret. In fact, it's so hard that I actually haven't left yet.”

Hard Facts Left Sadness Havens Regret Shadow

Author:Ani DiFranco

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