Best sadness & sky Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I'd like to combine melancholy and sunshine... There's a sadness in Provence which no one has expressed... I'd like to put reason in the grass and tears in the sky, like Poussin.”

Reason Emotion Sadness Sky Tears Grass Sunshine Melancholy Provence

Author:Paul Cezanne

“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 would that we were, my beloved, white birds on the foam of the sea! We tire of the flame of the meteor, before it can fadeand flee; And the flame of the blue star of twilight, hung low on the rim of the sky, Has awaked in our hearts, my beloved, a sadness that may not die.”

Heart May Dies Stars White Sea Sadness Sky Lows Bird Blue Longing Beloved Flames Twilight Hung Tire Dissatisfaction Foam Rims Meteors White Birds

Book:Early Poems

Source: Early Poems

“I began to paint again, even though I could barely hold the brush, but knowing exactly what I wanted to paint, I began three more large canvases... of large wheat fields under cloudy skies, and it did not take a great deal to express sadness and loneliness... I believe these paintings say what words cannot.”

Believe Wanted Three I Believe Deals Knowing Sadness Sky Loneliness Fields Painting Paint Brushes Wheat Cloudy Wheat Fields Cloudy Skies Sadness And Loneliness

Author:Vincent Van Gogh

“I talk to God but the sky is empty.”

Source: Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams: and other prose writings

“She says nothing at all, but simply stares upward into the dark sky and watches, with sad eyes, the slow dance of the infinite stars.”

Eye Stars Dark Watches Sadness Sky Infinite Staring Dark Sky Sad Eyes

Book:Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess's Stardust: Being a Romance Within the Realms of Faerie

Source: Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess's Stardust: Being a Romance Within the Realms of Faerie

“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

“Sadness gives depth. Happiness gives height. Sadness gives roots. Happiness gives branches. Happiness is like a tree going into the sky, and sadness is like the roots going down into the womb of the earth. Both are needed, and the higher a tree goes, the deeper it goes, simultaneously. The bigger the tree, the bigger will be its roots. In fact, it is always in proportion. That's its balance.”

“You left ground and sky weeping, mind and soul full of grief. No one can take your place in existence, or in absence. Both mourn, the angels, the prophets, and this sadness I feel has taken from me the taste of language, so that I cannot say the flavor of my being apart.”

Feels Mind Soul Left Language Grief Existence Taken Sadness Sky Taste Angel Absence Prophet Flavor Weeping Mourn

Author:Rumi

“But the moon came slowly up in all her gentle glory, and the stars looked out, and through the small compass of the grated window, as through the narrow crevice of one good deed in a murky life of guilt, the face of Heaven shone bright and merciful. He raised his head; gazed upward at the quiet sky, which seemed to smile upon the earth in sadness, as if the night, more thoughtful than the day, looked down in sorrow on the sufferings and evil deeds of men; and felt its peace sink deep into his heart.”

Source: Barnaby Rudge, And, Hard Times: With Ten Illustrations

“We don't want to live in the dark moods of imponderable mystery, but neither do we want to miss them altogether. they allow us to emerge from the tender sadness of the manger to sing with the angels in the skies above.”

Want Inspiration Christian Dark Mystery Sadness Sky Missing Angel Mood

Book:Come Let Us Adore Him: Stories Behind the Most Cherished Christmas Hymns

Source: Come Let Us Adore Him: Stories Behind the Most Cherished Christmas Hymns

“Creating doesn't make us unhappy, unhappiness makes us creative. To create is to live, and in living, we want only to creat more, to set our foundations depper and reach higher toward the sky. If sadness is what makes us creative, then sadness is nothing else but life.”

Ifs Want Creative Sadness Sky Higher Creating Foundation Unhappy Unhappiness

Author:Eric G. Wilson

“I'm leaving my sorrows and all my memories behind to see what I find, somewhere in the shade near the sound of a sweet singing river, somewhere in the sun where the mountains make love to the sky.”

Life Inspirational Sound Nature Memories Behinds Sun Sadness Sky Sweet Sorrow Mountain Findings Singing Rivers Leaving Happy Shade Making Love Finding Happiness Riverside

Author:John Denver

“Even if death were to fall upon you today like lightning, you must be ready to die without sadness and regret, without any residue of clinging for what is left behind. Remaining in the recognition of the absolute view, you should leave this life like an eagle soaring up into the blue sky.”

Ifs Should Today Death Dies Fall Left Views Behinds Sadness Sky Ready Regret Absolutes Blue Recognition This Life Lightning Soar Left Behind Eagles Clinging Blue Sky Ready To Die

Author:Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

“You can never have too much sky . You can fall asleep and wake up drunk on sky, and sky can keep you safe when you are sad. Here there is too much sadness and not enough sky. Butterflies too are few and so are flowers and most things that are beautiful. Still, we take what we can get and make the best of it.”

Stills Enough Beautiful Fall Healing Too Much Sadness Sky Flower Safe Wake Up Drunk Butterfly Make The Best Of It

Author:Sandra Cisneros

“I won't cry cause I live to die, with my mind on my money and my guns in the sky.”

Mind Dies Causes Sadness Sky Cry Gun

Author:Ja Rule

“I'm all out o faith, this is how I feel. I'm cold and I am shamed lying naked on the floor. Illusions never change into something real. I'm wide awake and I can see the perfect sky is torn. You're a little late, I'm already torn.”

Feels Littles I Can Real Lying Perfect Sadness Sky Cold Late Illusion Wide Naked Awake Torn Never Change Something Real Wide Awake

Author:Natalie Imbruglia

“Let the rain falling on your face run into your eyes. Can you see the rainbow now through the stormy skies?”

Eye Running Faces Fall Sadness Sky Rain Your Face Rainbow Stormy Rain Falling

Author:Avril Lavigne

“Sky of blackness and sorrow, sky of love, sky of tears. Sky of glory and sadness, sky of mercy, sky of fear.”

Sadness Sky Tears Sorrow Glory Mercy Blackness

Author:Bruce Springsteen

“When the night wind starts to sing a lonesome lullaby, it helps to think we're sleeping underneath the same big sky.”

Thinking Helping Bigs Night Sleep Sadness Sky Wind Lonesome Lullaby

Author:Linda Ronstadt

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