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“ought we not, from time to time, open ourselves up to cosmic sadness? ... Give your sorrow all the space and shelter in yourself that is its due, for if everyone bears his grief honestly and courageously, the sorrow that now fills the world will abate. But if you do not clear a decent shelter for your sorrow, and instead reserve most of the space inside you for hatred and thoughts of revenge-from which new sorrows will be born for others-then sorrow will never cease in this world and will multiply.”

Ifs World Giving Born Space Grief Clear Sadness This World Bears Ought Sorrow Hatred Revenge Dues Honestly Cease Decent Cosmic Shelter Reserves

Author:Etty Hillesum

“That's a KORTAN DAHUK. That's the first alien we see in the film [Valerian]. That's another artist. The first one was Chinese, the one with the space station. This one is American. Personally, that's my favorite alien. I love him. I love his profile and his face. There is such a sweetness and almost a sadness in his face.”

Firsts Film Faces Artist Space Sadness My Favorite Aliens Chinese Stations Sweetness Profile I Love Him

Author:Luc Besson

“I would hate to think I'm promoting sadness as an aesthetic. But I grew up in not just a family but a town and a culture where sadness is something you're taught to feel shame about. You end up chronically desiring what can be a very sentimental idea of love and connection. A lot of my work has been about trying to make a space for sadness.”

Thinking Feels Trying Has Beens Ideas Ends Hate Culture Space Sadness Taught Grew Grew Up Connections Towns Shame Aesthetic Sentimental Promoting

Author:Mike Mills

“I don’t know what they are called, the spaces between seconds– but I think of you always in those intervals.”

“It was the in-between time, before day leaves and night comes, a time I’ve never been partial to because of the sadness that lingers in the space between going and coming.”

Night Space Sadness Space Between

Book:The Secret Life of Bees

Source: The Secret Life of Bees

“For a moment she'd wondered if the seal around her sockets were tight enough to allow the tears simply to go on and fill up the entire lens space and never dry. She could carry the sadness of the moment with her that way forever, see the world refracted through those tears, those specific tears, as if indices as yet unfound varied in important ways from cry to cry.”

Ifs World Way Important Enough Moments Space Forever Sadness Cry Tears Goes On Dry Lenses Seals

Book:The Crying of Lot 49

Source: The Crying of Lot 49

“She was experiencing the same odd happiness and odd sadness as then. The sadness meant: We are at the last station. The happiness meant: We are together. The sadness was form, the happiness content. Happiness filled the space of sadness.”

Together Lasts Form Space Sadness Filled Odd Stations Unbearable Lightness Of Being

Author:Milan Kundera

“Of all the miracles Po had seen in the time and space of its death, Po thought this--the absorption of another, the carrying of it--was the most bewildering and remarkable of all. Whenever Bundle separated again, Po was left with an ache of sadness that reminded the ghost of the body it had left behind.”

Body Left Space Behinds Sadness Miracle Ghost Remarkable Time And Space Ache Left Behind Bundles Absorption

Book:Liesl & Po

Source: Liesl & Po

“A sad spectacle. If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly. If they be not inhabited, what a waste of space.”

Ifs Space Sadness Waste Misery Folly Scope Waste Of Space

Author:Thomas Carlyle

“IT is reported of Margaret Fuller that she said she accepted the universe. "Gad, she'd better!" retorted Carlyle. Carlyle himself did not accept the universe in a very whole-hearted manner. Looking up at the midnight stars, he exclaimed: "A sad spectacle! If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly; if they be not inhabited, what a waste of space!"”

Ifs Said Whole Science Universe Stars Space Accepting Sadness Waste Misery Accepted Folly Midnight Scope Hearted Waste Of Space

Book:Accepting the universe

Source: Accepting the universe

“That's the thing I want to make clear about depression: It's got nothing at all to do with life. In the course of life, there is sadness and pain and sorrow, all of which, in their right time and season, are normal-unpleasant, but normal. Depression is an altogether different zone because it involves a complete absence: absence of affect, absence of feeling, absence of response, absence of interest. The pain you feel in the course of a major clinical depression is an attempt on nature's part (nature, after all, abhors a vacuum) to fill up the empty space.”

Source: Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America

“Always there's that space between what you feel and what you do, and in that gap, all human sadness lies.”

Feels Humans Lying Space Sadness Gaps Space Between

Author:George Rodrigue

“When you don't flow freely with life in the present moment, it usually means that you're holding on to a past moment. It can be regret, sadness, hurt, fear, guilt, blame, anger, resentment, or sometimes even a desire for revenge. Each one of these states comes from a space of unforgiveness, a refusal to let go and come into the present moment. Only in the present moment can you create your future.”

Mean Sometimes States Moments Past Desire Hurt Space Sadness Regret Letting Go Flow Blame Guilt Revenge Present Moment Our Future Resentment Your Future Holding On Refusal Anger Resentment

Author:Louise Hay

“Deep in the heart of the infinite darkness, a tiny blue marble is spinning through space. Born in the splendor of God's holy vision, and sliding away like a tear down his face.”

Heart Faces Born Space Vision Darkness Sadness Tears Holy Infinite Blue Tiny Spinning Marble Splendor

Author:Johnny Cash