“I am an avid follower of the news, and sometimes you just can't take any more war, any more disasters, and you want to remind yourself there's beauty in the world. I wanted to show a more poetic side to my work. It was all about... a feeling of sadness, but in a cinematic kind of way. I find beauty in melancholy.” WorldWayWantKindWarSometimesShowsFeelingsWantedSidesSadnessNewsDisasterWorking ItPoeticMelancholyFollowersCinematicAvid Author:Alexander McQueen
“When I first went to places where people were suffering from war and persecution, I felt ashamed of my feelings of sadness. I could see more possibilities in my life.” PeopleFirstsWarFeelingsSufferingFeltSadnessPossibilityAshamedPersecution Author:Angelina Jolie
“Probably also due to the political situation getting just worse and more extreme, but also this distance and this sadness of this feeling that I gave up - that I surrendered, that I felt that I lost my small war. So the whole column is different than the columns that I used to write back home, back in Jerusalem.” WritingDifferentWarWholeFeelingsHomePoliticalUsedLostFeltSituationSadnessDistanceExtremesDuesGave UpColumnsBack HomeJerusalem Author:Sayed Kashua
“The Z’s will kill us all, and then the Z’s will die out and in sixty years there will be no one to remember our silly war, Caroline’s wasted ammunition, my year of zombic survivalism, Rene DesCartes’s musings, or Michelangelo’s sculptures. And that is really only the sadness here as I drink a thousand-dollar bottle of wine down here in the cellar: We did a few things worth remembering, and I wish for someone to remember them.” YearsWarRememberDiesWishSadnessDrinkThousandWineDollarsSillyBottlesSixtySculptureCellarsMusingsAmmunitionBottles Of Wine Author:John Green
“Maybe I've just read too many novels. In novels, alcoholics are always attractive and fuuny and charming and complex, like Sebastian Flyte or ABe North in Tender in the Night, and they're drinking because of a deep, unquenchable sadness of the soul, or the terrible legacy of the First World War, whereas I just get drunk because I'm thirsty, and I like the taste of lager.” WorldFirstsWarSoulNightNovelSadnessTerribleTasteDrinkingComplexesDrunkLegacyAttractiveWar Of The WorldsCharmingAlcoholicsThirstyFirst World WarAbeLager Author:David Nicholls
“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.” WritingWarStoriesWantedSawsMagicSadnessSkyGardenHatsRabbitsLiftingAppearingBalloons Book:Light Boxes: A Novel Source: Light Boxes: A Novel
“I see the President almost every day. I see very plainly Abraham Lincoln's dark brown face with its deep-cut lines, the eyes always to me with a deep latent sadness in the expression. None of the artists or pictures has caught the deep, though subtle and indirect expression of this man's face. There is something else there. One of the great portrait painters of two or three centuries ago is needed.” MenTwoWarEyeFacesArtistThreePresidentLinesDarkCuttingSadnessCenturyExpressionNeededCaughtPainterCivil WarBrownSubtlePortraitsAbrahamLatentIndirect Author:Walt Whitman
“I’m glad to be part of the war on sadness. I’m a part time employee of the illusion that keeps people stupid.” PeopleWarSadnessStupidIllusionGladEmployeePart Time Author:Marc Maron
“Nothing fills me with deeper sadness than to see a Southerner apologizing for the defense we made of our inheritance.” MadeWarSadnessDeeperDefenseCivil WarApologizingInheritanceSoutherner Author:Jefferson Davis
“No man's advice can change you unless you speak to yourself. Bible school or seminars can't change you, going to church can't change you except you decide to change. Psalm 139:23 - 24” PeopleMenWorldMindHeartChildrenArtWarSoulDreamRealityMotivationalChristianPainSpiritualInspirational QuotesJoyPurposeMotivationTimeHumanityPassionReadingLiteraturePoliticsBeliefPeaceWomenLife QuotesNatureChangeFriendshipImaginationLeadershipWorkFreedomPrayerLossMotivational QuotesLove QuotesMoneyGriefBusinessFictionBeautyMusicFamilyMarriageChristianityCreativityDestinyHistoryPowerCourageFantasyPsychologyMeditationRelationshipDreamsSadnessSocietyFeminismStrengthSelf HelpPositive ThinkingHumourTrustLife PhilosophyFriendsFutureWisdom QuotesDepressionLivingLife And LivingSelf ImprovementForgivenessQuoteWordsEarningMagic SpiritIntelligence Is AttractiveFood For Though Book:Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder Source: Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
“This life is ironic: for it takes pain to discover pleasure; it takes sadness to know happiness; it takes war to value peace; and it takes hatred to treasure love. [Culled from: "Amara & The Strange Elderly Woman"]” LoveLifeWarPainHappinessPeacePleasureSadnessHatredIrony Author:Emmanuel Aghado