Best sadness & would-be Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I think the world is like a great mirror, and reflects our lives just as we ourselves look upon it. Those who turn sad faces toward the world find only sadness reflected. But a smile is reflected in the same way, and cheers and brightens our hearts. You think there is no pleasure to be had in life. That is because you are heartsick and-and tired, as you say. With one sad story ended you are afraid to begin another-a sequel-feeling it would be equally sad. But why should it be? Isn't the joy or sorrow equally divided in life?”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of L. Frank Baum (Illustrated)

“I have met people that said when their friend was dying, they made them promise that their funeral would be a party without people sitting in silence and in sadness. They want to celebrate their life and the life they lived and I try to adhere to that more.”

People Want Trying Made Said Would Be Party Silence Sadness Dying Promise Mets Sitting Celebrate Funeral Sitting In Silence

Author:Andrew W.K.

“Without [diversion] we would be in a state of weariness, and this weariness would spur us on to seek a more solid means of escaping from it. But diversion amuses us, and leads us unconsciously to death.”

Mean States Would Be Death Sadness Escaping Spurs Weariness Diversion

Book:Pascal's Pensées

Source: Pascal's Pensées

“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

“I wasn't prepared for the fact that grief is so unpredictable. It wasn't just sadness, and it wasn't linear. Somehow I'd thought that the first days would be the worst and then it would get steadily better - like getting over the flu. That's not how it was.”

Firsts Facts Would Be Grief Sadness Worst Prepared Unpredictable Flu Linear

Author:Meghan O'Rourke

“Immortality: A toy which people cry for, And on their knees apply for, Dispute, contend and lie for, And if allowed Would be right proud Eternally to die for.”

People Ifs Would Be Lying Dies Literature Sadness Cry Proud Knees Immortality Toys Disputes

Book:The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

“I had often sought for the peace there is in Christ, but I could not seem to find the freedom I desired. A terrible sadness rested on my heart. I could not think of anything I had done to cause me to feel sad; but it seemed to me that I was not good enough to enter Heaven, that such a thing would be altogether too much for me to expect.”

Thinking Feels Heart Done Enough Seems Would Be Heaven Causes Christ Too Much Sadness My Heart Terrible Good Enough Not Good Enough

Author:Ellen G. White

“I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.”

Inspirational Children Ideas Motivational Would Be My Own Healing Sadness Childhood Parenting Heal No Idea Healed Mothering

Author:Susie Bright

“He was looking at me, jsut as I'd thought he would be, but like Bert's, his light was not what I expected. No pity, no sadness: nothing had changed. I realized all the times I'd felt people stare at me, their faces had been pictures, abstracts. None of them were mirrors, able to reflect back the expression I thought one I wore, the feelings only I felt.”

People Feelings Light Would Be Able Faces Felt Sadness Changed Expression Mirrors Expected I Realized Pity Staring

Author:Sarah Dessen

“There are moments when I wish I could roll back the clock and take all the sadness away, but I have a feeling that if I did, the joy would be gone as well. So I take the memories as they come, accepting them all, letting them guide me whenever I can.”

Ifs Wells I Can Moments Feelings Would Be Joy Wish Memories Accepting Gone Sadness Guides Clock Guide Me

Book:A Walk to Remember

Source: A Walk to Remember

“Life was dense, dark, ancient. They watched Dean, serious and insane at his raving wheel, with eyes of hawks. All had their hands outstretched. They had come down from the back mountains and higher places to hold forth their hands for something they thought civilization could offer, and they never dreamed the sadness and the poor broken delusion of it.”

Knows Way Hands Would Be Eye Dark Poor Sadness Serious Broken Higher Civilization Offers Mountain Ancient Insane Bridges Wheels Bombs Someday Delusion Cracks Stretching Dean Dense Hawks

Author:Jack Kerouac

“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")”

“It would be my greatest sadness to see Zionists (Jews) do to Palestinian Arabs much of what Nazis did to Jews.”

Would Be Sadness Jew Palestinian Nazi Palestine Zionist Zionism

Author:Albert Einstein

“They held me and told me everything would be fine, that sadness would rise from our bones and evaporate in sunlight the way morning fog burned off the river in summer. My mother rubbed the kites on my hands and arms and told me to think of my lungs as balloons. I just want to feel safe, I said.”

Thinking Way Want Feels Said Hands Would Be Mother Morning Sadness Arms Fine Safe Summer Rivers Bones Sunlight Burned Fog Lungs Balloons Kites

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

“O Jesus! Remember the sadness that Thou didst experience when, contemplating in the light of Thy divinity the predestination of those who would be saved by the merits of Thy sacred passion, thou didst see at the same time the great multitude of reprobates who would be damned for their sins, and Thou didst complain bitterly of those hopeless, lost, and unfortunate sinners.”

Light Would Be Remember Passion Jesus Lost Sin Sadness Sacred Complaining Saved Merit Divinity Sinner Hopeless Contemplating Unfortunate Multitudes Predestination

Author:Brigit of Kildare

“When the anger is intense, the person with Asperger's syndrome may be in a 'blind rage' and unable to see the signals indicating that it would be appropriate to stop. Feelings of anger can also be in response in situations where we would expect other emotions. I have noted that sadness may be expressed as anger.”

Source: The Complete Guide to Asperger's Syndrome

“Luke was a little boy in a growing body that felt pain and sadness and fear for his mum, and he always believed he would be safe with his dad.”

Littles Body Would Be Pain Felt Boys Growing Violence Sadness Dad Safe Mum Domestic Violence Always Believe Little Boys Luke Family Violence

Author:Rosie Batty

“There would be no sequel to the sadness”

Would Be Sadness Sequels

Author:Salvador Plascencia

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