Quotes About Profound Sadness

#1. Lincoln had internalized the pain of those around him - the wounded soldiers, the captured prisoners, the defeated Southerners. Little wonder that he was overwhelmed at times by a profound sadness that even his own resilient temperament could not dispel.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#2. Profound sadness is always the result of an unhealthy condition of the body ... We [should] say, 'I am sad; everything looks black to me; but external events are in no way responsible. It's my body that insists on reasoning. These are the opinions of my stomach.'

Emile Chartier

#3. Men of profound sadness betray themselves when they are happy: they have a mode of seizing upon happiness as though they would choke and strangle it, out of jealousy
ah, they know only too well that it will flee from them!

Friedrich Nietzsche

#4. If you have a dog, you will most likely outlive it; to get a dog is to open yourself to profound joy and, prospectively, to equally profound sadness.

Marjorie Garber

#5. I'm happy, I would say that I'm one of the happiest people I know but I've certainly had periods of profound sadness, depression and heartache and those are the kind of things that are interesting to me to write about.

Richard Marx

#6. Cuba laments and expresses its profound sadness for the loss of so many innocent lives and expresses our absolute rejection of acts of terrorism, wherever they may come from.

Felipe Perez Roque

#7. There's a moment of profound sadness that can be dispelled only by summoning my anger.

Libba Bray

#8. Was a sadness so profound that the mind sought escape into fantasy?

Lorraine Heath

#9. There were two qualities about the mutual funds of the 1920s that made them extremely speculative. One was that they were heavily leveraged. Two, mutual funds were allowed to invest in other mutual funds.

Ron Chernow

#10. Greatness sympathises with greatness, and littleness shrinks into itself.

William Hazlitt

#11. Yes and no are very powerful words. Mean them when you say them. Respect them when you hear them.

Michael Josephson

#12. After all, it's the future of business communication that we're looking toward.

Jim Barksdale

#13. You can't force them [objectmemories] to flower either. Like bulbs, they show their secrets in their own time.

Anna Smaill

#14. The sadness which reigned everywhere was but an excuse for unfailing kindness.

Victor Hugo

#15. most of the times
it's the hardest
to say
what I love more

you

or

your memory.

Sanober Khan

#16. Today we bury his remains in the earth as a seed of immortality. Our hearts are full of sadness, yet at the same time of joyful hope and profound gratitude.

Pope Benedict XVI

#17. Grief can have a quality of profound healing because we are forced to a depth of feeling that is usually below the threshold of awareness.

Stephen Levine

#18. I'm a very private person. My life story isn't for everybody.

Barry Bonds

#19. Originally, I think, I wanted to be an actor. But I got into broadcasting by accident, if you will, because I needed money to pay for my college education. I applied for a summer announcing job at a couple of radio stations.

Alex Trebek

#20. Love cannot exist in peace, it will always come accompanied by agonies, ecstasies, intense joys and profound sadnesses.

Paulo Coelho

#21. Truth, which is permanent, eludes the historian of events. Truth transcends history.

Mahatma Gandhi

#22. Now my ability to notice things and respond to things and be here is far more profound. With that comes happiness, with it comes sadness, but it's a beautiful life.

Nicole Kidman

#23. Art is the indispensable medium for the communication of a moral ideal ...

Ayn Rand

#24. There was sadness in his eyes, a sadness so profound it was almost frightening.

Cassandra Clare

#25. For a moment I had a strange intuition that just this, and in a real, profound sense, is life; and perhaps happiness even - love with a mixture of sadness, reverence, and silent knowledge.

Erich Maria Remarque

#26. Increase the number of adventures you act on and you'll lighten the weight of regret.

Gina Greenlee

#27. The American Indian was an individualist in religion as in war. He had neither a national army nor an organized church.

Charles Eastman