Quotes About Sad Souls

#1. I think the book you always like best is the one you're about to write.

Margaret Atwood

#2. It's a poem, of our love, that doesn't rhyme. A story, never meant to have, a happy end.

Khadija Rupa

#3. What's more, sports are not, of course, always designed strictly to minimize the number of games. Without remembering this, some aspects of sports scheduling would otherwise seem mysterious to a computer scientist.

Brian Christian

#4. Would he be happy? Joan hoped so. But somehow he seemed a man fated always to yearn after that which he could not have, to choose for himself the rockiest, most difficult path. She would pray for him, as for all the other sad and troubled souls who must travel roads alone.

Donna Woolfolk Cross

#5. Never while anything is left of me shall this ... camp be forgotten. It has fairly grown into me, not merely as memory pictures, but as part and parcel of mind and body alike.

John Muir

#6. So that the lover of myths, which are a compact of wonders, is by the same token a lover of wisdom.

Aristotle.

#7. Words, in their primary or immediate signification, stand for nothing but the ideas in the mind of him who uses them.

John Locke

#8. We thank Thee, O Father of all, for ... all the soul-help that sad souls understand.

Will Carleton

#9. As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

John Donne

#10. The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected.

Nicholas Sparks

#11. There are always a few sad souls who want to be king.

Neil T. Anderson

#12. But my world fell apart, and all they could do, the whole universe, was to silently move on.

Khadija Rupa

#13. The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Dante Alighieri

#14. [Language is] really a pretty amazing invention if you think about it. Here I have a very complicated, messy, confused idea in my head. I'm sitting here making grunting sounds and hopefully constructing a similar messy, confused idea in your head that bears some analogy to it.

Danny Hillis

#15. Religious life has to become an expression of the gifts of the person. (You don't) simply throw away your personality, your giftedness and leave everything at the gate and go in and expect to find Jesus.

Dolores Hart

#16. All writers pen sad stories to garner sympathy, writing is after all for the abandoned of the society: the ink-leech, spewing black blood and sucking innocent souls.

Aporva Kala

#17. Boys and girls in America have such a sad time together; sophistication demands that they submit to sex immediately without proper preliminary talk. Not courting talk - real straight talk about souls, for life is holy and every moment is precious.

Jack Kerouac

#18. Even fiction - perhaps especially fiction - has more truth in it than the author knows.

Marion Zimmer Bradley

#19. I loved all the boys with soft sad eyes, and lost souls.

Grace Coddington

#20. 'The Stooges' used to be ubiquitous, back in the '60s and '70s. They were on TV all the time, but they're not on so much anymore. Kids aren't getting the chance to watch them, not to mention the fact that kids don't really necessarily relate to black-and-white stuff.

Chris Diamantopoulos

#21. I quickly laugh at everything for fear of having to cry.

Pierre Beaumarchais

#22. I'm sorry for the anguished hearts that break with passion's strain, But I'm sorrier for the poor starved souls that never knew love's pain, Who hunger on through barren years not tasting joys they crave, For sadder far is such a lot than weeping o'er a grave.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

#23. If you're not gonna tell the truth, then why start talking?

Gene Wilder

#24. In the mind of a true snob there are certain limited criteria to denote the value of human existence. Jimmie's criteria were: home, hearth, wife, land. Those who possessed these had beatitude unchallengable. Other men had accidental, random life. Nothing better.

Thomas Keneally

#25. Suspected and Denounced enemy of the Republic, Aristocrat, one of a family of tyrants, one of a race proscribed, for that they had used their abolished privileges to the infamous oppression of the people. Charles Evremonde, called Darnay, in right of such proscription, absolutely Dead in Law.

Charles Dickens

#26. Mindfulness increases the awareness of the Nature of the Mind. If we learn to Control our Mind and Listen to our Souls we can consciously choose to be Joyful instead of sad, Peaceful and Loving, Alert and Relaxed.

Natasa Nuit Pantovic

#27. Quoting reminds me there are other people in the world besides only me. And other thoughts besides mine, and other ways of thinking.

Gregory Maguire

#28. Life is a long pilgrimage from fear to love.

Paulo Coelho