Quotes About Tristeza

#1. I have always wanted to go to Trieste because it sounds like tristesse, which is a light-hearted word, even though in French it means sadness. In Spanish it is tristeza, which is heavier than French sadness, more of a groan than a whisper.

Deborah Levy

#2. Reading is a huge effort for many people, a bore for others, and, believe it or not, many people prefer watching TV.

Hugh Mackay

#3. During the Great Depression, the philosophy of grin-and-bear-it became a national coping mechanism.

Maureen Corrigan

#4. Who would recognize the unhappy if grief had no language?

Publilius Syrus

#5. Instead, so long as Kennedy lived and Khrushchev stayed in power, there was steady movement toward the relaxation of tension - the American University speech, the Limited Test Ban Treaty, the establishment of the "hotline" between the White House and the Kremlin.

Robert F. Kennedy

#6. There is still a popular fantasy, long since disproved by both psychoanalysis and science, and never believed by any poet or mystic, that it is possible to have a thought without a feeling. It isn't.

Jeanette Winterson

#7. We can let ourselves enjoy life. If we want something and can afford it, buy it. If we want to do something that is legal and harmless, do it. When we're actually involved with doing something that is recreational, don't find ways to feel bad. Let go and enjoy life.

Melody Beattie