Sadnesses Quotes

#1. If only it were possible for us to see farther than our knowledge reaches, and even a little beyond the outworks of our presentiment, perhaps we would bear our sadnesses with greater trust than we have in our joys.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#2. He was the kind of man people liked to entrust with their sadnesses.

Donna Tartt

#3. All the great sadnesses, great temptations, and great mistakes are almost always the result of being alone in life, without a prudent friend to advise us when we are troubled by something more serious than our normal everyday problems.

Jose Saramago

#4. Travel, leave everything, copy the birds. The home is one of civilization's sadnesses.

Gustave Flaubert

#5. [In the mines] Sometimes a man just walked over the edge [to his death] for no reason at all, or because he was unhappy and did not want to live anymore. You could never tell; there are many sadnesses in the heart of men who are far away from their countries.

Alexander McCall Smith

#6. Only those sadnesses are dangerous and bad which one carries about among people in order to drown them out.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#7. SADNESSES OF THE COVENANT: Sadness of God's love; Sadness of God's back [sic]; Favourite-child sadness; Sadness of b[ein]g sad in front of one's God; Sadness of the opposite of belief [sic]; What if? Sadness; Sadness of God alone in heaven; Sadness of a God who would need people to pray to Him ...

Jonathan Safran Foer

#8. Great joys make us love the world. Great sadnesses make us understand the world.

Kent Nerburn

#9. One of the great sadnesses of my life, as I take stock at middle age, is the sense that the adventure largely ended by the time I was twenty-five.

Jon Weisman

#10. That's one of the great sadnesses of any life - knowing what you know now and then remembering what you did not know then.

Michael Ondaatje

#11. Tess realized one of the great modern dating sadnesses: everyone is so used to the comforting glow of the computer screen that no one can go so far as to say "good morning" in public without being liquored up.

Amelia Gray

#12. We all build internal sea walls to keep at bay the sadnesses of life and the often overwhelming forces within our minds. In whatever way we do this
through love, work, family, faith, friends, denial, alcohol, drugs, or medication, we build these walls, stone by stone, over a lifetime.

Kay Redfield Jamison

#13. When we are high up, everything looks very small.
Our glories and our sadnesses cease to be important.
We have left whatever we won or lost down below.
From the top of a mountain you can see
how large the world is and how wide the horizon.

Paulo Coelho

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

Paulo Coelho

#15. One of my greatest sadnesses at the prospective break-up of the Union is that it will set English, Welsh and Northern Irish against Scots in a bitter division of the debts and resources of the whole of the U.K.

Rory Bremner

#16. Dorrigo glimpsed a complex mud of intimacies normally invisible to the world - the shared sleep, scents, sounds, the habits endearing and frustrating, the pleasures and sadnesses, small and large - the plain mortar that finally renders two as one. Her hair was pulled back

Richard Flanagan

#17. Thinking that it would console him, she took a piece of charcoal and erased the innumerable loves that he still owed her for, and she voluntarily brought up her own most solitary sadnesses so as not to leave him alone in his weeping.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#18. Everyone is small at night.

Cornelia Funke

#19. The best place to succeed is where you are with what you have. - Charles Schwab

Anonymous

#20. Beauty is an inner light that shines on the outside.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#21. Jerry: If you always want less, in words as well as things, you'll do well as a writer.

Judd Apatow

#22. Now back in those days, to become a rural mail carrier you had to be approved by congress.

Betty Hill

#23. If love and ambition should be in equal balance, and come to jostle with equal force, I make no doubt but that the last would win the prize.

Michel De Montaigne

#24. It's all right if you smell bad," Derrick says serenely. "You're still my favorite.

Elizabeth May

#25. Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.

Edna Ferber

#26. The reality of truth is not to be bought, to be sold, to be repeated; it cannot be caught in books. It has to be found from moment to moment, in the smile, in the tear, under the dead leaf, in the vagrant thought, in the fullness of love.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#27. Us and them" religion is poison to the soul, and it often takes a lifetime of humiliation to detoxify us from it. In the Christian tradition, those who are

Jonathan Martin

#28. I wanted to be that,
The one which was vast,
The one which laughed,
The one which surpassed,
Yes, which also collapsed.
True, it was abstract.
I wanted to be that.
I still, want to be that!

Jasleen Kaur Gumber

#29. Such things as anguish, woe, affliction, guilt, feelings of awfulness, and utter wretchedness, the bread and butter of Days of Yore and Russians, sadly have very little staying power in these lickety-split Modern Times.

Marisha Pessl