214 quotes found
“How little our careers express what lies in us, and yet how much time they take up. It's sad, really.”
“Tell the truth through whichever veil comes to hand but tell it. Resign yourself to the lifelong sadness that comes from never being satisfied.”
“What a sad story, I thought for so long. Not that I now think it was happy. But I think it is true, and thus the question of whether it is sad or happy has no meaning whatever.”
“Sometimes you weren't supposed to share pain. Sometimes it was best just to deal with it alone.”
“Are you sad?" Nicola asked. Richard turned in the chair. The scissors became motionless."Yes. I am sad. I'm sad most of the time.""Does it bother you?""It never used to. But now it does. Very much....”
“She knew that there were all kinds of ways to make a conquest and that one of the surest roads to a woman's genitals was through her sadness.”
“Trust can be broken in just a few seconds, but it takes years to heal”
“What you must understand about me is that Im a deeply unhappy person.”
“Percy, let me go" she croaked. "You can't pull me up."His face was white with effort. She could see in his eyes that he knew it was hopeless."Never," he said. He looked up at Nico, fifteen feet abo...”
“Nothing thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy.”
“When you've suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling.”
“Sometimes we get sad about things and we don't like to tell other people that we are sad about them. We like to keep it a secret. Or sometimes, we are sad but we really don't know why we are sad, s...”
“The way sadness works is one of the strange riddles of the world. If you are stricken with a great sadness, you may feel as if you have been set aflame, not only because of the enormous pain, but a...”
“You can't keep the birds of sadness from flying over your head, but you can keep them from nesting in your hair.”
“The sadness of the world has different ways of getting to people, but it seems to succeed almost every time.”
“I have been smashed and put back together so many times nothing works right. Nothing is where it should be, heavy thumping in my shoulder where my heart now beats.”
“It's OK not to be OK.”
“Sad people have the gift of time, while the world dizzies everyone else; they remain stagnant, their bodies refusing to follow pace with the universe. With these kind of people everything aches for...”
“Sadness does not last forever when we walk in the direction of that which we always desired.”
“She's known sadness. That's what it is. I only just thought that as I wrote it. She's known sadness, and it has made her kind.”
