Quotes of: Sad-fact Keyword

She smells of her cooking and the perfume Eau d'Hadrien. My mother wore it, too. She used to cook, like Lili. Our house smelled of garlic and thyme instead of sadness.

Revolution

Maybe if the empty space inside her was filled with love there'd be no room for sad and dark things.

A Small Free Kiss in the Dark

Anyone who has actually been that sad can tell you that there's nothing beautiful or literary or mysterious about depression.

My Heart and Other Black Holes

The great pagan sadness of modern man is largely due to his premonition of ultimate disaster.

The Menace Of The Herd: Or, Procrustes At Large

There are beautiful things in the world and there are sad things and when they come together they make a star. The light is far away and the strangest part is that the light is inside you.

Mathilda Savitch

What if I just want to die?" "Then I will be sad and disappointed that you cheated yourself out of your chance at existence. Not all of us have that opportunity, you know, to choose life.

Never Eighteen

And in the background of Early's story was her voice. Her soul. Her sadness and longing. Because when it's raining, it's always Billie Holiday. p. 81

Navigating Early

In trying to escape the fatality of memory, he discovered with an immense sadness that pursuing the past inevitably only leads to greater loss.

The Narrow Road to the Deep North

I dare say there's many a woman makes as sad a mistake as I have done, and only finds it out too late.

North and South

I believe there is a kind of happiness to be found in every thing in life, in all that is good and pleasing, as well as in that which is sad or poignant.

The Lost Memoirs of Jane Austen

Thomas had never seen anything like her in his life, and he knew, with a beautiful sort of sadness, that he never would again.

The Life and Death of the Ericsons

Maybe this is the point: to embrace the core sadness of life without toppling headlong into it, or assuming it will define your days.

Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship

There was a sad fellow over on a bar stool talking to the bartender, who was polishing a glass and listening with that plastic smile people wear when they are trying not to scream.

The Long Goodbye

Everything in life has some good in it. And when something awful happens, the goodness stands out even more--it's sad, but that's the truth.

The Lake

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.

Life... Love... Kumbh...

Usually she ordered a cup of coffee and a cup of tea, as well as a brownie, propping up her sadness with chocolate and caffeine so that it became an anxiety.

Like Life

There's no way for them to take away my sadness, but they can make sure I am not empty of all the other feelings.

Love Is the Higher Law

Great griefs exhaust. They discourage us with life. The man into whom they enter feels something taken from him. In youth, their visit is sad; later on, it is ominous.

Les Misérables

If I am attempting to describe him, it is in order not to forget him. It is sad to forget a friend. Not every one has had a friend.

The Little Prince

But 'tis a sad thing that all one's happiness is only that the world does not know you are miserable.

Letters to Sir William Temple

There is nothing more pathetically sad than a parent who teaches a child not to hit by spanking them. Well, that, and adults who think hitting someone will solve a problem.

Saving a Fallen Mate