Quotes of: Sad-fact Keyword

means you feel the pulse of other people's pain as well as your own, and saying it means you take a share of it. And so it binds us together, makes us trodden and sodden as one another. is a lot of things. It's a hole refilled. A debt repaid. is the ...

Jasper Jones

When we are rich and famous and powerful, we do not want to die. On the other hand, if we are miserable and suffering, we want to die and leave it all. But can joy or misery last forever? There is a saying, "All celebrations must end sometime." Any w...

Lieh-tzu: A Taoist Guide to Practical Living

A lot of things are inherent in life -change, birth, death, aging, illness, accidents, calamities, and losses of all kinds- but these events don't have to be the cause of ongoing suffering. Yes, these events cause grief and sadness, but grief and sad...

What about Now?: Reminders for Being in the Moment

Leaning into the afternoons I cast my sad nets towards your oceanic eyes. There in the highest blaze my solitude lengthens and flames, its arms turning like a drowning man's. I send out red signals across your absent eyes that smell like the sea or t...

Pablo Neruda

I believe that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension that we find paralyzing because we no longer hear our surprised feelings living. Because we are alone with the alien thing that has entered into our self; because everything intimate and ...

Rainer Maria Rilke

Ralph: Hey, sun came out again. P.L. Travers: You say it as if you're surprised, as if the sun were particular about for whom it appears. It seems you think I am responsible for its miraculous dawning every day. For heaven's sake, it's California. Ra...

Saving Mr. Banks

Life is tragic simply because the earth turns, and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time. Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all t...

The Fire Next Time

Memorization has gotten a bad rap recently. Lots of students, and even some educators, say that being able to reason is more important than knowing facts; and besides, why bother committing things to memory when you've got Google? My response to this...

The Secrets of Top Students: Tips, Tools, and Techniques for Acing High School and College

I’ve long believed that for an award to gain prestige, all it takes is having one famous person win it—even if that one person doesn’t know about the award or the fact that they’ve won it. That’s why last year’s “Albatross Harbor’s Ma...

A Story That Talks about Talking Is Like Chatter to Chattering Teeth, and Every Set of Dentures Can Attest to the Fact That No..

Melancholy held me hostage, and the bees built a hive of sadness in my soul.

Chains

Streets paved with opal sadness, Lead me counterclockwise, to pockets of joy, And jazz.

Cranial Guitar: Selected Poems

Shadowed beneath his brow bone were cold dark eyes containing secrets and sadness, bitterness and grief.

The Devil's Graveyards

She was a prism through with sadness could be divided into its infinite spectrum

Everything Is Illuminated

When people say they are happy for you it may mean they are sad for themselves.

The Fireman's Fair

We sat like that for a long while, and when we stood up, all my sad things were in boxes, and Beck was my father.

Forever

Try to always remember… In all times, Happy or Sad GOD Is GOOD

Hearts for Haiti: Book of Poetry & Inspiration

A house without books must be sad. Even sadder a house of books without people.

Books Burn Badly

The trouble with a great sadness is that it doesn't fit inside your body.

Books Burn Badly

A nation forgetting its own laughter is in a sad state of affairs

Boulder Blues: A Tale of the Colorado Counterculture

Things are not as they seem. You do not understand. There is no escape. This is all there is.” I had never seen eyes filled with so much sadness.

The Beacon

The great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad, For all their wars are merry, and all their songs are sad.

The Ballad of the White Horse