Quotes of: Sad-songs Keyword

Words are tears that have been written down. Tears are words that need to be shed. Without them, joy loses all its brilliance and sadness has no end.

Aleph

It's a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.

W. H. Auden

How sad. How frightening. To be filled with so much hate that you could not even rejoice in the healing of a child...How did anyone ever come to that point?

The Host

I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad.

It's Kind of a Funny Story

Have you ever gotten so sad that it actually feels GOOD to do something you know will make you even sadder?

I Can't Tell You

If she allowed herself to give in to the whole sadness of it, she'd never ever be able to operate like a normal person again.

On the Jellicoe Road

The voice had an extraordinary sadness. Pure from all body, pure from all passion, going out into the world, solitary, unanswered, breaking against rocks—so it sounded.

Jacob's Room

He sank to his knees, absolutely full of despair and sadness. For a long time, droplets of blood continued to fall into his lap.

Rapture

Sometimes, Anu, we have to take actions that make us sad because it's the right thing to do for the future.

Rebel Queen

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