Quotes of: Sad-songs Keyword

It's not just a revue where one song is done, then another. There are concepts and ideas at work.

Hal David

I always thought the women of song don't get along, and I don't know why that is.

Joni Mitchell

The emotion at the point of technical breakthrough is better than wine, women and song put together.

Richard Hamming

On a whitely cloudy day I get sad, almost afraid, And I begin to meditate about problems I make up.

The Collected Poems of Alberto Caeiro

Isn't it sad how some people's grip on their lives is so precarious that they'll embrace any preposterous delusion rather than face an occasional bleak truth?

The Complete Calvin and Hobbes

I wonder if anybody else feels this way, if anyone in here is as scared as I am. Are they as sad and angry and confused and ashamed? Is that even possible? Is it even possible for one building to hold all that pain?

Clean

PERMALINK · 169465 · 15 HOURS AGO "She tried to feel sad, or guilty, or even to be angry about the way things had happened, but there frankly wasn’t much room in either her head or her heart for wishing or moping.

Deeper

He didn't understand how sadness came so easily to people. For him it was like a pile of rocks that had to be moved one at a time. Just thinking about it made him tired.

The Dissident

She let out a laugh, and then she put her hand over her mouth, like she was angry at herself for forgetting her sadness.

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

It doesn't think anything we don't want it to think.' 'That's sad,' said Montag, quietly, 'because all we put into it is hunting and finding and killing. What a shame if that's all it can ever know.

Fahrenheit 451

Maybe I naively subscribed to the foolish notion that my love could save him. Whatever the reason, I entered the room and sank to the carpet beside that sad and broken boy.

Find You in the Dark

Of course. Silly me. Such a sad, exciting score, which no doubt you can play? So many accomplishments, Mr. Grey.” “And the greatest one is you, Miss Steele.

Fifty Shades of Grey

It's easy to look back and see it, and it's easy to give the advice. But the sad fact is, most people don't look beneath the surface until it's too late.

Flipped

It is always sad to leave a place to which one knows one will never return. Such are the melancolies du voyage: perhaps they are one of the most rewarding things about traveling.

Flaubert in Egypt: A Sensibility on Tour

His face looked almost as gray as his suit, and the pouches beneath his eyes looked like little bags for holding all the sadness that his head couldn't hold.

The Grooming of Alice

I felt a wave of longing roll out of me, but not the way it usually did, diffuse and sad. This was hopeful, as though it had been coaxed out by a whispered promise.

Ghost Flower

Even a fool recognizes that there is great sadness in a bucket of tears. But only a wise man thinks to conserve water and use that bucket to wash his car.

Great Listener Series Mute Women

In the world of the Machiguenga, sadness could be equated with anger, and anger was a perilous emotion, by which a foreigner could lose his life.

House of the Tiger King: The Quest for a Lost City

A woman who lives with the stress of an overwhelmed schedule will often ache with the sadness of an underwhelmed soul.

The Best Yes: Making Wise Decisions in the Midst of Endless Demands

I never saw sad men who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue We prisoners called the sky, And at every happy cloud that passed In such strange freedom by.

The Ballad Of Reading Gaol

So you mean to tell me you won't fuck anyone you don't share some kind of deep emotional connection with? What a sad, depressing, truly horrible life you must lead...

Bar Nights