He made a good salary but he did not flaunt it. He’d been raised in Chicago proper by a Lithuanian Jewish mother who had grown up in poverty, telling stories, often, of extending a chicken to its fullest capacity, so as soon as a restaurant served ...
I love those dark moments in Peanuts. I love that they're in there, that Charles Schulz put the sad lonely bits of himself into the comic. I love the silliness too, the dancing Snoopy strips. The little boy Rerun drawing "basement" comics about Tarza...
I am so unimaginably sorry for doing what I am going to do, but you see I have all these fears. The fears and doubts I have are so real, so are they really as childish and silly as you always say they are. Sometimes, I am sad and so bitterly lonely a...
Emotions, in my experience, aren't covered by single words. I don't believe in "sadness," "joy," or "regret." Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that it oversimplifies feeling. I'd like to have at my disposal complicated hybrid ...
The fear of death haunted me for a year. I cried whenever anyone dropped a glass or broke a picture. But even then that passed, I was left with a sadness that couldn't be rubbed off. It wasn't that something had happened. It was worse: I'd become awa...
It's an unfortunate word, 'depression', because the illness has nothing to do with feeling sad, sadness is on the human palette. Depression is a whole other beast. It's when your old personality has left town and been replaced by a block of cement wi...
How sad, he thought, that desire found new objects but did not abate, that when it came to longing there was no end.
When an eighty-five pound mammal licks your tears away, then tries to sit on your lap, it's hard to feel sad.
The sadness of death lies in the fact that it cannot be reversed. Cherish the world of the living whilst you have it, for you cannot visit there again.
What's most revolting is that one is really sad! No, it's better at home. Here at least one blames others for everything and excuses oneself.
Humanity's greatest achievement will come when the happiness of some will no longer be the sadness of others.
Other flowers came at the end of the summer, but by then the winter sadness had already dissipated, and the effect of the blooms was not the same.
But, here's a sad fact: perfect isn't meant to be. When you aim for perfect, you just wind up ruined.
My girlfriend is sad and quiet and keeps me up all night worrying about her.
Complaining about boring football is a little like complaining about the sad ending of King Lear: it misses the point somehow.
And of course she understood now why her body wanted to run whenever he appeared. It was a correct instinct, for there was nothing to be got from this but sadness.
The joy you bring us is so much greater than the sadness we feel about your illness.
There are times, Kruppe murmurs, when celibacy born of sad deprivation becomes a boon, nay, a source of great relief.
Wow. When he started looking back on the war with Kronos as the good old days--that was sad.
it is a sad truth in life that when someone has lost a loved one, friends sometimes avoid the person, just when the presence of friends is most needed.
Nobody is happy all the damn time. It doesn't work like that. But if you are more happy than sad then maybe you aren't barely existing
