Quotes of: Sad-thing Keyword

Every single iceberg filled me with feelings of sadness and wonder. Not thoughts of sadness and wonder, mind you, because thoughts require a thinker, and my head was a balloon, incapable of thoughts. I didn't think about Dad, I didn't think about you...

Where'd You Go, Bernadette

Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone; For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own. Sing, and the hills will answer; Sigh, it is lost on the air; The echoes bound to a joyful sound, But shri...

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

The Jinmoti of Bozlen Two kill the hereditary ritual assassins of the new Yearking's immediate family by drowning them in the tears of the Continental Empathaur in its Sadness Season.

Consider Phlebas

When you're sad, my Little Star, go out of doors. It's always better underneath the open sky.

A Countess Below Stairs

Yossarian was moved by such intense pity for his poverty that he wanted to smash his pale. sad, sickly face with his fist and knock him out of existence

Catch-22

I love you, baby girl. When you’re sad, I am too.

Daddy's Girl

what a sad pair we are," she said. "Surely we can manage a conversation on a topic other than our respective terrible evenings.

The Duke and I

This sadness wasn't a huge part of me--I wasn't remotely depressed--but still, it was like a stone I carried in my pocket. I always knew it was there. [p. 179]

Devotion: A Memoir

I am not angry or sad or happy to see you. I could not give a shit. You don't even ripple.

Dark Places

You are going to end up as one of those sad old men who poke around in rubbish bins.” “I’m going to end up in a hole in the ground... And so are you. So are we all.

Disgrace

Why do beautiful songs make you sad?' 'Because they aren't true.' 'Never?' 'Nothing is beautiful and true.

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

But flaming youth in all it's madness Keeps nothing of its heart concealed: It's loves and hates, its joys and sadness, Are babbled out and soon revealed.

Eugene Onegin

Remembering bred its own peculiar sorrow. It seemed so unfair: that time should render both sadness and happiness into a source of pain.

A Fine Balance

...all my life I prayed to a star – Later discovered it was Venus – I was praying to Aphrodite and wondering why she was sending me you -sad...

A Familiar Rain

A deep wound inside him began to heal. And he suddenly knew that being separated from this woman would only bring him a certain sadness.

A Future Spring

I looked at sky this morning and realized summer is almost gone which really made me sad because it doesn't seem as though its been here at all.

Go Ask Alice

When a person has lived generously and fought fiercely, she deserves more than sadness at the end.

Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise

She struggled with her sadness, but tried to conceal it, to divide it into smaller and smaller parts and scatter these in places she thought no one would find them.

Great House

Sadness doesn't equal weakness, sweetheart. If anything, it shows the love you have inside of you, and nothing stronger in this world exists.

The Goddess Inheritance

He carries stars in his pockets because he knows she fears the dark. Whenever sadness pays her a visit he paints galaxies on the back of her hands.

Growing Light

But despite the gloss and sparkle of the job (champagne breakfasts, gift bags from Bergdorf's) the hours were long and there was a hollowness at the heart of it that-I knew-made her sad.

The Goldfinch