- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sadness Quotes
Quiet, honest lines on carrying sadness.
This page gathers reflections on sadness in its quieter forms, from the bittersweet mix of excitement and loss felt leaving a familiar place to anxiety that traces back to something harder to name. It connects to Pain and Regret.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know a writer who doesn't feel some sense of glamour and magic and a complex, wistful sadness emanating from the expats of the twenties in France. Some of the sadness, of course, is that we weren't there.
- Inevitable
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is so friendly so simply friendly and though inevitable not a sadness and though occurring not a shock.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the spectrum linking everyday depression to Major Depression sometimes hinders understanding of it, it also offers an opportunity for empathy. Because almost everyone, at some point, experiences feelings of sadness, of hopelessness, of emptiness, not to mention lethargy and irritability.
- Nov 07, 2020
I want to paint something that's gorgeous, something that's perfect. So that it's full of sadness.
- Negative
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our bodies hold so much tension and resentment and sadness, so if we don't move it out of the body, we stay stuck in those negative patterns.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
As somebody who participates in the overall PC ecosystem, it's totally great when faster wireless networks and standards come out or when graphics get faster. Windows 8 was like this giant sadness. It just hurts everybody in the PC business.
- Focus
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- Nov 07, 2020
To do justice to a lifelong dream of being a writer, I must give it the intense concentration and focus I gave to track. To do both with excellence is not possible. It is with a sense of sadness and joyous anticipation that I leave track and move on.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can mourn internally, just be quiet about it. I have my moments but I'm not a real, expressive person, especially when it comes to like sadness.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
Deep down, I reckon the sweetest moment will come when it's finally all over. When, at last, I know that I can stop fighting. Of course it'll also be a little sad. The sweetest moments, y'know, always come with just a little sadness.
- Handed
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hoping they'd been inspired by the examples of Anne Frank and other teens who had turned negative experiences into something positive by writing about them, I handed out notebooks for my students to journal about their lives. There was some initial resistance. But then the stories poured out of them, full of anger and sadness.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sadness does not inhere in things; it does not reach us from the world and through mere contemplation of the world. It is a product of our own thought. We create it out of whole cloth.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sadness was something I was thinking about in my life outside of writing, so it wormed itself into whatever I wrote.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I write with humour about sadness, to introduce an element of sweet to the sour, a bit like Turkish food.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know whether there is anyone else at all who remembers my noble father with such sadness.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020