Soren Kierkegaard
Philosopher, Theologian
"Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are."
Being Sad quotes
Being Sad
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Carl Jung
Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst
"Wholeness is not achieved by cutting off a portion of one’s being, but by integration of the contraries."
Anais Nin
Writer, Diarist
"Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it."
Mahatma Gandhi
Political Leader
"Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being."
Victor Hugo
Novelist, Poet
"Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad."
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"But listen to me. For one moment quit being sad. Hear blessings dropping their blossoms around you."
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"Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose."
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"It is quite gratifying to feel guilty if you haven't done anything wrong: how noble! Whereas it is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit guilt and to repent."
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"Being is the great explainer."
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"It's sad when girls think they don't have anything going on except being pretty."
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"Singing about your sadness unburdens your soul. But the blues hollers shouted about more than being sad. They were also delivering messages in musical code. If the master was coming, you might sing a hidden warning to the other field hands . . . The blues could warn you what was coming. I could see the blues was about survival."
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"Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them."
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"Why do people spend their time being sad when they could be happy?"
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"The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read."
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"Melancholy is the happiness of being sad."
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"I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy."
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"Fashion is that thing that saved me from being sad."
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"One defeats a fanatic precisely by not being a fanatic oneself, but on the contrary by using one's intelligence."
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"As we have said, robust souls are sometimes almost, but not entirely, overthrown by strokes of misfortune....Despair has steps leading upward. From total depression we rise to despondency, from despondency to affliction, from affliction to melancholy. Melancholy is a twilight state in which suffering transmutes into a somber joy....Melancholy is the enjoyment of being sad."
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"We are addicted to being the way we are"
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