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Sad feeling
Sad Quotes — page 214 of 475
“No witchcraft, no enemy action had silenced the rebirth of new life in this stricken world. The people had done it themselves.”
“Perhaps one feels more pain when parents are there. It's like when you're hungry, you know, it's worse to get a symbol of a cheeseburger than no cheeseburger at all. It doesn't do you any good, you know.”
“Hell is full of good intentions and wills.”
“The damned are in the abyss of Hell, as within a woeful city, where they suffer unspeakable torments, in all their senses and members, because as they have employed all their senses and their members in sinning, so shall they suffer in each of them the punishment due to sin.”
“I read somewhere, one, that crying defies scientific explanation. Tears are only meant to lubricate the eyes. There is no real reason for tear glands to overproduce tears at the behest of emotion. I think we cry to release the animal parts of us without losing our humanity. Because inside of me is a beast that snarls, and growls, and strains toward freedom, toward Tobias, and, above all, towards life. And as hard as I try, I cannot kill it.”
“Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.”
“On average, since the urge to kill myself isn't so strong that I actually kill myself, the world is worth living in.”
“The only sadnesses that are dangerous and unhealthy are the ones that we carry around in public in order to drown them out with the noise.”
“All professions are... filled with demands.”
“You have had many and great sadnesses, which passed. And you say that even this passing was hard for you and put you out of sorts. But, please, consider whether these great sadnesses have not rather gone right through the center of yourself? Whether much in you has not altered, whether you have not somewhere, at some point of your being, undergone a change when you were sad?”
“Fame, that public destruction of one in process of becoming, into whose building-ground the mob breaks, displacing his stones.”
“Nothing can be sadder or more profound than to see a thousand things for the first and last time.”
“In this way, his unhappy soul struggled with its anguish. Eighteen hundred years before this unfortunate man, the mysterious Being, in whom all the sanctities and all the sufferings of humanity come together, He too, while the olive trees trembled in the fierce breath of the Infinite, had brushed away the fearful cup that appeared before him, streaming with shadow and running over with darkness, in the star-filled depths. (pg. 236)”
“The miserable's name is Man; he is agonizing in all climes, and he is groaning in all languages.”
“There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering--a hell of boredom.”
“Marius was of the temperament that sinks into grief and remains there; Cosette was of the sort that plunges in and comes out again.”
“Different phases of your life have different levels of deep, traumatizing heartbreak, and in this period of my life, my heart was not irreparably broken. So it’s not as boy-centric of an album, because my life hasn’t been boy-centric.”
“I wanted us to have a friendly relationship [with Kanye West]. He promised to play the song for me, but he never did.”
“I love the sad songs with their maudlin, self-deprecating, almost funny lyrics. As an Englishman, they make a lot of sense.”