“I had a moment of clarity, saw the feeling in the heart of things, walked out to the garden crying.”
Sad feeling
Sad Quotes — page 257 of 475
“How sick i am! that thought Always comes to me with horror. Is it this strange for everybody? But such fugitive feelings have always been my metier.”
“Despair snuffs the sun from the firmament.”
“The basis of insincerity is the idealized image we hold of ourselves and wish to impose on others.”
“In my view, prescribing antidepressant drugs is too often a quick and easy substitute for developing treatment plans that address the totality of health concerns and lifestyle factors that have an impact on wellness, including emotional wellness.”
“The trouble with therapy is that it makes life go backwards.”
“I can only sign over everything, the house, the dog, the ladders, the jewels, the soul, the family tree, the mailbox. Then I can sleep. Maybe.”
“Once I was beautiful. Now I am myself, Counting this row and that row of moccasins Waiting on the silent shelf.”
“Father, you died once, salted down at fifty-nine, packed down like a big snow angel, wasn't that enough?”
“November is usually such a disagreeable month as if the year had suddenly found out she was growing old and could do nothing but weep and fret over it.”
“I had the most beautiful set of theories you ever knew when I started out as a schoolma'am, but every one of them has failed me at some pinch or another.”
“I did go into the Amazonian region of Brazil. They have prehistoric river fish that weigh in at around 600 pounds, which you don’t see anywhere else. And foods that cannot be exported or even found in other parts of Brazil.”
“One day, I watched the sun setting forty-four times......You know...when one is so terribly sad, one loves sunsets.”
“If the poor, for example, because they are more in number, divide among themselves the property of the rich,- is not this unjust? . . this law of confiscation clearly cannot be just.”
“Women smirk at baldness. How adorable would they find it if they began to lose their breasts in their late twenties? If both tits just shrunk up - unevenly I might add - and eventually turned into wine-cork nubs. Then it would be a different story. Then men would get the pity that they deserve. As far as I'm concerned, baldness is the male breast cancer only worse, because almost everyone gets it. True, it's not life threatening. Just social-life threatening. But in New York City, there is no difference.”
“As I sat in the hot, salty water, I thought, 'No wonder Mr. Bubble always gives me a urinary tract infection and hives.' Mr. Bubble was for common people. Mr. Bubble was for my so-called brother, their true child. I was a Vanderbilt. I should bathe in condiments and seasonings.”
“Where there is no justice there can be no secure peace.”
“There are some mosques with facilities for women; it's usually a back room with a back-door entrance.”
“People, he thought, were as hungry for a sight of joy as he had always been--for a moment's relief from that gray load of suffering which seemed so inexplicable and unnecessary. He had never been able to understand why men should be unhappy.”
“A little man makes a mistake and they hang him by the thumbs; the big ones become ambassadors.”