#sad

Where do we record the passing of wildlife? Who mourns the silent deaths of the small? ↗

— O.R. Melling

#environment #sad #death

We can't be sad for her," she murmured. "Only for ourselves at having to say good-bye. ↗

— Dorothy Love

#good-bye #sad #death

...Come on let’s see the degree.” Katherine unrolled her scroll displaying a long declaration in Latin affixed with a red seal proclaiming her a Master of Art. “Imagine working for years to obtain a piece of paper we can hardly read ” Katherine joked. “And to officially declare you have talent ” Suzy returned. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#college-degree #credentials #degree #funny #humor

Death was an unfeeling bitch.It didnt matter who you were, who loved you, it struck mercilessly and without discrimination ↗

— A.Meredith Walters

#sad-but-true #death

I'm living under water. Everything seems slow and far away. I know there's a world up there, a sunlit quick world where time runs like dry sand through an hourglass, but down here, where I am, air and sound and time and feeling are thick and dense. ↗

— Audrey Niffenegger

#travel

Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain ↗

— Marquis de Sade

#liberty

Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness? ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#loneliness #sadness #people

So many times it seemed like there were chances to stop things before they started. Or even stop them in midstream. But it was even worse when you knew in that very moment that there was still time to save yourself, and yet you couldn't even budge. ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#save #chance

If you can't get what you want, you end up doing something else, just to get some relief. Just to keep from going crazy. Because when you're sad enough, you look for ways to fill you up. ↗

— Laura Pritchett

#crazy #laura #pritchett #sadness #sky

There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, 'There now, hang on, you'll get over it.' Sadness is more or less like a head cold- with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#sadness #person