#sad

. . . And as fall turned to winter, the Darlington peach trees started dropping their leaves again, gently, like they were letting them go. It wasnt the same as giving them up. It wasnt the same as losing them. ↗

— Jodi Lynn Anderson

#meaningful #sad #inspirational

You'll never be truly alone till you've lost your self, then you'll really be lonley. ~ Tom's Mam. ↗

— Joseph Delany

#sad-but-true #inspirational

A lesson for all of us is that for every loss, there is victory, for every sadness, there is joy, and when you think you’ve lost everything, there is hope. ↗

— Geraldine Solon

#inspirational #loss #pain #sadness #inspirational

As far as Saddam Hussein being a great military strategist, he is neither a strategist, nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general, nor is he a soldier. Other than that, he's a great military man, I want you to know that. ↗

— Norman Schwarzkopf

#as far as #being #far #general #great

They're indifference should not be the cause of your non-existence. ↗

— Flor Hernandez

#sadness #inspirational

He had never smoked but then had he ever loved? Life made him love and love made him smoke. ↗

— Faraaz Kazi

#sad #life

Watching my sister glowing I wonder why, if the sun is so warm, it doesn't dry her tears. Sunlight is supposed to do that, I think, sunlight should dry all the rain. ↗

— Jillian Madoff

#inspirational #sadness #inspirational

Isso é bem outra coisa", replicou Alberto, "porque um homem que se deixa arrastar por uma paixão violenta perde a faculdade de refletir e deve ser considerado como um ébrio, como um demente. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#romance #sadness #inspirational

The world,' he said, 'is not a wish-granting factory. ↗

— John Green

#john-green #sad #the-fault-in-our-stars #inspirational

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting. ↗

— George Orwell

#bound #disregard #fair #fair play #hatred