#sadness

I often wish I'd got on better with your father,' he said. But he never liked anyone who--our friends,' said Clarissa; and could have bitten her tongue for thus reminding Peter that he had wanted to marry her. Of course I did, thought Peter; it almost broke my heart too, he thought; and was overcome with his own grief, which rose like a moon looked at from a terrace, ghastly beautiful with light from the sunken day. I was more unhappy than I've ever been since, he thought. And as if in truth he were sitting there on the terrace he edged a little towards Clarissa; put his hand out; raised it; let it fall. There above them it hung, that moon. She too seemed to be sitting with him on the terrace, in the moonlight. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#imagery #love #marriage #melancholy #moon

Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#health #humor #poison #sadness #soul

We're always experiencing joy or sadness. But there are lots of people who've closed down. And there are times in one's life when one has to close down just to regroup. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#close #closed #down #experiencing #joy

The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#incomplete #life #never #often #sadness

I'm happy, I would say that I'm one of the happiest people I know but I've certainly had periods of profound sadness, depression and heartache and those are the kind of things that are interesting to me to write about. ↗

— Richard Marx

#certainly #depression #had #happiest #happiest people

Well, the musicals give emphasis to love, longing, melancholy, sadness. All of that is always there. ↗

— Ismail Merchant

#emphasis #give #longing #love #melancholy

First, accept sadness. Realize that without losing, winning isn't so great. ↗

— Alyssa Milano

#first #great #losing #realize #sadness

Experiencing sadness and anger can make you feel more creative, and by being creative, you can get beyond your pain or negativity. ↗

— Yoko Ono

#being #beyond #creative #experiencing #feel

I saw the world in black and white instead of the vibrant colours and shades I knew existed. ↗

— Katie McGarry

#grief #sadness #grief

In a world where there is so much sadness and so much to be afraid of, good things do happen to people. Romance is still something we can find even if we're not consciously looking for it. ↗

— Kathleen Quinlan

#consciously #even #find #good #good things