#sadness

Cinema is a mixed form. L'Avventura has characters, it has social context, and these things are not trivial. Its plot is the disappearance of a disappearance. Possibly the most frightening plot imaginable. Forgetting the dead, whom all of history tells us we must remember. But what makes movies themselves, rather than novels or plays, is something else. What is it if not the film medium itself? The purity of the visual, which lies in the silence of the stilled image. The freeze frame. The deeply, deeply silent image. Like death. The image in itself in its silent purity reaches--it reaches!--for the purity of death. ↗

— Frank Lentricchia

#frank-lentricchia #michelangeo-antonioni #the-sadness-of-antonioni #death

You get used to sadness, growing up in the mountains, I guess. ↗

— Loretta Lynn

#growing #growing up #guess #i #mountains

Walt Disney was not a merchant of sadness. ↗

— James MacArthur

#merchant #sadness #walt #walt disney

I think often sadness is a great place to get songs from. ↗

— Sarah McLachlan

#great #i #i think #often #place

There is something sinister, something quite biographical about what I do - but that part is for me. It's my personal business. I think there is a lot of romance, melancholy. There's a sadness to it, but there's romance in sadness. I suppose I am a very melancholy person. ↗

— Alexander McQueen

#am #biographical #business #i #i am

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

A tragedy need not have blood and death; it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy. ↗

— Jean Racine

#death #enough #filled #majestic #need