#sadness

He looked at her as a man might look at a faded flower he had plucked, in which it was difficult for him to trace the beauty that had made him pick and so destroy it ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#despair #leo-tolstoy #love #sadness #beauty

Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life. ↗

— Henry Van Dyke

#comes #critic #dismal #every #every man

In my deepest parts of sadness, I'm always making a joke or being sarcastic. ↗

— Lea Thompson

#being #deepest #i #joke #making

Crying is cleansing. There's a reason for tears, happiness or sadness. ↗

— Dionne Warwick

#crying #happiness #reason #sadness #tears

The last day of shooting, there were tears. It was this family that's grown together over the years. Many of us have worked on it since the beginning, so there's a sadness when we all go our separate ways. ↗

— David Heyman

#day #family #go #grown #last

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

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

I'm trying to make sure that there's comedy as well as sadness. It makes the sadness more memorable. ↗

— Rick Moody

#i #make #makes #memorable #more

I do believe that if you haven't learnt about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness. ↗

— Nana Mouskouri

#appreciate #believe #cannot #happiness #haven