#sadness

I am living in a nightmare, from which from time to time I wake in sleep. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#dreams #reality #sadness #dreams

Dying Is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

#depression #poetry #sadness #suicide #art

He watched the scene and thought of life; and (as always happened when he thought of life) he became sad. A gentle melancholy took possession of him. He felt how useless it was to struggle against fortune, this being the burden of wisdom which the ages had bequeathed him. ↗

— James Joyce

#sadness #wisdom #age

He gave everything to everybody. Except to me. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#anger #bitter #sadness #the-ones-we-leave-behind #anger

Behind these eyes there is a girl trapped within her pain – a girl feeling all the emotions of anger and sadness. She’s fighting for a way out.” (In her eyes, p. 39) ↗

— Chimnese Davids

#eyes #sadness #symbolism #anger

No reason to be angry. Anger just distracts from the all-encompassing sadness. ↗

— John Green

#sadness #anger

I wish I could say we all lived happily ever after. I can't. But I can say we lived. Our love for Nate lives, and he's left us this piece of himself in his art; it was his gift to us. We know him through his art, and I can take comfort in that. I guess the thing about high school is, it's the moment when you start to cross from a being a kid to being an adult, and this journey to know yourself begins. Nate's journey ended to early, and I thought I had to run away to some far-off land to start mine. But, for now, it seems to me that I have enough to explore right here. There's a whole continent to discover in myself, and I know that it's love - love for my parents, my friends, my brother, and my art - that will guide me. Love will be my map. ↗

— Lisa Ann Sandell

#cora #experiences #fondness #friendship #guidance

Man, I was drowning in sadness. And Angelina, she lifted me right up out of there. ↗

— Billy Bob Thornton

#drowning #i #lifted #man #me

...to make art is to realize another's sadness within, realize the hidden sadness in other people's lives, to feel sad with and for a stranger. ↗

— Marianne Wiggins

#empathy #sadness #art

I was never able to get through Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. I've never been able to make it through. And I love the Smashing Pumpkins, they're one of my favorite bands ever, but I've never been able to listen to the whole thing all the way through. ↗

— John Wozniak

#bands #been #ever #favorite #get