#sadness

Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

#be happy #certain #change #constitute #departure

Tears are words that need to be written. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#sadness #writing #inspirational

Her face expressed suffering so deep that I will never forget it; her eyes radiated a deep sadness...Mrs. Folmer was oppressed by that special sadness, perhaps the most horrible torture, of those who had no idea what happened to their loved ones. ↗

— Diet Eman

#loved-ones #sadness #terror #torture #diet

God is in the sadness and the laughter, in the bitter and the sweet. ↗

— Neale Donald Walsch

#god #laughter #sadness #sweet

Carrie doesn't seem to talk about anything with sharp edges. Maybe she's afraid they might poke her and then she'd burst. ↗

— Lisa McMann

#sadness #wake #dreams

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