#sadness

Sadness and silence, two things I keep in jars in my basement that I label “Warning: Do not open. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#sadness #silence #humor

Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day. ↗

— Markus Zusak

#sadness #stoicism #imagination

In the silence, she felt the past and the present shift and mix, but that was a mirage. There was no way to comfort the lost boy he'd been back then. But she had the grown male. She had him right in her arms, and for a brief moment of whimsy, she imagined that she was never, ever going to let him go. ↗

— J.R. Ward

#love #sadness #imagination

The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little. ↗

— Max Lerner

#change #fifty #little #much #real

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

I think a certain amount of anger has been a fuel of mine, if you want - but also some sort of sadness, and plain mischief, of course. ↗

— Siouxsie Sioux

#amount #anger #been #certain #course

The older I get, the more I see there are these crevices in life where things fall in and you just can't reach them to pull them back out. So you can sit next to them and weep or you can get up and move forward. You have to stop worrying about who's not here and start worrying about who is. ↗

— Alex Witchel

#sadness #age

It was that sort of sleep in which you wake every hour and think to yourself that you have not been sleeping at all; you can remember dreams that are like reflections, daytime thinking slightly warped. ↗

— Kim Stanley Robinson

#insomnia #restlessness #sadness #sleep #dreams

My purpose, my whole life, had been to love him and be with him, to make him happy. I didn’t want to cause any unhappiness now—in that way, I decided it was probably better than he wasn’t here to see this, though I missed him so much at that moment the ache of it was as bad as the strange pains in my belly. ↗

— W. Bruce Cameron

#dogs-loyalty #love #love-from-a-dog #loyal #sad

The only sadnesses that are dangerous and unhealthy are the ones that we carry around in public in order to drown them out with the noise; like diseases that are treated superficially and foolishly, they just withdraw and after a short interval break out again all the more terribly; and gather inside us and are life, are life that is unlived, rejected, lost, life that we can die of. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#loneliness #sadness #life