Quotes On Feelings Of Sadness And Melancholy

Quotes On Feelings Of Sadness and Melancholy

 

“Sadness was so claustrophobic.”

 ― Kiran Desai, The Inheritance of Loss

“It was such a relief to be able to sob and have someone know all the reasons why.”

― Rachel Hawkins, Rebel Belle 

“I wish to weep
but sorrow is
stupid.
I wish to believe
but belief is a
graveyard.”

― Charles Bukowski, What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire

“It’s how I fill the time when nothing’s happening. Thinking too much, flirting with melancholy.”

― Tim Winton, Breath

“I stumbled out into the courtyard to try to flee my misery, but of course we can never flee the misery that is within us.”

― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha


“Eyes so young, so full of pain ... Two lonely drops of winter rain ... And no tear could these eyes sustain ... For too much had they seen.”
― Shaun Hick

“About time, what I really learned from studying English is: time is different with timing.
I understand the difference of these two words so well. I understand falling in love with the right person in the wrong timing could be the greatest sadness in a person's entire life.”

― Xiaolu Guo, A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers

“After a while, though, even the deepest sorrow faltered, even the most penetrating despair lost its scalpel edge.”

― Richard Matheson, I Am Legend and Other Stories

“The trouble with a great sadness is that it doesn't fit inside your body.”

― Manuel Rivas, Books Burn Badly

 “Grief, no matter how you try to cater to its wail, has a way of fading away.”

― V.C. Andrews, Flowers in the Attic

“In a world where happiness has become a social duty and sadness a public offense, life opens unrepentantly into a kaleidoscopic masquerade and a muddling carousel of faking. ("Even if the world goes down, my mobile will save me" )”

― Erik Pevernagie

“Tears are handy for washing away troubling and sad feelings. But when you grow up, you'll learn that there are things so sad, they can never be washed away by tears. That there are painful memories that should never be washed away. So people who are truly strong laugh when they want to cry. They endure all of the pain and sorrow while laughing with everybody else.”

― Hideaki Sorachi

“Sometimes I wish life was written pencil so we could erase it and write it all over again.”

― Thisuri Wanniarachchi, COLOMBO STREETS

“I was wishing I was invisible. Outside, the leaves were falling to the ground, and I was infinitely sad, sad down to my bones. I was sad for Phoebe and her parents and Prudence and Mike, sad for the leaves that were dying, and sad for myself, for something I had lost.”

― Sharon Creech, Walk Two Moons

“Because pieces of your heart clearly weigh more when they're sitting shattered at the bottom of your stomach.”

― Heather Brewer, First Kill

“The fruit of empty hopes is more bitter than the saddest truth.”

― Angel Wagenstein, Isaac's Torah

“I'm pretty lost in becoming all this frost. Bitter, like Winter. Strung-out like a string of pearls.”

― Ashly Lorenzana 

 

“How do you file a restraining order against sadness?”

― Alex Adams, White Horse 

“My insides feel like they are crumbling like a towering JENGA game. I lose.”

― Stephanie Campbell, Grounding Quinn

“Not easy to state the change you made.
If I'm alive now, I was dead,
Though, like a stone, unbothered by it.”

― Sylvia Plath, The Collected Poems

“May be its mine bad-luck
Or yours not to get me
But I still have hope
Of being yours”

― Hasil Paudyal, Blended Words

“The sky cries for those filled with sadness”

― Sonya Watson, The Tide Breaker

“But as the years passed, he missed her more, not less, and his need for her became a cut that would not scar over, would not stop leaking.”

― Dennis Lehane, Shutter Island

“Im dying everyday
My breakfast are cigarettes and coffee
My lunch is depression
My snacks are regrets
My dinner are memories and anger
My night is non stoping tears
Sleep is my death
Waking up the next day and here we go again dying everyday”

― Ali hassan hasan   

“I was the one with the open wound, and the river waters turned red when I bathed in them. My sadness is greater than the heavens.”

― Laura Restrepo, The Angel of Galilea

“I was the one with the open wound, and the river waters turned red when I bathed in them. My sadness is greater than the heavens.”

― Laura Restrepo, The Angel of Galilea

“Can we account for instinct?' said Monte Cristo. 'Are there not some places where we seem to breathe sadness? — why, we cannot tell. It is a chain of recollections — an idea which carries you back to other times, to other places — which, very likely, have no connection with the present time and place.”

― Alexander Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“Like love, mourning affects the world—and the worldly—with unreality, with importunity. I resist the world, I suffer from what it demands of me, from its demands. The world increases my sadness, my dryness, my confusion, my irritation, etc. The world depresses me.”

― Roland Barthes, Mourning Diary   

“I think a lot about killing myself, not like a point on a map but rather like a glowing exit sign at a show that’s never been quite bad enough to make me want to leave. See, when I’m up I don’t kill myself because, holy shit, there’s so much left to do. When I’m down I don’t kill myself because then the sadness would be over, and the sadness is my old paint under the new. The sadness is the house fire or the broken shoulder: I’d still be me without it but I’d be so boring.”

― Neil Hilborn, The Future

“Being unhappy alone isn't all that much fun, but what's even tougher is playing one's part without forgetting one's lines, coping with other people's compassion, their comments, being there with the right line when they give the cue.”

― Francois Maspero, Cat's Grin 

“I wear a necklace of hope with pearly beads. When I met you, it broke, and the beads spilled all over the floor, into the gutters.”

― Karen Quan, Write like no one is reading

“She saw that he knew what loneliness was, that he understood why it might be raining inside a person even when the sun shone, that sadness needed no immediate cause.”

― Jan-Philipp Sendker, The Art of Hearing Heartbeats

“I shall never be very merry or very sad, for I am more prone to analyse than to feel.”

― H.P. Lovecraft

“A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“[A] person whose head is bowed and whose eyes are heavy cannot look at the light.”

― Christine de Pizan, Ditié de Jehanne d'Arc

“Usually she ordered a cup of coffee and a cup of tea, as well as a brownie, propping up her sadness with chocolate and caffeine so that it became an anxiety.”

― Lorrie Moore, Like Life 

“A grief without a pang, void, dark and drear,
A drowsy, stifled, unimpassioned grief,
Which finds no natural outlet or relief,
In word, or sigh, or tear.”

― Samuel Taylor Coleridge 

“Maybe this is the point: to embrace the core sadness of life without toppling headlong into it, or assuming it will define your days.”

― Gail Caldwell, Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship

“Success and failure can both make you lose appetite and concentration, don't let it bother or over-excite you, just think them away as a mere thing that had just happened, and get along with your life.”

― Michael Bassey Johnson
  

“A lesson for all of us is that for every loss, there is victory, for every sadness, there is joy, and when you think you’ve lost everything, there is hope.”

― Geraldine Solon, The Assignment 

“You have entered an abnormal, lonely, and unwelcome new world where you are nothing but an island of sadness.”

― Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, On Grief and Grieving: Finding the Meaning of Grief Through the Five Stages of Loss

“That feeling you get when you want to tell some one you love them, and there is no one there..”

― Melody Carstairs

“It’s difficult for me to imagine the rest of my life without you. But I suppose I don’t have to imagine it... I just have to live it”

― Ranata Suzuki

“Sometimes I'm so deeply buried under self-reproaches that I long for a word of comfort to help me dig myself out again.”

― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

“A flower bloomed already wilting. Beginning its life with an early ending.”

― RJ Gonzales, Mundahlia

“Away from the bright motion of the party, she carried her sadness like a dark stone clenched in her palm.”

― Kim Edwards, The Memory Keeper's Daughter

“It was only when the salt water of my tears ran into my cuts and made them sting
that I discovered I was crying.”

― Marian Keyes, Anybody Out There?

“Man cries, his tears dry up and run out. So he becomes a devil, reduced to a monster.”
― Kouta Hirano “Man cries, his tears dry up and run out. So he becomes a devil, reduced to a monster.”

― Kouta Hirano

“Ceaseless as the interminable voices of the bell-cricket, all night till dawn my tears flow.”

― Murasaki Shikibu, The Tale of Genji

 “Expect more get less and feel sadness Or expect less get more and feel happiness”

― Vijay Dhameliya

“I can't even tell you what else I imagined. I can only humiliate myself to such a degree; at a certain point it becomes humorous, and this story is not meant to be humorous. This story is meant to winch your ribs open and tamper with your heart. This story is meant to make you realize that your chances of happiness in this world are terribly slim if you lack a fine imagination.”

― Heidi Julavits, The Effect of Living Backwards

“Our own front door can be a wonderful thing, or a sight we dread; rarely is it only a door.”

― Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

“If he does go, the change will be doleful. Suppose he should be absent spring, summer, and autumn: how joyless sunshine and fine days will seem!”

― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“I have been sadder than any man could be: for nothing in the world was made for me.”

― Patricia Highsmith