Being Sad quotes
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I have always been a softie, and I fight it with every fiber of my being. Sadly, my being's fibers need to hit the gym.
-- Aisha Tyler -
Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.
-- Albert Schweitzer -
Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them.
-- Albert Schweitzer -
Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
-- Anais Nin -
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What do you know about being sad?' 'I know you don't need a reason.
-- Aryn Kyle -
For a moment, I thought of the word happy and it was a word that just, well, it felt like it was visiting me. I knew it wouldn’t last for very long and I’d be sad again and then it would be worse because it’s one thing to be sad and it’s another thing to be sad once you’ve been happy. Being sad after you’ve been happy is the worst thing in the world.
-- Benjamin Alire Saenz -
What's really sad is that a lot of very talented people are being forced to do things that are very embarrassing and I don't intend to be one of them.
-- Boy George -
I'm so glad I spent 10 years being sad and lonely.
-- Caitlin Moran -
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Wholeness is not achieved by cutting off a portion of one’s being, but by integration of the contraries.
-- Carl Jung -
The world isn't perfect, and some days it wears you down. You can either accept that, and face it, and be a help to others instead of a hindrance. Or you can decide the rules are too tough and they shouldn't apply to you, and you can ignore them and make things harder for everybody else. Sometimes life is about being sad and doing things anyway. Sometimes it's about being hurt and doing things anyway. The point isn't perfection. The point is doing it anyway.
-- Chloe Neill -
A photograph doesn't gain weight or lose weight, or change from being happy to being sad. It's frozen. You can use it, then recycle it.
-- Chuck Close -
Does Being Happy simply Create More Time, in the way that Being Sad, as we all know, slows time and thickens it, like cornstarch in a sauce?),
-- Claire Messud -
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That is all I want in life: for this pain to seem purposeful.
-- Elizabeth Wurtzel -
I miss the comfort in being sad,
-- Frances Farmer -
It is ridiculous that I have so many shoes I don't wear. I worry that they're sitting there, being sad.
-- Graham Coxon -
All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.
-- Jean de la Bruyere -
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Being part of the natural world reminds me that innocence isn't ever lost completely; we just need to maintain our goodness to regain it.
-- Jewel -
I am not sad, he would repeat to himself over and over, I am not sad. As if he might one day convince himself. Or fool himself. Or convince others -- The only thing worse than being sad is for others to know that you are sad.
-- Jonathan Safran Foer -
Ive never thought of my characters as being sad. On the contrary, they are full of life. They didnt choose tragedy. Tragedy chose them.
-- Juliette Binoche -
Fashion is that thing that saved me from being sad.
-- Lady Gaga -
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You need to try to master the ability to feel sad without actually being sad.
-- Laurie Anderson -
Nostalgia is a way of remembering people and places and things, and wishing things hadn't changed. It has a sweetness to it. Sadness is just--well--being sad.
-- Linda Lael Miller -
Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being.
-- Mahatma Gandhi -
I never understood the point of being sad when I could choose to be happy
-- Megan McCafferty -
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Being sad with the right people is better than being happy with the wrong ones.
-- Philippos Syrigos -
Someone once accused me of being like Eliot Ness. I sad no sir, I'm not E.N., but I can promise you that I'm not Al Capone!
-- Robert Stack -
As one gets older being sad and miserable can become a bit of a habit. To counteract this, she suggests making a point of savoring such things as the tastiness of a piece of fruit, or other small things we might have been prone to overlook during our younger, busier days.
-- Rumer Godden -
But listen to me. For one moment quit being sad. Hear blessings dropping their blossoms around you.
-- Rumi -
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There's a word in Japanese for being sad in the springtime - a whole word for just being sad - about how pretty the flowers are and how soon they're going to die.
-- Sarah Ruhl -
The sad events that occur in my life are the sad events that happen to everybody, with losing friends and family, but that is a natural occurrence, as natural as being born.
-- Sergio Aragones -
Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.
-- Soren Kierkegaard -
The best thing for being sad ... is to learn something.
-- T. H. White -
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Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad.
-- Victor Hugo -
Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.
-- Victor Hugo -
As we have said, robust souls are sometimes almost, but not entirely, overthrown by strokes of misfortune....Despair has steps leading upward. From total depression we rise to despondency, from despondency to affliction, from affliction to melancholy. Melancholy is a twilight state in which suffering transmutes into a somber joy....Melancholy is the enjoyment of being sad.
-- Victor Hugo -
Being mad is activating. Being sad can lead to hopelessness. I'm not hopeless. I'm very hopeful.
-- Jayni Chase -
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Americans should know that Iranians are just as decent, human and rational as other human beings. Sadly, the mainstream media in the U.S. regularly fails to recognize and reflect this.
-- Mohammad Marandi -
You're the prettiest when you're happy. Don't use all your energy being sad.
-- Burnell Taylor -
It's, like, you know, if you're sad, it's a way of connecting with other people. And we - a lot of times we sort of feel embarrassed by being sad, and we go off by ourselves to hide and cry by ourselves. But, really, it's a way of re-establishing relationship.
-- Pete Docter
