Sadness Quotes — Page 31

Poet

“On Man, on Nature, and on Human Life, Musing in solitude, I oft perceive Fair trains of images before me rise, Accompanied by feelings of delight Pure, or with no unpleasing sadness mixed.”

Men Sadness Solitude

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Umberto Eco

Writer, Philosopher, Literary Critic

“Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.”

Fate Destiny Sadness

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Salvador Plascencia

Author

“There would be no sequel to the sadness”

Would Be Sadness

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Victor Hugo

Novelist, Poet

“The sadness which reigned everywhere was but an excuse for unfailing kindness.”

Kindness Sadness

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Van Morrison

Singer-Songwriter

“Common one, my illuminated one, oh my high in the art of suffering. Take a walk with me.”

Art Suffering Sadness

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Tao Lin

Author and Poet

“I know,' said Erin, and described how she'd lately felt depressed in a new and scary way, which Paul also had felt lately and described as a sadness-based fear, immune to tone and interpretation, as if not meant for humans - more visceral than sadness, but unlike fear because it decreased heart rate and impaired the senses, causing everything to seem 'darker.”

Heart Sadness Scary

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Rainer Maria Rilke

Poet, Novelist

“Only those sadnesses are dangerous and bad which one carries about among people in order to drown them out.”

People Order Sadness

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Victor Hugo

Novelist, Poet

“She was sad with an obscure sadness of which she had not the secret herself. There was in her whole person the stupor of a life ended but never commenced.”

Secret Sadness Obscure

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essayist, Philosopher, Poet

“Nature always wears the colors of the spirit. To a man laboring under calamity, the heat of his own fire hath sadness in it.”

Men Nature Sadness

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Randall Mann

Poet

“I think I'm comfortable making myself, or my speaker, larger than life if I can then cut myself off at the ankles. The way, in "My Major Prize," the speaker does this drippy performance of sadness and poetry for some unnamed prize committee, only he lets us know that it's all a wry game.”

Thinking Cutting Sadness

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Virginia Woolf

Novelist

“There is a sadness at the back of life which some people do not attempt to mitigate. Entirely aware of their own standing in the shadow, and yet alive to every tremor and gleam of existence, there they endure.”

People Sadness Shadow

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Samuel Johnson

Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic

“We never do anything consciously for the last time without sadness of heart.”

Heart Lasts Sadness

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