Sad Quotes - Page 16

Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.

Walking alone is not difficult but when we have walked a mile worth a thousand years with someone then coming back alone is what is difficult.

It's easy to cry when you realize that everyone you love will reject you or die.

Pornography is the essential sexuality of male power: of hate, of ownership, of hierarchy; of sadism, of dominance.

Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.

Some say it is best not to go near the center of time. Life is a vessel of sadness, but is noble to live life and without time there is no life. Others disagree. They would rather have an eternity of contentment, even if that eternity were fixed and frozen, like a butterfly mounted in a case.

As I've gotten older, I find I am able to be nourished more by sorrow and to distinguish it from depression.

Live with it. You live with pleasure, don't you? Why don't you live with suffering completely? Can you live with it in the sense of not escaping from it? What takes place? Watch. The mind is very clear, sharp. It is faced with the fact. The very suffering transformed into passion is enormous. From that arises a mind that can never be hurt. Full stop. That is the secret.

In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.

One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often.

If teardrops were pennies and heartaches were gold, I'd have all the treasures my pockets could hold.

In the Book of Life, The answers aren't in the back.

You put a tuxedo on me, it's like putting a saddle on a hog.

Sadness diminishes a man's powers

It is such a secret place, the land of tears.

The thought of a happiness that comes from outside the person, brings him sadness. But the recognition in the value of one's will and the freedom granted by its uplifting, brings great joy.

The instruments of darkness tell us truths.

Can't you tell when you're with someone who's listening? She hears you, really hears you. He hears the sadness in your tone or catches your joy. Be a listener, to music, to life, to others, to God. Life is noisy, but there is music in every heartbeat. God is waiting to bring joy and peace to the confusion of our days.

If we were not so single-minded about keeping our lives moving and for once could do nothing, perhaps a huge silence might interrupt this sadness of never understanding ourselves and of threatening ourselves with death Perhaps the world can teach us as when everything seems dead but later proves to be alive.

We can do no great things-only small things with great love.

Your body is free but your heart is in prison. To release your heart, you simply reverse the process which locked it up. First you begin to listen for messages from your heart-messages you may have been ignoring since childhood. Next you must take the daring, risky step of expressing your heart in the outside world. . . . As you learn to live by heart, every choice you make will become another way of telling your story. . . . It is the way you were meant to exist. If you stop to listen, you'll realize that your heart has been telling you so all along.

Rabindranath Tagore writes that the song he wanted to sing has never happened because he spent his days "stringing and unstringing" his instrument. Whenever I read these lines a certain sadness enters my soul. I get so preoccupied with the details and pressure of my schedule, with the hurry and worry of life, that I miss the song of goodness which is waiting to be sung through me.

It is impossible for that man to despair who remembers that his Helper is omnipotent.

Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.

Do not apologize for crying. Without this emotion, we are only robots.